Yesterday I came across a podcast by Directions Magazine based on their GeoInspirations column. I got a chance to listen to it on the commute to work this morning and it was full of great information on Geospatial Information Technology and its emerging role in libraries.
The episode, entitled "GeoInspirations: Stace Maples -- Archaeologist, Librarian, Tattoo Artist & GIS Evangelist" delved in to Maples round about route to GIS. It was quite an interesting journey from tattoo shop owner to archaeologist to GIS. What really caught my attention was the point he made about what a perfect fit GIS is for libraries.
In Maples experience, after working a decade at Yale University and now four years in as the Geospatial Manager at The Stanford Geospatial Center, is that GIS has a reach to all areas of academia. Geography is, as he puts it, the bacon of the world -- it makes everything better. Libraries fit so perfectly, because they serve so many different people in different fields.
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