Supporting Geography and GIS Education in Libraries Now and into the Future

IF 0.3 Q4 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Journal of Map & Geography Libraries Pub Date : 2020-09-01 DOI:10.1080/15420353.2021.1965404

Jessica G. Benner, E. Slayton

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As library educators with a spatial focus, we are always reframing how we analyze the world around us, and what skills or knowledge we need to instruct others on how to do the same. Addressing spatial thinking within the walls of libraries is not a new idea, and indeed has been covered by previous special issues of this journal (Bidney 2019). However, with the constant change in GIS technology and an increased focus on these skills by students and faculty from departments outside of geography, more librarians are grappling with how to best develop and deliver educational content related to core concepts and ever-changing technologies. We work to constantly develop and redevelop pedagogy materials and instruction opportunities to best address the growing need to engage with spatial thinking. This issue brings together works by library educators from both academic and public libraries, to showcase programs that broaden our communities’ understanding of mapping and spatial research. The title of this editorial and special issue is quite ambitious. We dispatched a call to library educators teaching in informal settings asking them to describe pedagogical approaches, research, or the construction of materials to promote spatial literacy or GIS education through library instruction and/or outreach. We received a balanced set of articles that illustrate the variety of formal and informal GIS education happening in libraries. From focused lesson plans and a GIS Day program description to workshops, full workshop series, university courses, and community-based events, this issue provides some examples of the role that libraries are playing in teaching people about geographic concepts, spatial literacy, basic and advanced GIS skills, and spatial data management. Libraries teach people of all ages about geographic practices, maps, data, and spatial information. However, that does not always mean we have a clear idea about what services or instruction we need to offer. In fact, this is an open question for the community posed in a recent editorial https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2021.1965404

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支持图书馆现在和未来的地理和地理信息系统教育

作为以空间为中心的图书馆教育工作者，我们总是在重新定义我们如何分析周围的世界，以及我们需要什么技能或知识来指导他人如何做同样的事情。在图书馆的墙壁内解决空间思维并不是一个新想法，本杂志的前几期特刊确实已经涵盖了这一点(Bidney 2019)。然而，随着地理信息系统技术的不断变化，以及地理学系以外的学生和教师对这些技能的日益关注，越来越多的图书馆员正在努力解决如何最好地开发和提供与核心概念和不断变化的技术相关的教育内容。我们致力于不断开发和重新开发教学材料和教学机会，以最好地满足日益增长的空间思维需求。这期杂志汇集了来自学术图书馆和公共图书馆的图书馆教育工作者的作品，展示了扩大我们社区对地图和空间研究理解的项目。这篇社论和特刊的标题很有野心。我们向在非正式环境中教学的图书馆教育工作者发出了电话，要求他们描述通过图书馆教学和/或外展来促进空间素养或GIS教育的教学方法、研究或材料构建。我们收到了一组平衡的文章，说明了图书馆中发生的各种正式和非正式的GIS教育。从重点课程计划和地理信息系统日项目描述到研讨会、完整的研讨会系列、大学课程和社区活动，本期提供了图书馆在教授人们地理概念、空间素养、基本和高级地理信息系统技能以及空间数据管理方面发挥作用的一些例子。图书馆向各个年龄段的人传授地理实践、地图、数据和空间信息。然而，这并不总是意味着我们清楚地知道我们需要提供什么样的服务或指导。事实上，这是社区在最近的一篇社论https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2021.1965404中提出的一个开放性问题

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Journal of Map & Geography Libraries INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-

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83.30%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Map & Geography Libraries is a multidisciplinary publication that covers international research and information on the production, procurement, processing, and utilization of geographic and cartographic materials and geospatial information. Papers submitted undergo a rigorous peer-review process by professors, researchers, and practicing librarians with a passion for geography, cartographic materials, and the mapping and spatial sciences. The journal accepts original theory-based, case study, and practical papers that substantially advance an understanding of the mapping sciences in all of its forms to support users of map and geospatial collections, archives, and similar institutions.