This is a place for anyone interested in the role of libraries in geography, GIS education or spatial data information literacy to contribute to shared knowledge.

Use this section to share tutorials and guides.

10 New ArcGIS Pro Lesson Activities, Learn Paths, and Migration Reflections
A new set of 10 ArcGIS Pro lessons empowers GIS practitioners, instructors, and students with essential skills to find, acquire, format, and analyze public domain spatial data to make decisions. Blog post links to the lessons themselves as well as the reflections from the authors on moving the lessons from ArcGIS Desktop to ArcGIS Pro. (Joe Kerski and Jill Clark, May 2020)

Story Map Tutorial
A tutorial on how to construct story maps, and the special features within, itself made and run in story maps. Content is in part based on ESRI website guides, Emma Slayton / [email protected]

Mapping for the Urban Humanities
Tutorials and Resources for Summer 2019 Mapping for the Urban Humanities Faculty Bootcamp at the Center for Spatial Research. Instructors: Bernadette Baird-Zars, Eric Glass, Leah Meisterlin.

Aerial Photographs Tutorial
This tutorial will teach you a basic understanding of how to use and interpret historical aerial photographs (air photos), Christopher Thiry.

Geospatial Workshop
Data Carpentries lesson on geospatial data concepts, an introduction to R for learners working with geospatial data, and how to open, work with, and plot vector and raster-format spatial data in R.

Leaflet Tutorial
In this tutorial, we will use basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (specifically, the Leaflet JavaScript library) to create a series of progressively complex web maps.

Map Box Tutorials
Find step-by-step guides to help you get started with Map Box or take your project to the next level.

Something About Maps
The cartographic community thrives on a culture of sharing knowledge, and I am happy to play a small part in that culture by offering some practical advice from my mapmaking experience. Daniel Huffman.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Tutorials and Help Resources
Collection of tutorials from the MIT Libraries, including finding data, working with census data, mapprojection, geocoding, and much more!

QGIS Tutorials
Introduction to QGIS Tutorial from Washington University in St. Louis University Libraries.

GIS Tutorials from Creighton Univerisity Digital Humanities
Written for QGIS. Topics include working with NHGIS and Joins, Select by Attribute and Export, Vector Layers and Buffers and Census Data and Choropleths.

Cartinal
The Leventhal Map & Education Center's guides & documentation pages. Geared towards public audiences, with tutorials and guides focused on open software environments. Also includes documentation for the Map Center's GIS & DH projects.

Maps & Geospatial: Case Study Applications Across Disciplines
This guide from Penn State provides resources, examples, and references arranged by college and discipline as starting points for users to explore how geospatial information is used in their respective fields.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS): Tutorials and Help Resources
Collection of tutorials from the MIT Libraries, including finding data, working with census data, mapprojection, geocoding, and much more!

Map Club at Columbia
Map Club at Columbia, provided by Research Data Services, is for those who want to learn more about mapping, spatial data and GIS. Open to beginners and experts, the club is a space to experiment with web-based libraries or frameworks and GIS tools.

GIScience / GIS / Geospatial Instructional Resources
This collection emphasizes Open Educational Resources for the teaching and learning - about and with - GIScience, GIS, and related geospatial and mapping technologies.

Teach GIS
TeachGIS.org is a reference website offered by the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science. A referatory, it is designed to point you to useful tutorials, data sources, and publications relevant to the teaching of geographic information science (GIScience) in higher education. It is a beta project seeking feedback and contributions from the community of GIScience educators.

GeoDa Software
LUC ANSELIN’S RECORDED LECTURES ON YOUTUBE

Use this section to point to datasets you have found useful in teaching environments. Feel free to comment on how you used them, and what the outcomes, successes, challenges were.

MIT GeoWeb
MIT Featured Data Collections.

GIS Vector Data
GIS Vector data from East View Geospatial, focusing on plug and play data sets for novice and expert GIS professionals.

Historical Maps, Archival Resources & Boundary files
Resource list from Creighton University Digital Humanities course, Mapping History 317. Great list of international historic census data.

We Mapped This City: Centering Health Resources and Engagement Around Community Assets
Covers the basics and potential applications of community asset mapping.

Mapping for the Urban Humanities: A Summer Institute
Mapping for the Urban Humanities is a six day skills-building workshop in critical cartography, designed to expand the disciplinary locations within which spatial knowledge in the urban humanities is produced and interpreted. Workshop participants will be introduced to open-source mapping software, QGIS, to methods of data collection and creation, and to approaches and concepts in critical spatial analysis that they can incorporate into their research and teaching.

QGIS Practicum Course
This introductory manual for learning GIS with QGIS is used in the day-long workshop held at Baruch each semester, which is open to Baruch and CUNY affiliates. For more information and registration visit the practicum page on the GIS Research Guide. Anyone and everyone is welcome to use this tutorial for personal or classroom use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license. However, you may not copy and re-host this material on another website.

Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research from ICPSR
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) has offered the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research as a complement to its data services.

Geo4Lib Camp
Geo4Lib Camp is run by Stanford University, and through this link you can access information about the event held in 2020, which is a baseline for other offerings of this kind.

Use this section to point to great books or articles.

Data Information Literacy: Librarians, Data, and the Education of a New Generation of Researchers
Carlson, J., & Johnston, L.R. (Eds.). e-book, Purdue University Press, 2015. Recommended by Belle Lipton -- great studies and language about gaps in student data info literacy competencies and how library skillsets and mission perfectly aligns with addressing these issues

Core Competencies
Pulled from Carlson & Johnston

Curriculum Data Deep Dive: Identifying Data Literacies in the Disciplines
Klenke, Schultz, Tokarz & Azadbakht at the University of Reno, 2020-02-03

New Information Literacy Instruction
View chapter 10, Patrick Ragains and M. Sandra Wood

Degree outcomes and national calibration: Debating academic standards in UK Geography

SUMMARY OF THE ONLINE DISCUSSION, TOWARDS DEFINING GEOSPATIAL DATA LITERACY

Understanding spatial literacy: cognitive and curriculum perspectives
List of Community Members, Helen King / [email protected]

Cyber Literacy for GIScience: Toward Formalizing Geospatial Computing Education
Eric Shook and many co-authors, 2019. Great paper on the intersection of GIScience and Computational Science.

Map, GIS and Cataloging / Metadata Librarian Core Competencies
Documentation outlining core competencies in the map librarianship profession that previously did not exist. These Core Competencies outline and articulate the special skills needed to provide high- quality professional support to users of cartographic and geospatial materials.

Core Competencies for Map, GIS and Cartographic Cataloging/Metadata Librarians
The charge of the MAGIRT Core Competencies Task Force is to create core competency standards for the map and Geographic information systems (GIS) professions. The resulting document identifies the fundamental knowledge, behaviors, and skills currently essential to most professional positions within the map/GIS information field. It is intended to be a flexible document that can be revised as the field evolves and changes.

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Projects
Projects to increase the accessibility of collections from the Donald W. Hamer Center for Maps and Geospatial Information at Penn State

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