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[Geography Matters] November 19, 2008 marked another successful GIS Day celebration. For ten years, GIS users continue to uphold the vision of this important event and share with others the role of GIS in our daily lives.

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[LibrarianInBlack] LibrarianInBlack: Future of Libraries Conference 4.0: Opening Keynote: With GIS you can look at a map showing levels of poverty, geographic dispersion of your users by branch location, the race or ethnicity of a neighborhood, She has done a lot of work with OCLC and WebJunction. Some studies to look at: The World Book Award Study of Linguistically Isolated Public Library Markets, the NCLIS Delphi Study of Library Leaders Demograhpic/Map Report, the OCLC Branch Closure Study, and an update to the PLGDB (2006) with recent ALA and Gates funding.

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