Geoskills among academic librarians in Greece, Cyprus and Spain
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Geoskills among academic librarians in Greece, Cyprus and SpainDate
2016Publisher
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0099-1333Bibliographic citation
I. Vardakosta, E. Aguilar-Moreno, C. Granell-Canut, S. Kapidakis. Geoskills amongst academic librarians in Greece, Cyprus and Spain. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 42(5): 485-494, 2016, ISSN 0099-1333. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2016.04.020Type
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Existing literature on Geographic Information (GI) and libraries points out that American and
Canadian librarians have long been aware of the intimate relationship between geospatial data
and libraries. In Europe, ... [+]
Existing literature on Geographic Information (GI) and libraries points out that American and
Canadian librarians have long been aware of the intimate relationship between geospatial data
and libraries. In Europe, though, there is almost no literature to this regard, and academic
libraries that offer GI services are the exception., Despite the fact that European and National
institutions are putting lots of efforts forward for making open data freely available to society,
and for supporting full programmes to generate business out of it, this paper examines why
libraries and librarians are not perceived as key players in the (geo) data-driven economy.
Starting with a survey addressed to academic librarians (in three European countries: Greece,
Cyprus and Spain) about their GI knowledge and skills, the paper attempts to shed some light on
the librarians’ perception about their role in GI management, and to identify to what extent they
are ready for providing GI services to their communities. The ultimate goal of this paper is to
serve as a triggering factor to wake up European academic libraries, Librarianship programmers
and librarians themselves, to encourage them to look for opportunities in geospatial data
management. [-]
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