Committee Members
Tracey Hughes, Chair (University of California, San Diego)Hallie Pritchett (University of Georgia)
Kimberly Kowal (British Library)
T. Wangyal Shawa (Princeton University)
Edith Scarletto (Kent State University)
Chris Kollen (University of Arizona)
John Olson (Syracuse University)
Mary Laarsgard (University of California Santa Barbara)
Joy Suh (George Mason University)
Angela Lee (ESRI)
Marcy Allen (Pennsylvania State University)
Cynthia Dietz (SUNY - Stony Brook)
Abraham Parrish (Yale University)
Jill Uhrovic (Florida International University)
Jen Doty (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Eva Dodsworth (University of Waterloo)
Gregory March (University of Tennessee)
Purpose, Membership, and Duties
Purpose. To provide a forum within MAGERT for the discussion of issues concerning geographic information technologies including: geographic information systems (GIS), electronic mapping, electronic geographic and cartographic products, digital geo-spatial data metadata topics and other trends in the geospatial arena.
Membership. At least one committee member should be a participant in the Association of Research Libraries GIS Literacy Project.
Duties. The committee monitors and holds discussion forums on issues related to geographic information technologies. Working with the Education Committee, GeoTech proposes workshops and conferences to educate librarians in new technologies. The committee liaisons with the Cartographic Users Task Force to aid in the monitoring of government produced data. The committee will find it both necessary and advantageous to communicate with MAGERT’s other committees and discussion groups to stay up to date on relevant topics such as metadata, GIS, and current program planning.
Revised 3/12/2009