Ομάδα Γεωγραφικών Βιβλιοθηκών:μια συνεργατική προσπάθεια για τη διαχείριση και προώθηση της γεωγραφικής πληροφορίας στην Ελλάδα
| Main Authors: | Βαρδακώστα, Ιφιγένεια, Κουρή, Σταυρούλα, Κουφάκου, Ευτυχία, Γερόλιμος, Μιχάλης |
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| Format: | Proceeding PeerReviewed Book |
| Bahasa: | el |
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Πανεπιστήμιο Κρήτης. Βιβλιοθήκη και Κέντρο Πληροφόρησης
, 2019
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http://eprints.rclis.org/39162/1/OmadaGeografikon_25oPSAB.text.pdf http://eprints.rclis.org/39162/ |
Daftar Isi:
- Geographical information is an important type of information, related to citizens’ daily activities, as well as to issues of the wider working and living environment in which they live and work. This makes geographic information a commodity of high economic and political value, which further supports a large number of government services to the citizen. Although academic libraries have been demonstrating operational innovations and actions in the past years, only a limited number sustain geographical collections and services. At the same time, librarians do not use maps and geospatial data, while they seem unable to identify potential GIS needs in their institution. As a result, they do not follow a management strategy for GIS while largely ignore the production of geospatial data by their academic community. The aforementioned above, as a consequence are also reflected to the users’ habits, which have turned to the internet since they consider Greek libraries as insufficient for covering their geo-informational needs. These data acted as a trigger for action for academic libraries, assisted by the National Library of Greece as well, with academic departments for which geographic information is an educational and research priority. Thus, in addition to justifying the importance of geographical information, the paper will present the Geographic Libraries Group to the wider library community and will describe the objectives that led to its establishment. Finally, the actions of cooperation achieved at both organizational and target levels will be noted.