GIS Education @ UNR

Erich PurpurGIS LibrarianDeLaMare Science & Engineering LibraryUniversity of Nevada, Renoepurpur@unr.edu

What I do-Serve the users of the DeLaMare Science & Engineering Library and the UNR Campus community

-GIS is only part of my job-Care for the Makerspace-Supervise students-Liaison to various engineering departments-Day to day library stuff

My Own Experience-Disclaimer: I am not an expert!

-My experience is mostly as an end user

-Land use/land cover management projects

My personal struggleWhere to start?What to teach?

80/20 Rule-80% of people need 20% of what ArcGIS can do

-People want to visualize their data/research in order to recognize spatial patterns in the data

Example:-Social Work Faculty

-Reno Homeless Project

What teaching strategy is best?It’s a toss up

What Next?-GIS/Geospatial Data Center

-many academic libraries offer some level of GIS support

-Simple? -Walk in sessions

-Or Advanced?-Data Storage-App Development-High Level Computing

Erich PurpurGIS LibrarianDeLaMare Science & Engineering LibraryUniversity of Nevada, Renoepurpur@unr.edu

Thank you. Any Questions?