nevada geographic information society presentation. october 12, 2015

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

More Pics

My Own Experience-I am an end user

-Land Use/Land Cover Management projects

-@UNR-I don’t have my own GIS projects-helping inexperienced users

GIS ServicesI wanted to provide technical GIS support for users on campus

-Daily: Walk-In availability in a public computer lab-with me or another dedicated tutor-an addition to existing tutoring services in the DeLaMare Library

-Monthly: Intro to GIS sessions available to anyone

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GIS Consultations by Semester

GIS Use is on the rise @ UNR

John Snow – Original GIS Map

New Users New User Groups

Data Visualization

Governor Sandoval enjoying our data visualization wall

Augmented Reality Sandbox

Thank youQuestions?

Erich PurpurDeLaMare Science & Engineering Library775 682 5706epurpur@unr.edu