The ARL GIS Literacy Project - Support for Government Data Services in the
Digital Library

Mary French
School of Information Science & Learning Technologies
University of Missouri-Columbia


This presention will describe the ARL GIS Literacy Project and its role in
providing support for continued access to government data which is
increasingly distributed only in digital form. In particular, it will
address the University of Missouri's (MU) experience in the broad context
of the ARL GIS Literacy Project goals as well as in comparison to the
reported experiences of other participating institutions. It will discuss
what MU has produced in terms of GIS services, what has been learned about
broadening awareness of GIS, and what impact participation in this project
may have had on social science research conducted at MU. The MU experience
will be examined as an example of the creation of support mechanisms for
integration of GIS into the digital library environment and into
interdisciplinary research.