{"id":13460,"date":"2011-11-14T09:27:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T14:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=13460"},"modified":"2011-11-11T15:28:14","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T20:28:14","slug":"map-library-hosts-gis-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2011\/11\/map-library-hosts-gis-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Map Library hosts GIS Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/library\/collections\/maplibrary\" target=\"_blank\">Map Library<\/a> is hosting a whole day of events on Tuesday, Nov. 15 to celebrate GIS Day.<\/p>\n<p>Participants from various departments will gather to hear faculty and students describe how GIS and other mapping strategies are used to visualize research. There will also be workshops on data use and GIS, as well as geography trivia \u2014 with prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Although GIS has been used on campus for many years, the campus site  license purchased by James A. Gibson Library last spring has provided  wider access to the software.<\/p>\n<p>The event is part of Geography Awareness Week, which is Nov. 13 to 18. Tuesday&#8217;s events are held in partnership with the Brock University Geographical Society, the Brock Environmental Sustainability Research Unit and the Library Data Research Service. It will include a pizza lunch and a GIS cake.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/buj3e6d\">Download a PDF file of the full list of events<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participants will gather to hear how GIS and other mapping strategies are used to visualize research. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13460"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13464,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13460\/revisions\/13464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}