Around the Web

2024

New Center for Digital Scholarship helps faculty leverage data, showcase their publications, and use the latest AI, University of Chicago Library News

GIS Librarians for Open Workflows (GLOW) led by University of Chicago Library and UCGIS wins Esri Special Achievement in GIS Award, Esri

Center for Digital Scholarship Opens, University of Chicago Library News

Knowledge@UChicago reaches 10,000 scholarly and creative works and 2 million downloads, University of Chicago Library News

University addresses funders’ changing requirements for data sharing, University of Chicago Library News

2023

Advancing GIS librarianship with a national leadership grant, University of Chicago Library News

Digital Scholarship, National Library Week, University of Chicago

NEH grant to transform UChicago’s creation and delivery of digital collections and research data, University of Chicago Library News

NIH officers to demystify new Data Management and Sharing Policy at online UChicago Library panel discussion, University of Chicago Library News

2022

University of Chicago Library Data Award, University of Chicago Library News

IMLS awards UChicago Library National Leadership Grant to enhance GIS librarian workflows, University of Chicago Library News

NEH awards UChicago Library grant to digitize Chicagoland’s historical maps, University of Chicago Library News

2021

Digital Cartographic Collections at the University of Chicago, Chicago Research Summit

The Bridges of BTAA Counties, BTAA Geoportal Blog

University of Chicago Library Data Award, University of Chicago Library News

New Director of Digital Scholarship, University of Chicago Library News

Chicago Ethnic Group Shapefiles 1868-1940, BTAA Geoportal Blog

BTAA Geospatial Data Project, MAGIRT/WAML Webinar

Spatial Thinking in Digital Pedagogy and Research, Lighting Talk for Symposium for Teaching with Technology

Earth Day Spatial Data Resources: ArcGIS Online and the Living Atlas, University of Chicago Library News

Earth Day Spatial Data Resources: Big Ten Academic Alliance Geoportal, University of Chicago Library News

Earth Day Spatial Data Resources: USGS EarthExplorer, University of Chicago Library News

Earth Day Spatial Data Resources: Land Cover and Geology Maps, University of Chicago Library News

Earth Day Spatial Data Resources: International Topo Maps, University of Chicago Library News

Interview with the Cook County Bureau of Technology, BTAA Geoportal Blog

Featured Item: Aerial Imagery: Cook County, Illinois, 2003, BTAA Geoportal Blog

2020

FAQs about the US Covid Atlas, US Covid Atlas Webpage

GIS Collaborations and Events, University of Chicago Library News

Featured Collection: University of Chicago Library GIS Data Hub, BTAA Geoportal Blog

Geomasking: approaches to obscuring sensitive archaeological site locations, Cambridge Core Blog

Curator’s Pick: East 63rd Street Map, BTAA Geoportal Blog

George Washington’s Own Map of Mount Vernon, BTAA Geoportal Blog

Railway Terminal Map of Chicago, BTAA Geoportal Blog

EarthStat, BTAA Geoportal Blog

2019

Facility Geofencing, BTAA Geoportal Blog

Wisconsin Shipwrecks, BTAA Geoportal Blog

Illinois Geospatial Data Clearinghouse, BTAA Geoportal Blog

Passenger train movement in Metropolitan Chicago, BTAA Geoportal Blog

Contributor Spotlight: University of Chicago, BTAA Geoportal Blog

Geospatial workshops in Crerar’s GIS Hub, University of Chicago Library News

2018

Opening a GIS Hub at Crerar Library, University of Chicago Library Libra Newsletter

Meet new GIS and Maps Librarians, University of Chicago Library News