Presentation by Tracey Hughes, GIS Coordinator, at the Medical Library Group of Southern California & Arizona Technology Symposium

1. March 2009 Tracey Hughes, GIS Coordinator University of California San Diego Libraries Medical Library Group of Southern CA & AZ Technology Symposium

3. Today’s Talk

4. Basics of spatial thinking & GIS

5. Image from NLM NIH; obtained on 3/3/09 from http://www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk/learning_modules/geography/05.TU.01/?section=2 . London Cholera Epidemic of 1854

6. Image from The Times, 1853; obtained from Gale Infotrac database, The Times Digital Archive on 3/4/09.

7. Maybe it’s a spatial issue? Each dot represents one death from cholera. 500 people died in the epidemic, eventually determined to be caused by a contaminated well. Map obtained August 2006 from http:// www.crissycorkboard.org/gis_class/london.htm .

8. Basics of spatial thinking & GIS

10. Image obtained 3/5/09 from http://worldmapper.org respectively..

11. Image obtained in April 2008 from http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/A11vsMLB.gif

14. Demo

15. Basics of spatial thinking & GIS

17. Layers & Attributes

18. GIS in health sciences

30. GIS @ UCSD

31. Who I help…

32. Manage Lab Teach Acquire & make data available

34. Web Presence http://govinfo.ucsd.edu/gis

36. Check out the Map & GIS Librarian Core Competencies Is GIS librarianship different?

42. Quote from the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care in the United States. Discussion

43. Tracey Hughes GIS Coordinator Social Sciences & Humanities Library UC San Diego t2hughes @ ucsd.edu 858-534-6854 I’m interested to hear your thoughts & ideas.