Geography
Awareness Week Events at Ball State University Libraries
The
National Geographic Society created “Geography Awareness Week” to raise
awareness to a dangerous deficiency in American education in the importance of
geospatial issues and their impacts on students as global citizens. The commemoration also serves to excite
people about geography as both a discipline and as a part of everyday life.
November
13-19 is “Geography Awareness Week,” and the Ball State University Libraries’
GIS Research and Map Collection (GRMC) is celebrating with special events. GIS Day is Wednesday, November 16 from 1:00
to 4:00 pm in the Bracken Library Schwartz Digital Complex. Attendees will be able to learn about GIS
software and data resources on campus, attend brief presentations by faculty about
how they use GIS in their research, and view and vote for their favorite student-created
GIS research posters.
On
Wednesday evening from 6:00 to 7:00 pm geography and history fans can attend a
special class about Indiana history at the Cornerstone Center for the Arts (520
East Main Street) in downtown Muncie.
The class will feature custom Indiana history maps created to celebrate
the state’s Bicentennial in December.
Some of the maps feature events in Indiana political history, sports
history, and women’s history. Maps about
the lives of famous Hoosiers will also be shown, including Madam C.J. Walker,
John Dillinger, and Marshall “Major” Taylor.
For
more information about these events, please contact the GRMC at 765-285-1097.
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