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The GRI team would like to congratulate Barbara Van Hooser from Tennessee State University, our iPad 2 raffle prize winner from the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) show in Philadelphia last month. Congratulations Barbara!
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Men’s Health magazine decided to crown one town America’s Most Socially Networked City, and has generated quite a buzz in the process. Their survey examined the number of Facebook and LinkedIn users per capita, followed by overall Twitter usage (NetProspex). They also looked at traffic generated by the major social networks, including Myspace, Friendster, Reddit, and Digg (analyzed by ad network Chitika). And they used SimplyMap to factor in the percentage of households that check out chat rooms and blogs. The result was a list of the top 100 socially networked cities.
The top socially networked city might surprise you. None of the hotbeds of high tech like San Francisco, Seattle, or even Palo Alto rose to the top spot – it was venerable and staid Washington D.C. that took home the title.
The story has been picked up around the Internet; here are a few blogs and other sites sharing the news – some proud representatives of high ranking cities, others, not so much.
Did your city make the list?
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The GRI team is looking forward to exhibiting at ACRL 2011 at the PA Convention Center in Philadelphia, March 30 – April 1, 2011.
Every other year, ACRL offers its premier professional development event devoted exclusively to the needs of academic and research librarians.
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association, is a professional association of academic librarians and other interested individuals. It is dedicated to enhancing the ability of academic library and information professionals to serve the information needs of the higher education community and to improve learning, teaching, and research.
Click here for conference info.
Exhibit Hours:
Wednesday, March 30 – 5:40 – 7:30PM Opening Reception in Exhibit Hall
Thursday, March 31 – 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Exhibit Hall Open
Friday, April 1 – 9:30am – 4:00pm Exhibit Hall Open
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Come visit the Geographic Research booth at the Ontario Library Association Super Conference this season. The conference will take place on February 2-5, 2011 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
The Ontario Library Association is Canada’s largest library organization and OLA’s Super Conference is Canada’s largest continuing education event in librarianship, with the country’s largest library tradeshow.
Stop by our booth for a demonstration and to learn about all of the new features in SimplyMap 2.0!
Expo Hours:
Thursday, February 3, 10:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Friday, February 4, 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
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The GRI team will be attending the American Library Association Midwinter meeting this year at the San Diego Convention Center. Visit us in booth 1055 in the exhibit hall from January 7 – 10, 2011.
We will be offering a special preview of SimplyMap 2.0, which has been completely redesigned with superior usability and performance, and a host of new features. Stop by and check it out!
Exhibit Hours:
Friday, January 7, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday, January 8 – 9, 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Monday, January 10, 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Learn more about the ALA Midwinter Meeting.
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NC LIVE, a member-driven library service organization dedicated to providing online information services that support education, enhance statewide economic development, and increase quality of life of all North Carolinians, highlighted SimplyMap as its featured resource in their August 2010 NC LIVE Insights newsletter.
NC LIVE members include 197 libraries throughout the state, including the NC Community College System, NC Independent College and Universities, NC Public Libraries and the State Library of NC, and the University of North Carolina System. Users can access SimplyMap via NC LIVE’s online library 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from any location with an internet connection.
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SimplyMap Canada is now available at several Canadian institutions, including York University and Ryerson University, in Toronto.
SimplyMap Canada has all of the great features included in the US version, and Canada-specific data sets from Environics Analytics Group that include Adjusted Census Data from the year 2006, Current Estimates and Five Year Projections & the Current Estimates Household Expenditure Potential (HEP). It also includes the D&B Canadian Business Directory, with over 1.1 million Canadian business points. All data is available nationwide for all Canadian geographies including Provinces, census divisions, census subdivisions, census metropolitan areas, census tracts and dissemination areas.
There is a demo of SimplyMap scheduled for September 15th, at York University. Learn more.
Read more on MADAR – Maps and Data at Ryerson
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The American Library Association 2010 Annual Conference is coming and the GRI team is gearing up for another great event this summer. We will be in Washington, D.C. again this year, June 25 – 28 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Stop by booth 1230 to say hello – it is a great opportunity to share your feedback and ideas for SimplyMap.
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We will be exhibiting at the 2010 SLA Annual Conference & INFO-EXPO June 13-15 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, LA.
Join us at booth 1537 – bring your questions and comments, or view a demo of SimplyMap – we look forward to seeing you there!
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The GRI team was honored to learn that SimplyMap was included in this year’s Choice Outstanding Academic Title List, published in the January 2010 issue of Choice Magazine. This is a great follow up to the magazine’s December 2009 review of SimplyMap, which bestowed an “Essential” rating on the product.
This year’s Outstanding Academic Title list includes 652 resources chosen by the Choice editorial staff from over 7,000 titles reviewed during the past year. Of the 652 products and services on the list, only 40 of them are electronic resources, truly placing SimplyMap among the elite academic reference tools.
According to Choice, additions to this list are selected for their excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of their contribution to the field, and their value as important — often the first — treatment of their subject. Comprising just over 9% of the titles reviewed by Choice during the past year, and less than 3% of the more than 25,000 titles submitted to Choice during that period, selections for the Outstanding Academic Titles list are truly the “best of the best.”
