I have some news! After 13 1/2 years, January 31, 2021 will be my last day as the Geospatial Data Librarian at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY). On February 1, 2021, I will be the new GIS and Data Librarian at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island!

It’s an exciting opportunity that I’m looking forward to. I will be building geospatial information and data services in the library from the ground up, in concert with many new colleagues. I will be working closely with the Population Studies Training Center (PSTC) and the Spatial Structures in Social Sciences (S4) as well as the Center for Digital Scholarship within the library. Several aspects of the position will be similar, as I will continue to provide research and consultation services, create research guides and tutorials, teach workshops, collect and create datasets, and eventually build and manage a data repository and small lab where we’ll provide services and peer mentor students.

The resources I’ve created at Baruch CUNY will remain accessible, and eventually a new person will take the reins. I have moved the latest materials for the GIS Practicum, my introductory QGIS tutorial and workshop, to this website and I hope to continue updating and maintaining this resource. There are a lot of people throughout CUNY that I’m going to miss, at: the Newman Library, the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research, the Weissman Center for International Business, the Marxe School, Baruch’s Journalism Department, the Geography Department at Lehman College, the Digital Humanities program and the CUNY Mapping Service at the CUNY Graduate Center, and many others.

I will continue writing posts and sharing tips and resources here based on my new adventures at Brown, but may need a little break as I transition… stay tuned!

Best – Frank