Faculty members who teach GIS-related classes will have to give their students permission to acquire a temporary account for the use of the lab and, starting September 1997, training sessions and introductory courses on different GIS tools will be offered. A sign-up procedure will be required for teaching and instruction. This lab will also be used for bibliographic instruction for library research and on-line database searching as a supplementary facility to the other library bibliographic instruction computer lab. When Green Library is complete next April, an area of over 3,000 square feet will be allocated to the GIS function. This will include separate research and instructional laboratory areas.
Work is farthest advanced in the areas closest to the highrise and is proceding outward from that.
The extent of expansion for the lower three floors is just becoming visible. She and her two co-authors, Professor Stephen Strichart, from the FIU College of Education, and Professor Charles T. Mangrum, II, from the College of Education at the University of Miami, have written Teaching Study Skills and Strategies for Students in College and Teaching Study Skills and Strategies to Students with Learning Disabilities. They have also produced a computer-based assessment program for assessment of individual students study skills. The first two books in the series, for high school and grades 4-8, are now in print. She has also been invited to give a presentation at the same conference on Consortial Licensing of Digital Resources.