id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt istl-2079 GIS and the Academic Library .html text/html 3014 175 51 GIS began appearing in academic libraries during the 1980s, but it truly began to be a part of library services when the 1990 census materials were given to depository libraries as TIGER (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing) files. Of the 103 libraries surveyed, 31 had already implemented GIS services and an additional 15 were considering its implementation. cache/istl-2079.html txt/istl-2079.txt