{"id":3513,"date":"2014-12-11T19:17:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T19:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/drp\/?p=4269"},"modified":"2014-12-11T19:17:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T19:17:41","slug":"drp-welcomes-rob-shepard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2014\/12\/11\/drp-welcomes-rob-shepard\/","title":{"rendered":"DRP welcomes Rob Shepard!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Research &amp; Publishing is pleased to announce that <a href=\"http:\/\/unlcms.unl.edu\/cas\/center-for-digital-research-in-the-humanities\/about\/student\/shepard\" >Rob Shepard<\/a> has accepted our offer to be the new Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) Librarian for the UI Libraries. Rob comes to us from the University of Nebraska &#8211; Lincoln where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Geography.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4270\" style=\"width: 483px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ucm\/id\/243http:\/\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4270\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2014\/12\/University_of_Iowa_campus_map_ca_1943.jpg\" alt=\"University of Iowa campus map, ca. 1943\" width=\"473\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">University of Iowa campus map, ca. 1943<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>We at DRP are looking forward to the talents and experience Rob brings that will further enhance the accessibility and usability of <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/maps\/\" >geospatial resources<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/statisticsforhumanities.net\/book1\/index.php?title=Chapter_16:_Everything_happens_somewhere:_Spatial_data\" >everything&#8217;s spatial!<\/a>) in the <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/\" >Iowa Digital Library<\/a>.\u00a0 Rob will also be working on cross-campus coordination of GIS and support for faculty research and other Libraries partners.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4271\" style=\"width: 483px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ictcs\/id\/17720\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4271\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2014\/12\/Men_moving_items_into_Main_Library_the_University_of_Iowa_1951.jpg\" alt=\"Moving items into Main Library, the University of Iowa, 1951\" width=\"473\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moving items into Main Library, the University of Iowa, 1951<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Welcome, Rob!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Research &amp; Publishing is pleased to announce that Rob Shepard has accepted our offer to be the new Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) Librarian for the UI Libraries. Rob comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4029,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3513\/revisions\/4029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}