{"id":12558,"date":"2022-06-15T12:50:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T16:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=12558"},"modified":"2022-06-15T12:50:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T16:50:38","slug":"donnelly-census-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/donnelly-census-article\/","title":{"rendered":"GIS Librarian Authors Article on US Census for American Library Association"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"324\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/06\/ALA-Report.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/06\/ALA-Report.png 250w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/06\/ALA-Report-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of the <em>Library Technology Reports<\/em> series, <em>ALA TechSource<\/em> (an imprint of the American Library Association) has published\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/journals.ala.org\/index.php\/ltr\/index\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/journals.ala.org\/index.php\/ltr\/index\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">US Census Data: Concepts and Applications for Supporting Research,<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0written by\u00a0Frank Donnelly, Brown University GIS and Data Librarian (vol. 58, no. 4, May\/June 2022).\u00a0<em>Library Technology Reports<\/em>\u00a0help librarians make informed decisions about technology products and projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the publisher:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;<em>US Census Data: Concepts and Applications for Supporting Research\u201d provides readers with a crash course on the census: learn about the concepts on which the census is organized, the key datasets, accessing data online and through scripts via APIs, and considerations for using GIS, historical data, and microdata. Librarians will gain knowledge they can use for assisting members of their communities with census data and will see how the census can be used for library planning and research.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Donnelly&#8217;s summary article of the report,\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/americanlibrariesmagazine.org\/2022\/06\/01\/crunching-the-numbers\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/americanlibrariesmagazine.org\/2022\/06\/01\/crunching-the-numbers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Crunching the Numbers:\u00a0What to do with the release of the 2020 Census data<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0published June 1, 2022, is available\u00a0in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/americanlibrariesmagazine.org\/2022\/06\/01\/crunching-the-numbers\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>American Libraries<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Library Technology Reports series, ALA TechSource (an imprint of the American Library Association) has published\u00a0&#8220;US Census Data: Concepts and Applications for Supporting Research,&#8221;\u00a0written by\u00a0Frank Donnelly, Brown University GIS and Data Librarian (vol. 58, no. 4, May\/June 2022).\u00a0Library Technology Reports\u00a0help librarians make informed decisions about technology products and projects. From the publisher:&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/donnelly-census-article\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  GIS Librarian Authors Article on US Census for American Library Association<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,16,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-page","category-publications","category-staff-transitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}