Ardis Hanson

Ardis Hanson is the director of the research library at the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute at the University of South Florida (USF). Interested in the use of technology to enhance research, she has presented at the USF Symposium on 21st Century Teaching Technologies and Internet2 showcasing innovative software applications. She is an adjunct instructor in the School of Library and Information Science and the College of Public Health at USF. Ms. Hanson was a member of the Virtual Library Planning Committee, the Implementation Team, the Interface Design Project Group, and the Metadata Team.

Publications

Trust in Computer Mediated Communication
Trust in Computer Mediated Communication
Ardis Hanson, Sheila Gobes-Ryan. © 2015. 9 pages.
Critical Information Literacy in the Geographic and Information Sciences
Critical Information Literacy in the Geographic and Information Sciences
Ardis Hanson, John Abresch. © 2015. 10 pages.
Power and Trust in the Virtual Workplace: Team Development as Communities-of-Practice
Power and Trust in the Virtual Workplace: Team Development as Communities-of-Practice
Ardis Hanson, Eric Paul Engel, Sheila Gobes-Ryan. © 2010. 25 pages.
How we work in an increasingly computer-mediated world requires new ways of understanding the construction of teams, their co-construction of tacit knowledge to make sense of the...
Integrating Geographic Information Systems into Library Services: A Guide for Academic Libraries
Integrating Geographic Information Systems into Library Services: A Guide for Academic Libraries
John Abresch, Ardis Hanson, Susan Jane Heron, Peter J. Reehling. © 2008. 318 pages.
With the onslaught of emergent technology in academia, libraries are privy to many innovative techniques to recognize and classify geospatial data—above and beyond the...
Geography and Librarianship
Geography and Librarianship
John Abresch, Ardis Hanson, Susan Jane Heron, Peter J. Reehling. © 2008. 21 pages.
There are many definitions of the study of geography. Most scholars define the discipline of geography as broadly concerned with the study of the earth’s environment and...
Information Economy and Geospatial Information
Information Economy and Geospatial Information
John Abresch, Peter J. Reehling, Ardis Hanson. © 2008. 31 pages.
The recent socioeconomic trends, convergence of telecommunication technologies and the emergence of information as an integral component of the contemporary economy, have had...
Spatial Databases and Data Infrastructure
Spatial Databases and Data Infrastructure
John Abresch, Peter J. Reehling, Ardis Hanson. © 2008. 29 pages.
The emergence, in recent years, of digital libraries and of Internet-based communication applications have led some researchers to propose that the emerging data infrastructure...
Describing Geospatial Information
Describing Geospatial Information
Ardis Hanson, Susan Jane Heron. © 2008. 32 pages.
To be optimally useful, geospatial resources must be described. This description is referred to as metadata. Metadata tells “who, what, where, when, why, and how” about every...
From Print Formats to Digital: Describing GIS Data Standards
From Print Formats to Digital: Describing GIS Data Standards
Ardis Hanson, Susan Jane Heron. © 2008. 37 pages.
The preceding chapter discussed how geographic and cartographic materials are traditionally described in libraries. With the growth of geospatial data, new methods of description...
Accessibility: Critical GIS, Ontologies, and Semantics
Accessibility: Critical GIS, Ontologies, and Semantics
Ardis Hanson. © 2008. 24 pages.
With the creation of the Internet and the continued evolution of technologies in GIS, networking, and knowledge management, access to geospatial information is a critical...
Reference Services
Reference Services
Ardis Hanson. © 2008. 27 pages.
Geographers often define the spatial parameters of different environments by integrating diverse data sets with locational coordinates to create an attribute-rich digital...
Collection Management Issues with Geospatial Information
Collection Management Issues with Geospatial Information
John Abresch, Ardis Hanson, Peter J. Rheeling. © 2008. 37 pages.
Among the most challenging aspects of GIS are identifying needs, acquiring resources, and managing the collection, a process that involves decision making in a dynamic and...
Geographic Information and Library Education
Geographic Information and Library Education
John Abresch, Ardis Hanson, Peter J. Rheeling. © 2008. 28 pages.
“I invite all of you to become geographers, if not by vocation then by avocation. GIS is about thinking geographically. Beyond being an essential component of GIS, geography also...
What the Future Holds: Trends in GIS and Academic Libraries
What the Future Holds: Trends in GIS and Academic Libraries
John Abresch, Ardis Hanson, Susan Jane Heron, Peter J. Rheeling. © 2008. 29 pages.
Geographic information is ubiquitous, from MapQuest in Google to the use of global positioning systems on PDAs and automobiles. More people use geographic information on a daily...
Online Academic Libraries and Distance Learning
Online Academic Libraries and Distance Learning
Merilyn Burke, Bruce Lubotsky Levin, Ardis Hanson. © 2008. 6 pages.
Historically, distance learning or distance education began as little more than “correspondence courses,” which promised an education in one’s own home as early as 1728 (Distance...
Library Management and Organizational Change
Library Management and Organizational Change
Ardis Hanson, Phyllis Ruscella, Kathy Arsenault, Joan Pelland, Derrie Perez, Beverly Shattuck. © 2005. 6 pages.
As academic libraries continue to develop a virtual presence, they must cope with the rapidly evolving rate of change and respond proactively to their changing environment in...
Online Academic Libraries and Distance Learning
Online Academic Libraries and Distance Learning
Merilyn Burke, Bruce Lubotsky Levin, Ardis Hanson. © 2005. 4 pages.
Historically, distance learning or distance education began as little more than “correspondence courses,” which promised an education in one’s own home as early as 1728 (Distance...
Overcoming Barriers in the Planning of a Virtual Library
Overcoming Barriers in the Planning of a Virtual Library
Ardis Hanson. © 2005. 5 pages.
The implementation of a university-wide virtual library inevitably causes significant changes within each department across the library and campus. However, real ownership comes...
Building a Virtual Library
Building a Virtual Library
Ardis Hanson, Bruce Lubotsky Levin. © 2003. 256 pages.
The organization, functioning, and the role of libraries in university communities continue to change dramatically. While academic research libraries continue to acquire...
Introduction: Technology, Organizational Change and Virtual Libraries
Introduction: Technology, Organizational Change and Virtual Libraries
Ardis Hanson, Bruce Lubotsky Levin, Susan Heron. © 2003. 18 pages.
Change has become a way of life for most organizations in the 21st century. In order to withstand profound change, an organisation must be flexible and incorporate the ability to...
E-Reference
E-Reference
Amy Tracey Wells, Ardis Hanson. © 2003. 26 pages.
Lipnow (1997) talks about traditional reference as a mediated, one-on-one service that intervenes at the information seeker’s point of need. Further, she suggests that this point...
Distance Learning
Distance Learning
Merilyn Burke, Bruce Lubotsky Levin, Ardis Hanson. © 2003. 16 pages.
Gapen (1993) states that the concept of remote access to the contents and services of libraries and other information resources provides the user technology that brings access to...
Issues for Library Management When Implementing Large-Scale Programmatic Change
Issues for Library Management When Implementing Large-Scale Programmatic Change
Kathy Arsenault, Ardis Hanson, Joan Pelland. © 2003. 15 pages.
Change, by its very nature, is unpredictable, and often unmanageable, yet an organization’s success depends on an ability to predict and control change in some way. To derive...
Overcoming Barriers in the Planning of a Virtual Library: Recognising Organisational and Cultural Change Agents
Overcoming Barriers in the Planning of a Virtual Library: Recognising Organisational and Cultural Change Agents
Ardis Hanson. © 2002. 11 pages.
The University of South Florida (USF) Libraries consist of five separate entities, two located at regional campuses in St. Petersburg and Sarasota and three libraries located on...