The primary purpose of the Spatial Business Library is to be a one-stop resource for anyone who is looking for materials to enhance their knowledge of GIS applications in business. Students and faculty in business schools/programs, employees of a wide variety of businesses (large or small, for-profit or not-for-profit, or public or private) in a wide variety of industries, and consultants and businesses catering to GIS applications in business will find the material in the site useful.

The Spatial Business Library is unique in that it allows users to add references of all kinds (articles, courses, cases, books, audio/video clips, data sources, analysis templates, tools for analysis, events, etc.) and tag items with various metadata. Instead of containing only the standard information (abstract, author, publisher, etc) users can add more detailed information like business disciplines, application areas, industries, and suitability levels. Other users may then sort or search by any of these fields to find exactly what they need.

Starting with an initial collection of about 500 entries we expect the library to grow and become increasingly more useful with the active participation of the user community. We anticipate that the growing infusion of GIS in the business world will lead to growing infusion of this knowledge in business schools, thus increasing the usefulness of the resources on this site. As usage, and user base, increases it is natural to expect that contributions to this site will also increase.

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