The PRI Library has received announcement for a GIS Specialist with the CSDE at the Seattle campus of the University of Washington.

The Uganda Atlas of HIV/AIDS Indicators 2004-05, available from Demographic and Health Surveys, combines the detailed geographic data collected in DHS surveys with other DHS data.

The PRI Library has received an announcement for Mapping Global Inequality, a UC Atlas conference.

The PRI Library has received announcements from the Minnesota Population Center for their IPUMS Summer Workshop and Summer Workshop on GIS.

The FIPS 55 raw data and documentation have been added to PopNet UNIX in order to provide source data for the PRI FIPS SodaPop Collection. As this version was more current that what was available in SodaPop, that collection was also updated.

Summit County, Ohio topographic data for 1994, 2000, and (as of) January 2006 (each year on DVD-ROM) have been added to the PRI GIS Lab Library Collection. Metadata for each year has also been printed, bound and cataloged (metadata in electronic format available on each DVD). Please see the GIS Library page for information on how to check-out these materials.

A Vision of Britain Through Time Web site provides a historical view of Britain between 1801 and 2001, including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions. This site was created by the Great Britain Historical GIS Project based in the Department of Geography of the University of Portsmouth. The mission of the Great Britain Historical GIS Project is to provide a spatial framework for historical information about Britain…see “About Historical GIS” for more information.