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Dr. Christie Koontz |
Dr. Koontz, director of GeoLib, pioneered the critical need to understand the spatial customer markets of individual libraries. In a decade of research projects, she collected data which describe diverse populations and how they use a single library, with a goal to optimize collection development and service delivery at a single library. Koontz' research is the basis of the U.S. Public Library Geographic Database (www.geolib.org.) The database includes relevant US census data and library use data from 16,000 communities. Koontz teaches and conducts marketing activities for the College, is a columnist for Marketing Library Services, published by Information Today www.infotoday.com, and co-authored a virtual campus marketing course utilizing geographic information system software (GIS) which can be found at www.esri.com. Koontz serves on committees of state, national and international library and information organizations and has won numerous awards for her research.
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