At the 2025 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Conference in Minneapolis, BTAA-GIN members Ryan Mattke, Karen Majewicz, and Amanda Tickner presented a poster highlighting the program’s evolution and the social infrastructure that underpins its long-term success.
Titled Sustaining a Spatial Collaboration: Leveraging Social Infrastructure to Support Technological Growth, the poster traces the development of BTAA-GIN from an informal network into a nationally recognized initiative. It emphasizes that while technological innovation—such as the BTAA Geoportal—has been critical, the program’s staying power lies in the strong, collaborative community built across institutions.
Key Themes
Next Steps The themes explored in the poster are shaping current priorities as BTAA-GIN prepares to redesign the geoportal and move into its next strategic phase. These insights will help ensure that both the technology and the community supporting it continue to grow together.
TECHnology
Community Engagement
Knowledge
Collaborated to draft a transition document to provide to incoming co-chairs and members on key priorities: Knowledge Committee as a whole, Services Models group, and Geospatial Data Citation group.
Coordination
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