Introduction
The Library collection includes several types of manuals and tutorials.
The manuals give step by step instructions in using the software, while the tutorials provide data and scenarios to solve particular problems or questions.
The following subject search for "arcgis" in the online catalog will lead you to various resources for the software.
You must have the software to use the tutorials or manuals.
Basic Instruction Manuals
Introducing geographic information systems with ArcGIS : a workbook approach to learning GIS - Michael Kennedy
Call Number: Baker/Berry G 70.212 .K47 2009 text [data disc in Jones Media Center]
ISBN/ISSN: 0470398175
Getting to know ArcGIS desktop : basics of ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo - Tim Ormsby ... [et al.]
Call Number: Baker/Berry G 70.212 .G489 2008 text [disc in Jones]
ISBN/ISSN: 1589482107
Other Instruction Manuals
- Conservation GIS starter kit: a workbook for using geographic information systems for natural resource conservation and management - Conservation GIS Consortium
Call Number: Baker/Berry G70.212 .C66 1999 c.2
A beginner's guide to GIS with an emphasis on conservation problems. 
Getting to know ArcGIS desktop: basics of ArcView, ArcEditor and ArcInfo - Tim Ormsby, et.al.
Call Number: Baker/Berry G70.212 .G489 2004
ISBN/ISSN: 158948083X
This is the second edition of this book covering version 9 of ArcGIS. Use in conjunction with GIS Tutorial.
Exploring tropical cyclones - Michelle K. Hall ... [et al.]
Call Number: Kresge QC 941 .E95 2007
ISBN/ISSN: 0495115436
Tutorials
GIS Tutorial - Wilpen L. Gorr and Kristen S. Kurland
Call Number: Baker/Berry G 70.212 .G74 2007
ISBN/ISSN: 1589481275
This is a tutorial for ArcGIS 9. The tutorial includes a data disc that you can install on your computer. Used in conjunction with Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop, you learn the basics of the software.
GIS Tutorial for health - Kristen S. Kurland and Wilpen L. Gorr
Call Number: Baker/Berry RA 792 .G67 2006
ISBN/ISSN: 1589481488
This tutorial is similar to the one above except that this on uses GIS to map health statistics and data.
GIS Tutorial for marketing - Fred L. Miller
Call Number: Baker/Berry HF 5415.125 .M55 2007 (non-circulating)
ISBN/ISSN: 1589480791
GIS tutorial for homeland security - Susan Lindell Radke, Eddie Hanebuth
Call Number: Baker/Berry G 70.212 .R33 2008 text
ISBN/ISSN: 1589481887
Jones Media Center has the disc of data.
Other resource(s)
- University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension
They offer relatively low cost courses on GIS and mapping. Some are even free. They offer these courses around the state during the year. Check their site for course times and dates.
Software
The
College has a site license for the ArcInfo version of ArcGIS. The software runs on a PC with either
Windows 2000 or Windows XP Professional. For download instructions,
click here. Use of the software is limited to current students, staff and faculty at Dartmouth College.
Along
with our site license for ArcGIS, we have access to a variety of online
tutorials and workshops which can help you better use the software. For
access codes to the workshop and other information, please contact Lucinda M. Hall.
At this time, ArcGIS is available for use only by current Dartmouth students, staff and faculty.
Other GIS Software
There are other GIS software available for purchase. You may have used or know one of the items in the list below or another GIS software title.
MapLand is an add-on to MS Excel. This add-on allow you to map data held in a spreadsheet. It is not a GIS, but a mapping software.
- MapInfo MapInfo Professional® is a powerful Microsoft® Windows®-based mapping and geographic analysis application from the experts in location intelligence.
- MapViewer MapViewer is an affordable mapping and spatial analysis tool that allows you to produce publication-quality thematic maps easily. Display your data distribution easily and precisely with more easy-to-use features than ever.
- MapLand Mapland is spreadsheet mapping software that works inside Microsoft Excel®. Quickly and easily chart your data on a map. Save your maps in your own Excel file which can be viewed by anyone who has Excel.
ArcExplorer
ArcExplorer is a freely available lightweight GIS data viewer from ESRI that lets you perform a variety of basic GIS functions. With ArcExplorer, you can display, query, and retrieve data.
- ArcExplorer GIS Data Viewer
Call Number: Download
This link will take you to ESRI's site to download the software. - Global GIS. Global Coverage
Call Number: Evans Map Room DVD-ROM G 3201.A25 2003 .G56
You can use ArcExplorer to see the data on this product. There are many different layers viewable in ArcExplorer or ArcGIS.
Free GIS Software
From the UNH Cooperative Extension course "GIS on Pennies a Day," this is a list of freely available GIS software. You can download and use the software.
The software makers may ask that you register before downloading the software. It does allow them to keep track of who is using their products.
- AccuGlobe AccuGlobe® Desktop 2007, our standardized platform for delivering solutions to the global GIS community, offers even more of what you demand in a desktop GIS application. AccuGlobe Desktop 2007 gives you greater freedom in analyzing spatial data.
- DIVA-GIS DIVA-GIS is a free computer program for mapping and geographic data analysis (a geographic information system (GIS).
- fGIS
- gvSIG
- MapWindow GIS
- Quantum GIS
- TatukGIS
- uDig
Compare free GIS software
Courtesy of Shane Bradt, of the UNH Cooperative Extension, here is a matrix comparing the functionalities of different GIS software that are free.
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