If you're reading this post, you probably already know something about SFU Library's services, spaces, and resources.

And if you know and use our services to any extent at all, you probably have some opinions on what's working and what could be improved.

And if you have such opinions, you may have also wished that there was an efficient and impactful way to share them...

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One of the great benefits of working/studying in a large university like SFU is the increased potential for innovative ideas and approaches to spread between subjects. If you can take the time to step outside of your own department or faculty now and then — and out of the box of your discipline's usual perspective — you may learn something that allows you to see your own research area in a new way.

Take, for instance, GIS (Geographic Information Systems): this standard tool of the Geography Dept. has wide application in almost any subject. Visualizing, and thinking spatially about, a topic can unlock new insights obscured by standard data tables and dense text — regardless of whether you're analyzing supply chains, economic development, consumer behaviour, or housing prices.

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