ESRI GIS Summer Internship Program and User Conference Student Assistantship Program
Are you a GIS user? Do you want to gain more experience with GIS? If so, consider 
applying for the ESRI Summer Internship Program. The Summer Internship Program is available to both undergraduate and graduate students and is a paid program that provides valuable work experience. Would you like to attend a GIS conference this summer? The ESRI International User Conference Student Assistantship Program provides financial assistance to both undergraduates and graduates to attend the conference.
Before you head off to the conference or the internship program, be sure to read up on the history of GIS and learn more about GIS and mapping with these books that are available from the library:
- Charting the Unknown: How Computer Mapping at Harvard Became GIS, by Nicholas R Chrisman (2006)
- Mapping: A Critical Introduction to Cartography and GIS, by Jeremy W. Crampton (2010)
- Understanding Place: GIS and Mapping Across the Curriculum, by Diana Stuart Sinton (2007)
- Designed Maps: A Sourcebook for GIS Users, by Cynthia A Brewer (2008)
- Analyzing Urban Poverty: GIS for the Developing World, by Rosario C Giusti de Pérez (2008)
- Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History, by Anne Kelly Knowles (2002)