This is My Town: Developing a Community Profile to Better Understand a Location

This workshop will provide an overview for doing a community profile for a specific area or community.  Library experts from Business, Government information, and the Southwest Collection will illustrate how to best use available resources to develop an in-depth community profile.  This workshop would be useful for classes in business, mass media, nursing, history, etc. or any class that needs to do in-depth research on a community or site.  Resources will include statistical databases, private/local/state/federal/international statistics, etc. Lubbock will be used as an example. 

• Learning Outcomes:

• Students will learn how to effectively develop a community profile.

• Students will understand what resources are available including, but not limited to, government sources, commercial resources, etc.

• Students will understand the role of Personal librarians and Southwest Collection Staff in assisting with researching a community profile. 

• Audience: All graduate and undergraduate students primarily in the Social Sciences and Humanities.

• Bulletin Points:

  • Will discuss unique Southwest Collection resources for creating a community profile

  • Will identify key federal government sources like Census, HHS, Interior, etc. for creating a community profile

  • Will provide resources for doing a site selection study.

• Presenter(s): Presenters: Tom Rohrig, Jake Syma, Freedonia Paschall