May 1-30, 2008

Monroe County Public Library

Are you interested in seeing science from above? Curious to see what impact one single person or invention can have? Keen to find pockets of innovation? Desperate for better tools to manage the information flood? Or are you simply fascinated by maps? Then visit the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit at on display at the Monroe County Public Library May 1 - May 30, 2007.

The exhibit aims to demonstrate the power of maps to navigate and make sense of physical places and abstract topic spaces. The display at the MCPL features the first two of ten iterations of the Places & Spaces exhibit entitled 'The Power of Maps' and 'The Power of Reference Systems'. Also shown are Illuminated Diagram displays by W. Bradford Paley, Kevin Boyack, John Burgoon, Peter Kennard, and Richard Klavans and Worldprocessor globes by Ingo Günther, and hands-on science maps for kids with paintings by Fileve Palmer. Beginning May 18th, the exhibit will also include illustrations of science by our Kids Drawing Contest winners.

Scientists will be stimulated, students and teachers encouraged, and the general public fascinated by this multi-layered accessible approach to the worlds of modern scientific thought.


Kids Drawing Contest

Kids Drawing Contest Update
Our kids contest was a great success! We received 123 entries, of which 3 winners were announced on June 1st, at the Monroe County Public Library. An awards ceremony was held from 4:30 to 6:00.

 

Exhibit Curators

Dr. Katy Börner <katy@indiana.edu> and Julie Smith <julmsmit@indiana.edu>
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Local Exhibit Curators

Margaret Harter <mharter@monroe.lib.in.us> from the Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington IN

Address

Monroe County Public Library,
Lower Level inside the Kirkwood entrance
303 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47408

 

Maps On Display

Additional Elements


 

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Acknowledgements

Places & Spaces is curated by Dr. Katy Börner and Julie Smith, School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University. Places & Spaces also receives input from the Advisory Board listed on the website. Margaret Harter, Community Relations for MCPL, is the adviser for the exhibit.

Special thanks for the new Illuminated Diagram Displays go to Indiana University UITS. Specifically, we would like to thank Eric Wernert for the conception and design and his work with Chris Eller on the manufacture of the display, Chris Eller and Pooja Gupta for their work installing the display at MCPL, and to Bruce Herr and Elisha Hardy for their work editing and reprinting the map images.

Places & Spaces is sponsored by National Science Foundation awards IIS-0238261 and CHE-0524661; Thomson Scientific; the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, University Information Technology Services, and the School of Library and Information Science, all three at Indiana University. Much of the data used to generate the science maps is from Thomson Scientific.