science in special collections: primary sources, inquiry, and information literacy j. wendel cox...

Science in Special Collections: Primary Sources, Inquiry, and Information Literacy

J. Wendel Cox Senior Special Collection Librarian

Western History/Genealogy DepartmentDenver Public Library

Colorado TLD 2013March 1, 2013

Libraries

Special Collections

Primary Sources

History

Science

Diverse Collections

Diverse Users

Science, Technology, Engineering,and

Mathematics

Railroads

Library of Congress. Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Survey/Historic American Landscape Survey. RAILROAD, RR. BRIDGE MISSISSIPPI, CLAY CO., Detail: Turn machinery.

Oceans of Air

Library of Congress. Technical illustration shows four stages of André Garnerin's parachute: apparatus for inflating a balloon with hydrogen, a balloon in flight, parachute attached to ascending balloon, and parachute deployed in descent. Etching between 1860 and 1880.

Transforming the Night

Library of Congress. Singer Tower illuminated, New York City. c. 1909.

The Terror of Milk

Library of Congress. Milk truckers .... Ohio : WPA Art Program, [between 1936 and 1940].

Directions

History of Science

Scientific Inquiry

Science Past

Science PresentScience Present

“An Entirely Synthetic Fish”

Anders Halverson. An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the

World.

Richard A. Minnich. California’s Fading Wildflowers: Lost Legacy and

Biological Invasions.

Steven Johnson. The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic -- and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern

World.

SourcesSources

Meriwether Lewis. Eulachon (Thaleichthys pacificus), February 24, 1806, Codex J, pp. 93 American Philosophical Society Library.

Librarians

Science in Special Collections: Primary Sources, Inquiry, and Information Literacy

J. Wendel Cox Senior Special Collection Librarian

Western History/Genealogy DepartmentDenver Public Library

Colorado TLD 2013March 1, 2013