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

Science in Special Collections: Primary Sources, Inquiry, and Information Literacy . J. Wendel Cox Senior Special Collection Librarian Western History/Genealogy Department Denver Public Library. Colorado TLD 2013 March 1, 2013. Libraries. Special Collections. Primary Sources. History.

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

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  1. Science in Special Collections: Primary Sources, Inquiry, and Information Literacy J. Wendel Cox Senior Special Collection Librarian Western History/Genealogy Department Denver Public Library Colorado TLD 2013 March 1, 2013

  2. Libraries

  3. Special Collections

  4. Primary Sources

  5. History

  6. Science

  7. Diverse Collections

  8. Diverse Users

  9. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

  10. Railroads

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

  12. Oceans of Air

  13. 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.

  14. Transforming the Night

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

  16. The Terror of Milk

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

  18. Directions

  19. History of Science

  20. Scientific Inquiry

  21. Science Past

  22. Science Present Science Present

  23. “An Entirely Synthetic Fish”

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

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

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

  27. Sources Sources

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

  29. Librarians

  30. Science in Special Collections: Primary Sources, Inquiry, and Information Literacy J. Wendel Cox Senior Special Collection Librarian Western History/Genealogy Department Denver Public Library Colorado TLD 2013 March 1, 2013

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