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

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

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