About This Exhibit
This exhibition grew out of last year’s library dean’s fellows projects. Each semester, fellows work with librarians and faculty on strategic projects that help them learn new skills and share scholarship. Students were trained to use Omeka, Neo4j, and GIS technology to dig deeper into scholarly and primary sources. We wondered how new technologies have changed our ability to visualize large data sets? How have the inventions and discoveries of past centuries changed our perception of the universe? Curators from the Central Library, Special Collections, the Divinity Library, the Music Library, and Peabody Library identified items in the libraries’ collections that spoke to the way our world view has changed over the last six centuries.
Special thanks go to the following who made this exhibition possible:
Rocky Alvey, Director, and Lynn Maddox, Public Affairs, Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory
A. Berlind, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Amy Blackman, Donna Smith and Steve Green, Vanderbilt Creative Services
Nathan Griffin, Plant Operations
Don Hughes, Plant Operations
Victor Judge, Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs, Divinity School
Dr. Jonas G. King and Professor Julián F. Hillyer, Department of Biological Sciences
Dr. Robert Lupton [Princeton University] and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Collaboration and Dr. Andreas
Dr. Elizabeth Moodey, Assistant Professor, History of Art
Pamela J. Morgan, Lender
Dr. Robert O’Dell, Distinguished Research Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Rabbi Laurie Rice and the Congregation Micah
Dr. Hanna Roman, Assistant Professor, French & Italian Department
Mike Smith, Gilbert|McLaughlin|Casella Architects
James Thweatt and Christopher Ryland, Eskind Biomedical Library Special Collections
The Vanderbilt Dyer Observatory, Lender