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HEDGEHOGNUMBER 63 • SPRING 2019

THE OF APOLLO

INSIDE Geologist looks to library for answers page 8 The Balance of Preservation page 10 Exploring The American Woods page 12 President’s Message Library News

Apollo 11 Was Michelle Lahey a Triumph in the September 29, 1957 – February 13, 2019 Standing in wet grass in Turbulent 1960s St. Joseph, , he tumultuous 1960s began with waiting for the solar eclipse Ta youthful president’s exhortation on August 21, 2017, to send astronauts safely to the moon Michelle Lahey passed and back. It ended with that aspiration around some home- accomplished. But the tumultuous baked treats. Knowing that Michelle and years in between were filled with chaos, dissent, and a sense her husband, Ken, had recently committed that a corner had been turned. to a healthier diet I asked, “are these heart- healthy?” “They are,” Michelle answered, “in Political assassinations plunged the nation into grief three times the sense that they were baked with love.” in seven years. Civil unrest was everywhere at once, spawned by protest movements espousing causes as diverse as civil That is how Michelle Lahey approached life. rights, women’s liberation, the draft, and a war in Southeast From her family, friends, and her unalloyed Asia that was further dividing the country. devotion to the Kansas City Royals, to her work at the Linda Hall Library, Michelle led Respite from the chaos came from two events each altering with her heart. That defining quality has the culture forever. The soundtrack for the 1960s arose from made Michelle’s death on February 13, 2019 a weeklong music festival in a pasture near Woodstock, New from ALS so heartbreaking for us. Michelle York. Years later, it remains a touchstone in popular culture. was a member of the Library’s public Only weeks before, the men aboard Apollo 11 left earth, landed services staff for over fifteen years, the on the moon, and traveled safely back to earth, bringing the last four as Head of Public Services. A decade to a close on a euphoric note. The contact high was natural leader, Michelle was a consummate temporary for few could predict the travails awaiting us. But the professional who applied her reference “great leap for mankind” ushered in the next age of exploration librarian’s skills to all who needed her help. and for those brief moments on the moon’s surface, and the celebrations afterward, the flight ofApollo 11 left our nation Michelle’s quest for information, coupled with feeling renewed, expansive, and invincible once more. the concern she had for others, will continue. She has donated brain and spine samples The near-giddiness engulfing the country in the aftermath of to the University of Miami ALS Clinical the first moon landing often obscured the years of work of and Research Center in the hope that her many, the trial and error, and the science and contribution will extend knowledge about the talent needed to put a man on the moon. To the Moon: The disease that claimed her life and help find an Science of Apollo remedies that. By focusing on the work eventual cure. Of this final gesture of grace, I performed for years by earth-bound scientists, this exhibition can only say, “how typical of Michelle.” pays tribute to the brave men who traveled into space and celebrates the work of those who made the trip possible. Michelle’s work will continue as the rest of us endeavor to fill a large void. Few know as much as she about science and technology reference sources. Few possess Michelle’s disarming smile and manor. Michelle Lahey set Lisa M. Browar, President a high standard for herself that her friends and colleagues will work long and hard to match. On the cover: Buzz Aldrin descending from the Apollo 11 lunar module on July 20, 1969. –Lisa Browar Photo credit: NASA. Image number as11-40-5866. 2 Library News

Annual Bartlett Lecture to Explore Dark Matter, Black Holes in the Universe The search for dark matter in the universe and the professors to speak on identification of colliding black holes will be the subject of subjects related to the Linda the 17th Annual Paul D. Bartlett, Sr. lecture with speaker Hall Library´s collections. Priyamvada Natarajan, professor in the Departments of and Physics at Yale University. Paul D. Bartlett, Sr. was elected chairman of the Natarajan is a theoretical astrophysicist interested Linda Hall Library Board in cosmology, gravitational lensing, and black of Trustees at its first hole physics. Her research involves mapping the meeting in 1941. Under distribution of dark matter in the universe, using the his leadership the Halls’ bending of light coming to us from distant galaxies. bequest for the creation of a Priyamvada Natarajan public library in Kansas City She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010, was used to establish this library devoted to science, and a Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) engineering and technology. Mr. Bartlett served on the Fellowship at the University of Colorado and has been Board until his death in 1964. a visiting professor at the Institute for Theory and Computation at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for The lectures are presented by the Linda Hall Library Astrophysics. She is the author of Mapping the Heavens: in association with the Harvard-Radcliffe Club of The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos. Kansas City, the Princeton Alumni Association of Greater Kansas City, and the Yale Club of Kansas City. The annual Paul D. Bartlett, Sr. Lecture was A limited number of seats for the Bartlett Lecture will established in 2003 to bring the finest university be available on April 9 at lindahall.org.

SPRING FELLOWS Four Fellows Scheduled to Conduct Research This Spring The Linda Hall Library will welcome four new fellows to Veins and Dusty Lungs: Water, Public Health, and the conduct research this spring. Environmental Legacies of Industry in Modern Mexico, 1834-1945, which will be published by the University of Jordan Bimm, a post-doctoral scholar at Princeton Nebraska Press. University, arrived at the Library in January to research early American astrobiology, primarily military life-on-Mars Sadegh Foghani will conduct research on the studies that were conducted in the 1950s. In February, development of reproductive biomedicine, stem cell, he presented his findings in a lecture, “Astronauts and and animal biotechnology in Iran from the 1990s to the Astrobiology: Military Space Science Before Apollo.” present. At the Library, he will explore the relationship between American pragmatism and the development Rocio Gomez will look into scientific discovery in the of religious and political thought of Mehdi Bazargan, age of revolution. An assistant professor of History at the first prime minister of post-revolutionary Iran. the University of Arkansas, Gomez earned her PhD Foghani earned his PhD in history from the University from the University of Arizona and is the author of Silver of South Carolina.

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3 4 TO THE MOON

AND BACK APOLLO 11’s F-1 ENGINE

he components of the F-1 engines that propelled Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Mike Collins to T the moon in 1969 now bear evidence of a fierce impact with the surface of the Atlantic Ocean and about 40 years spent on the ocean floor. Together, five F-1s sat at the base of the first stage of the Saturn V rocket, and the 138-foot-tall S-IC. When the S-IC stage was exhausted, it fell away and landed in the Atlantic Ocean at a speed of roughly 200 miles per hour. The stage, along with the F-1 engine, sank 14,000 feet to the ocean floor, where they would remain until 2013.

With 1.5-million pounds of thrust, the F-1 engine was the most powerful single-nozzle, liquid- fueled rocket engine in history. Engineers at Rocketdyne first conceived of the engine in 1955, two years before any human-made object orbited in space. After NASA’s creation in 1958, the agency revived the F-1 engine concept, and Rocketdyne tested the first full-size prototype in 1961.

NASA aerospace engineer Wernher von Braun stands beside an F-1 engine of the Saturn V rocket. Photo credit: NASA. Image number NAS 1.21-350.

5 Now that the Apollo 11 F-1 engine parts are on dry land, they can once again be part of our lives. They have the power to create new experiences and inspire new generations.

The design of the F-1 was a scaled-up version of along the Apollo 11 flight path using deep-sea sonar. the company’s other engines, but fabrication of the For nearly three weeks, they retrieved thrust chambers, massive engine required new manufacturing and gas generators, injectors, heat exchangers, turbopumps, testing techniques. Each engine consumed 6,000 fuel manifolds, and other hardware, all deformed, but pounds of RP-1, a form of kerosene, and liquid oxygen recognizable as parts from the Apollo moon missions. every second. Five F-1 engines clustered together launched the massive Saturn V into space with 7.5-million Bezos Expeditions sent the recovered components to pounds of thrust at liftoff. Launch after launch, F-1s the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center (KCSC) propelled all the lunar missions without failure. for conservation. Instead of restoring the pieces to their original launch condition, conservators stabilized More than 40 years after the artifacts and removed corrosion. As Jim Remar, the first lunar landing, Jeff president and chief executive officer of the KCSC, Bezos, founder of Amazon explained, “The artifacts have a story and a life. We and the aerospace didn’t want to do anything that changed their look company Blue Origin, or appearance because that would take away some wondered if “with the of the story.” During the stabilization process, the right team of undersea conservators found markings proving that some of pros, could we find and these components were part of Apollo 11. potentially recover the F-1 engines that started Why preserve the artifacts of spaceflight? Why do mankind’s mission to physical remnants of history matter to us? Why did Neil the moon?” In 2011, he Armstrong bring pieces of the Wright Flyer to the moon? created Bezos Expeditions Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard stands by the flag. Photo credit: to seek out and recover When asked why he recovered the F-1 engine parts, NASA. Image number AS14-66-9232. the F-1 components Jeff Bezos offered an explanation. “Millions of people from the ocean floor. were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years The team searched an old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, area of one nautical mile and without any doubt, it was a big contributor to my 6 (LEFT) Work on the F-1 engines stored in the F-1 Engine Preparation Shop. Photo Credit: NASA. Image number 6521185. (ABOVE) Buzz Aldrin’s boot print on the Moon, part of the Apollo 11 Boot Penetration Soil Experiment. Photo Credit: NASA. Image number AS11-40-5877.

passions for science, engineering, and exploration.” brothers’ flight with the shard of wood and piece of fabric, Bezos worked with NASA to make the Apollo 11 F-1 Apollo artifacts can connect us to the first moon missions. engine components available to the Smithsonian The F-1 engine parts, like the Wright Flyer pieces and the National Air and Space Museum, in the hope that they other artifacts, or the thousands more at the Smithsonian could once again inspire future generations. Institution, have the power to render lunar exploration tangible instead of abstract. Artifacts make Project Apollo Now that the Apollo 11 F-1 engine parts are on dry more than memory alone; they make it a palpable, and land, they can once again be part of our lives. They visitable, part of our present. have the power to create new experiences and inspire new generations. Like other artifacts, the F-1 engine This article is an excerpt from the book Apollo components carry marks of their history. Before they were to the Moon: A History in 50 Objects by Teasel launched, the F-1 engines impressed with their scale and Muir-Harmony, National Geographic, 2018. intricate design, but the flown engine parts communicate something different. These battered fragments bear witness to the repercussions of a journey to the moon. You can experience immense size, the tremendous forces they were subjected to, and the significant risks inherent in launching – and riding – a spacecraft to the moon. You can see the damage from their ocean impact and the corrosion from years underwater. They connect us THE F-1 ENGINE PARTS… to Project Apollo; to the engineers who designed, tested, and built them; to the astronauts who flew to the moon; to the crew who recovered HAVE THE POWER TO them; and to the conservators who stabilized them for years to come. RENDER LUNAR EXPLORATION Just as Armstrong connected TANGIBLE INSTEAD OF ABSTRACT. his experience to the Wright

7 Meet a Supporter

Geologist Looked to the Library for Answers to Complex Questions

Bill Shefchik visited Scotland in 2014, one of many trips influenced by his deep love of geology. The standing stones, arranged in a circle near Loch Tay, in the Highlands of Scotland, were derived by Stone-Age people from the billion- year-old (Precambrian) schist bedrock of the region.

Bill Shefchik and Eileen Chase have an extensive personal rock collection. The top shelf of their collection includes small chunks of rock that show evidence of significant events, including faulting, folding of rock strata, and the underground flow of magma, among other Earth processes.

eologists are part scientists, part detectives. For Bill level or folded; saturated or dry? How thick is the soil GShefchik, who worked at Burns & McDonnell as a overburden? Is there earthquake potential?” geologist for more than 36 years, the Linda Hall Library provided the evidence in solving some of his biggest cases. Major engineering projects, such as power plants, dams, water-treatment plants, bridges, and airports, often Shefchik, who retired in 2013, estimated that he visited include heavy structures with concentrated loads on the Library more than 100 times throughout his career, a small footprint or involve deep excavation. Because drawing upon maps, technical journals, and of this, design engineers work with geologists like for his research. Shefchik’s 500-plus projects at Burns Shefchik to answer questions about the bedrock and soil, & McDonnell included one-page memoranda that often including strength, layering, the angle of any tilted layers, took 45 minutes to write, while others required reports and lateral variation. that took months, or even several years, to complete. Shefchik said his research often began in Burns “They were all stimulating, interesting, and challenging,” & McDonnell’s own technical library, looking up Shefchik said. “Many of them were like detective stories. publications and examining maps. Often, I had to piece together complex, or messy, or unusual data to understand the geology of a site. “The next step for a large project would be to go to Linda What is the bedrock? Is it thick or thin; solid or weak; Hall Library, because it is thousands of times more vast 8 than any corporation’s technical library,” Shefchik said. “It’s a huge, thrilling, and almost bottomless well Lessons Learned of information. on the Job

Bill Shefchik presented “Down-to-Earth Research at the Library saved clients Science: Some Powerful Little Tools in a great deal of money, Shefchik said. the Toolbox” in October 2017 at Iowa Knowing the basic conditions of rock State University. Learning on the job “is and soil ahead of time reduces cost fundamental, after you have absorbed and risks, both in investigative drilling the principles of science in school.” and during construction. In addition, Below are some of the principles that he shared with students at Iowa State: advance research often led to more realistic cost proposals for the client Respect your data and use your data. and enabled Burns & McDonnell to Learn your data better than anybody else, secure projects in the first place. Bill Shefchik poses with a tracked shovel that was so you can make solid recommendations used to excavate the shale bedrock and to create about the data, Shefchik said. Gather the Auxiliary Spillway alongside the previously what you need to gather. Understand your “For example, if you find that the existing Fort Smith Dam in Arkansas. anomalies and plot them visually. “If you depth to bedrock is likely to be 10 Becoming a geologist was not a have multiple data points and there is one feet instead of 400 feet, you know childhood aspiration for Shefchik, of them that doesn’t seem to fit, don’t just to budget for a small, lower-cost but it evolved as a natural choice, as throw it out. You need to understand why rig to do the exploratory drilling,” he and his four siblings were raised it doesn’t fit,” he said. “If you understand Shefchik said. “You’re a long way by both parents to be “very open to the data better than anybody else, you’ll be able to understand why it doesn’t fit. ahead of someone who hasn’t done receiving knowledge.” Shefchik also The anomaly sometimes can teach you a the literature search and thus doesn’t had the opportunity to work part-time great deal about your site.” have prior knowledge of the basic in his parents’ pharmacy for seven site geology. years, to pay for college. Don’t stretch your data; say only what you know. For the last 25 years of his career, “Likewise, if you are assisting High school science classes caused Shefchik served as a technical expert a client in a dispute about the a significant awakening. It was at in litigation support for clients who origin and spread of groundwater that time that Shefchik began to learn were in lawsuits. Again, he frequently contamination beneath properties, more about the magnificence of the returned to the Linda Hall Library for you are much more able to help Earth and its scientific complexities, in-depth geological research. “As an the involved parties reach a fair leading him to earn bachelor’s and expert, you not only have to know the data better than anybody else but settlement than a consultant who master’s degrees in Geology from the also know the science – right down hasn’t done the research.” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. to the fundamentals – and coming to story continued on page 14 Linda Hall Library to get that technical knowledge was a great way to do that.” Visit www.lindahall.org/videos/ to view Bill Shefchik’s June 2018 Have you used the Linda Hall Library in lecture at the Linda Hall Library, “The Plate Tectonics History of your career? We would love to hear how the World, as Seen in Northern Scotland.” the Library has helped you in your work. Please email [email protected]. 9 Linda Hall Library and the Balance of Preservation

BY ASHLEY JONES n libraries, there is an expectation that materials will be well cared for and Preservation and Conservation Librarian kept in usable condition for as long as required by the library’s mission, Iwhich in turn creates a need for the practice of library preservation. Simply speaking, library preservation refers to actions or a set of activities that aim to prolong the life and usability of an item or object. Broken down into its fundamental components, preservation includes collections care, conservation, digital preservation, and disaster preparedness.

Preservation of materials in research and special libraries is even more imperative, as these types of institutions often act as permanent repositories that curate and shape their collections over many years, with an eye towards future research. The Linda Hall Library is no exception – it is a perfect example of a collection whose strengths exist because of institutional history and collecting philosophy. The Library has committed itself to serve as a print repository for science, technology, and engineering, and with that comes a responsibility towards preservation and long-term retention.

However, library preservation is not just about retention, it is also about access. Unlike a museum, the materials that are kept in libraries and archives are meant to be touched, handled, and used in a variety of ways. It can be difficult to balance the need to preserve and the need for access. Still, the role of preservation is not to deny access, but rather

Books in the cue for repairs or enclosures.

10 Books are documented before repairs are made to evaluate the book’s condition and the success of the repair. to guarantee it. Preservation strategies are often tied When the item itself has value, such as books of a certain to preserving the usability of an item, as demonstrated rarity, or a copy that was owned by an important figure, in the microfilming of newspapers, or the repair of a that must be taken into consideration when choosing book’s binding. a course of action. Some of the same techniques used on items of informational value are used in these In fact, many of the decisions that preservationists instances as well. Digital surrogates can be made for face revolve around how to preserve the item while still access purposes in order to limit wear and tear through providing access. When dealing with items that are “at handling. However, in the case of items with artifactual risk” – i.e. they are extremely fragile, or damaged in some value, the ability to view or handle the original item is way – the first preservation questions to ask are, what is often desired or necessary for research. Usually, this is important about this item? Is it the information contained when conservation treatment is utilized. Not only does within, or is it the item itself that holds value? conservation treatment stabilize the item and allow for continued handling, but it also considers preservation of The answer to this question goes a long way in the item’s artifactual value in reference to materials and determining a preservation course of action. If the binding structure when treatment decisions are made. answer is simply the information contained within is what has value then there are several preservation The Linda Hall Library uses many tried and true options available, such as microfilming or digitization preservation strategies to meet the needs of its collections – strategies known as reformatting. Of course, at the as well as the needs of its users. Over the years, various Linda Hall Library, original items are kept even after they preservation strategies have been put into place including have been reformatted. Additionally, steps are taken to commercial binding, enclosures and simple book repair, continue preserving the original item through protective environmental controls, and security. Some of the most enclosures and use of the surrogate copy for access, effective preservation measures might be described which cuts down on wear and tear from handling. A as collection-wide activities. Strategies such as stable, strategy for formats especially susceptible to damage moderate environments, and proper storage and handling from use, such as journals and serials, is to send those techniques have a huge impact on the life and condition items to a commercial bindery to be bound together for of library materials. Additionally, these strategies have the better protection and stabilization. potential to reach a far greater portion of the collection story continued on page 14 11 Collections

Hough’s patented process enabled him to create business cards and greeting cards from wood. The American Woods: Exhibited by Actual Specimens and with Copious Explanatory Text, Romeyn Hough, 1888-1928.

Exploring The American Woods BY JASON W. DEAN Vice President for Special Collections

ince arriving at the Linda Hall Library last fall, discovery. The Linda Hall Library has many of these, but one of my pleasures has been getting to know the one I sought out was Romeyn Hough’s The American Sthe collection. With a collection as deep as the Woods. I remembered this item, because it is not actually Library’s it can be complicated to grasp. a book, but a collection of 1,056 thinly sliced wood samples in 14 volumes. I was delighted to find that we had “How do you learn what is in the collection?” is a question a complete set. I’ve answered when meeting patrons at the Library since I arrived in October of last year. I have consulted well- Hough, trained as a botanist at Cornell, graduated in known bibliographies, including Bern Dibner’s Heralds 1881. In 1886, he received a patent for his process of of Science and Harrison Horblit’s One Hundred Books making thin slices of wood that were suitable for use Famous in Science. I’ve spoken with my colleagues as cards but were also translucent when backlit. This about the collections and reviewed past exhibition invention allowed him to create microscope slides and catalogs. Perhaps the most enjoyable for me is looking to business cards from these wood slices, but also enabled see if we have books I’ve known in previous institutions, him to work on The American Woods during the final 25 or as I call them, “old friends.” years of his life. The process allowed him to create slices as thin as 1/2000-inch thick. Early in my career, I worked at the library of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas. Why this work? Romeyn’s father, Franklin B. Hough, During that time, I worked on a joint exhibition with the was America’s first Forest Service Chief, and he wrote Botanical Research Institute of Texas in a show that the landmark Report on Forestry of 1887. Franklin was featured important works of and botanical alarmed by the rapid depletion of the North American 12 forests, outlining his views in On the Duty of Governments in the Preservation of Forests, presented at the 1873 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (a copy of which the Library holds). It was, perhaps, his father’s views on the need to preserve the forests of North America that led Romeyn Hough to his lifelong work.

On the shelf, The American Woods: Exhibited by Actual Specimens and with Copious Explanatory Text looks like any late 19th- or early 20th-century American multivolume book set. It is bound in green cloth, embossed to appear as though bound in fine goatskin (called morocco in the field) and stamped in blind and gilt with title and volume information. However, try to open the item as one would a book and one is presented with a clasp. After opening the clasp, the interior case comes out, with a paper bound text volume and loose cards. Hough notes that the work is designed “primarily and principally to show, in as compact and perfect a manner as possible, authentic specimens of our American woods, both native and introduced. For that end three sections, respectively transverse, radial and tangential to the grain, are made of each timber, sufficiently thin to allow in a measure the transmission of light, and securely mounted in well-made frames.”

Of note is that a set of the 3rd edition (the Virginia Sumac from Hough’s The American Woods. Library holds the first edition) was featured on PBS’ Antiques Roadshow in 2013, appraised by Ken The Library’s 14 volumes of The American Woods Sanders. While individual volumes from the publication reside in the Library’s vault, due to the rarity of the set, are not unusual, a complete set is – as noted by as well as the stability of temperature and humidity in Bauman Rare Books in its description of an incomplete that space. The wood slices are especially sensitive set: “Because of the long time period over which the to changes in temperature and humidity and so its series was produced and the fact that many buyers only placement in the vault ensure its availability to users purchased the volumes for one region, few complete hundreds of years in the future, interested in the sets were ever assembled; only two are recorded as woods and forests of North America at the turn of the having been sold at auction in the past 25 years.” 20th century. 13 Linda Hall Library and the Balance of Preservation (continued from page 11) than a more item-specific strategy such as conservation Yet, while preservation is understood to be a treatment. This is not to say that item-specific strategies specific area of librarianship, success is dependent are not important to an overall preservation program. upon everyone who comes into contact with Successful programs will take all these different strategies the collections. The very nature of preservation into account to create a balance between needs, makes it a library-wide, and community-wide priorities, and available resources. activity. Preservation considerations are woven into everything a library does – from acquisition At the Linda Hall Library, much work has been decisions to the way books are shelved and done over the past year to develop a more holistic circulated. Preservation also depends on library preservation plan. A plan that will help with prioritization patrons and their awareness and willingness to treat and resource allocation; ensure follow through on library materials with careful handling and a thought preservation projects and initiatives; and create clear towards future users. Preservation now means policies, procedures, and documentation. access for years to come.

Longtime Geologist Looked to the Library for Answers to Complex Questions (continued from page 9)

He also enjoyed that geology intersected with his love In Iceland, Eileen Chase lies at the edge of the 1,000-foot-high of being outdoors, which Shefchik described as a “huge Látrabjarg Cliffs, watching some benefit of the job.” Visiting sites all over the country, of the million Kittiwakes, Guillemots, and Puffins that nest on the black with different geology, allowed him to learn more about lava cliffs in the summer. the Earth and Earth processes. He and his wife, Eileen Chase, often plan vacations around specific geological sites that they wish to see – often based upon research Shefchik speaks positively of the Linda Hall Library as a done at the Linda Hall Library. Kansas City institution. In modern culture, he said, it is challenging to get reasonable information about science. “Then, when you go into the field and see it, you’re It often falls between two extremes, he said. learning about the Earth at a whole new level,” Shefchik said. “Every project site I went to provided a “At one end of the spectrum are oversimplified tremendous learning experience.” summaries, so broad as to be almost useless,” Shefchik said, “and at the other end of the spectrum we find the Shefchik and Chase joined the Linda Hall Library enormously technical and complex information in most Foundation’s major donor group, the President’s scientific publications.” Circle, in late 2017 to show their increasing support for the Library. Shefchik also presented the lecture The Linda Hall Library, Shefchik said, does well in bridging “The Plate Tectonics History of the World, as Seen the gap between the two extremes, with its exhibitions, in Northern Scotland” in June 2018 at the Library, lectures, and especially with its vast collections, which in addition to serving as a guest lecturer at Iowa cover every point on the complexity spectrum. State University’s Department of Geological and Atmospheric in October 2017, as well as “If there’s something you want to know about science,” the Omaha Section of the Association of Engineering he said, “you have a premier place right inside those big, Geologists in November 2018. bronze doors.” 14 Library News Calendar of Events

SPRING FELLOWS “The Science of Apollo” Space historian Andrew Chaikin will moderate a panel (continued from page 3) 3.28 that includes Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt. John Bukowski, a professor of mathematics at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, will “Roving Down the Road Towards Understanding conduct research for a week as the Habitability of Mars” the recipient of a travel grant. He 4.11 John Grant, Geologist at the Smithsonian Center for will study the work of 16th- and Earth and Planetary Studies 17th-century mathematicians. Bukowski earned his PhD in applied “Sabermetrics and the Empirical Analysis of Baseball” mathematics from Brown University. A Second Saturday Conversation with Dr. Daniel Mack 4.13 Senior Director, Quantitative Analysis/ 2014 Fellow Earns Amateur Scouting with the Kansas City Royals

Prestigious Grant “Cosmic Tremors: The Quest for Library Fellowships can be Colliding Black Holes” Priyamvada Natarajan, Yale University important milestones in the 4.30 careers of scholars. Joana Gaspar 17th Annual Paul D. Bartlett, Sr. Lecture de Freitas, a 2014 Fellow, was awarded a prestigious European Research Council Starting Grant “Return to the Moon” last year. Gaspar de Freitas said Alicia Dwyer Cianciolo, Aerospace Engineer her research as a Linda Hall 5.09 NASA Langley Research Center Library Fellow was fundamental to her successful grant application. The material she found in the Library’s shelves was essential “Comprehending a Cube: in preparing her proposal to the Eighteen Months of Living with Euclid” 5.21 Russell Maret, designer, letterpress printer, typographer European Research Council.

In 2014, Gaspar de Freitas traveled from the New University of Lisbon Funding for To the Moon and related programs has been to conduct research at the Library provided by generous gifts from Mike and Millie Brown and presented “Against the Sand and the Burns & McDonnell Foundation. and Sea: Strategies on Coastal Defense” in November of that Can’t attend one of our evening lectures? year. A video of her presentation is Many of them are available on Livestream and Facebook Live, and later archived on the Library’s website at archived at lindahall.org. Follow us on Twitter or Facebook to learn more. www.lindahall.org/videos. All lectures are free and open to the public; however, e-tickets are required. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. to view the exhibition. Evening programs begin at 7:00 p.m. Find out more about these and other great programs, and register for tickets at: lindahall.org Assistive listening devices are available upon request. 15 LINDA HALL LIBRARY

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