the LINES Vanderbilt University, 2016–17 RESEARCH and from the LEARNING UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN Places and Spaces International exhibit unites students, faculty and staff in celebrating mapping technology Dear colleagues and friends, ast spring, the Vanderbilt Heard Libraries hosted Places & Spaces: Mapping Science, It is my pleasure to share with you Between the Lines, a publication of an international exhibition the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries. In words, numbers and images, celebrating the use of data we offer a glimpse into the many ways our libraries support and enhance Lvisualizations to make sense of large MAPPING SCIENCE teaching, learning and research at Vanderbilt. Between the Lines will data streams in groundbreaking ways. introduce you to the remarkable things happening in the libraries and The campuswide exhibit proved to be perhaps even challenge your perception of the roles of libraries and intellectually enriching and socially unifying, according to campus leaders. librarians. We are grateful to the many donors and friends who made “The Places & Spaces: Mapping Science much of this work possible. exhibit brought together students, faculty and staff to celebrate technological The past academic year has been one of change for Vanderbilt’s Heard advances in data visualization that Libraries with new faces, new library services, new spaces and new facilitate our understanding of the world I programs. It has also been a year of continuity as we build collections, around us,” says Cynthia J. Cyrus, vice make resources accessible and provide contemplative and collaborative provost for learning and residential affairs. “From the disciplines of science and Ptolemy’s Cosmo- spaces for research and study. Though we may use new tools and medicine to history, art, education and graphia World Map, innovative approaches, the best part of what we do remains the human 1478, which was literature, the exhibit showcased how part of the exhibit, is interactions that take place every day among library staff, faculty, students educational technologies can facilitate an early look at the and members of the community. In short, the library is evolving while learning across a variety of disciplines.” relationship of planets and the weather. remaining true to its essence as a place of information and knowledge In partnership with the exhibit, John working in partnership with those who research, teach and learn. Sloop, associate provost for digital Director of the Wond’ry. “The illuminated the Wild Bunch by alumnus David Blum, a learning, and a group of 13 faculty, diagram display at the Wond’ry gave 1977 graduate and founder of the group. staff and students organized a program visitors a chance to explore science and The Wild Bunch Fund, established We are preparing for the coming year by assessing our collections, hiring of special events focused on data its impact on humanity in an interactive, in 1997 to honor the late Chancellor JOHN RUSSELL strategic positions and undertaking renovations. I hope you like what you Hotchkiss visualization in support of the education visual way that is rarely possible.” Alexander Heard and his wife, Jean Heard, see and that you will continue to follow the activities and news of the technologies pillar of the Academic The libraries also held a competition sponsored the Places & Spaces: Mapping Heard Libraries as an active member of our community. Strategic Plan. As part of the program, in which students used innovation to Science program. Over the years, the Wild the Wond’ry at the Innovation Pavilion present objects, ideas and data in a visual Bunch Fund has supported the acquisition Valerie Hotchkiss welcomed 49 students to four data or nontraditional way. Ben Shapiro, a of hundreds of books for the library as visualization workshops where they doctoral student at Vanderbilt Peabody well as lectures and special programs. University Librarian learned about creating illustrations, College for education and human “We were honored to host Places & Professor of English interactive data analysis, visualizing data development, and Blake Quigley, an Spaces and to welcome its curator to and how to use a GoPro camera. undergraduate majoring in computer our library,” University Librarian Valerie On the cover: Alphabet card, France, early “Places & Spaces was unique in science, earned first-place awards in the Hotchkiss says. “This is a great example of 19th century. George Clulow–United States blending art, technology and science and graduate and undergraduate categories. the way the libraries support research and Playing Card Company Gaming Collection, Vanderbilt University Special Collections. was an excellent example of the power They received their awards in April and, learning with both traditional resources Read more about Vanderbilt’s newest of trans-institutional collaborations,” says along with other competitors, discussed and cutting-edge tools.” collection on page 8. Robert Grajewski, Evans Family Executive their projects prior to being inducted into 1 The University of Nashville Collection: Teaching Librarians and students explore augmented reality the next generation of catalogers Library Fellow Christina Wang, a sophomore majoring in medicine, health Vanderbilt’s Special Collections staff often mentor new and society, worked with Vanderbilt librarians to build an augmented reality librarians and specialists in the area of rare books and environment using a 3-D camera, powerful simulation software and a data archives. This year, a partnership with the University of projector. The project used visualization applications to create a virtual Tennessee, Knoxville, extended internships to graduate landscape in a real sandbox. Users could shift the sand, which was then students in information science. Working with Vanderbilt augmented in real time to show how shifting topology can impact geographic, librarians and conservators, the students learned specialized geologic and hydrologic changes. The experience helped students learn to read cataloging practices to help process monographs from the a topographical map and to understand such concepts as watersheds, levees and University of Nashville Collection (1826–1909). The catchment areas. Wang debuted the sandbox to great acclaim at the opening of the Wondr’y at the Innovation Pavilion, Vanderbilt’s new cross-disciplinary University of Nashville eventually was renamed Peabody t Normal College (1889) and then George Peabody College innovation space. for Teachers (1911), which merged with Vanderbilt in JON ERICKSON 1979. Collectively, these books reveal thes education L-R: Brenda Thompson, librarian Sara Sterkenburg and Brooke Jackson practices of a 19th-century university. processing monographs from the University of Nashville Collection. Edward Emerson Barnard, [Solar Eclipse, 1889], Edward Emerson Barnard Papers, Vanderbilt Digital Salon exposes Vanderbilt to University Special Collections innovations in scholarship The 2017 Digital Salon series, co-hosted by Vanderbilt Heard Introducing students to Libraries and the Center for Digital Humanities, offered a primary sources: E.E. Barnard chance for the community to explore innovative digital tools Collection and the solar eclipse and projects across a range of disciplines. Speakers included During the August 2017 solar eclipse, Jonathan Gilligan (environmental studies), Rogers Hall the Heard Libraries hosted an (teaching and learning), and the library’s Ramona Romero exhibition on the work of American (classical studies), Philip Walker (biomedicine), and Valerie astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard Hotchkiss (women’s studies). Each event also includeds time (1857–1823). Best known for his for discussion and networking with colleagues. discovery of Amalthea, the fifth moon of Jupiter, Barnard got his start in Sound mind, sound body: Developing a JON ERICKSON Nashville as an errand boy for a local relationship with student-athletes Christina Wang at the opening of the Wond’ry photographer. With the support of Vanderbilt University, he became During the summer, first-year student-athletes toured the Prepare to Practice at Vanderbilt Law Library an astronomer and spent a lifetime libraries, met librarians and engaged in competitive exercises observing and photographing the sky. designed to teach information literacy. In the academic Prepare to Practice: Law Library, a program designed and The exhibition, which was curated year, the library formally partners with the Stratton Foster organized by librarians at the Alyne Queener Massey Law by four graduate astronomy students Academic Support Center to provide weekly services at Library, wrapped up its fourth year at Vanderbilt Law from Vanderbilt and the Fisk- McGugin Center, assisting student-athletes with library and School. Speakers from the local bar association, vendors, Vanderbilt Master’s-to-Ph.D. Bridge research skills. Librarians frequently work with the academic law firms and the faculty shared their expertise, making program, drew on collections housed counselors who, through their regular contact with the law students even more practice-ready. Presentations in Special Collections, as well as loans athletes, can promote the libraries’ role in student success. s focused on research tools used in practice with a wide from private collectors. range of approaches. Student attendance doubled from last year, which signifies a growing response to a now- institutionalized program. 2 3 OUTREACH and ENGAGEMENT Archives, museums and libraries: Cultural Heritage