Collaborative map projection

After watching Jacqueline Goss's flash animation THERE THERE SQUARE we each drew a map of the United States on individual transparencies and laid them on top of each other on the overhead projector, see?

WEEK 12: The Library II: The Cosmos

(a map of every space probe sent out into the void)

Today was our second trip to the fantastic Special Collections Library, and the subject was Visualizing the Cosmos, Physics and other Equations. First Librarian Greg read a poem to us aloud from this lovely book:

Ashley presiding over the artist books table, note the Fresnel's Tower telescoping cylinder book!

 Do you know what a palm leaf book is?

Guy reading a Samuel Delaney graphic sci-fi novel

Librarian Barb was inspired to whip out her iPhone and show us her new app called SkyView, which I promptly downloaded, here's an image I made with it :