You are invited to join the Opening Reception of the Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit at the Science, Industry and Business Library of The New York Public Library, New York, NY on Monday, April 3, 2006, 6:00-7:30pm. WHAT: Today, the word "science" encompasses myriad arenas of physical and abstract inquiry. This unique exhibition, at the Healy Hall in midtown Manhattan, uses innovative mapping techniques to physically show what and where science is today, how different branches of science relate to each other and where different branches of study are heading, where cutting edge science is erupting as archipelagos in the oceans of the yet unknown - and - how it all relates back to the physical centers of research. The world of science is turned into a navigable landscape. Modern mapping imagery has come a long way from Ptolemy. In this stimulating show compelling for all ages and backgrounds, audiences will both visually and tactilely uncover how contemporary scientific thought has expanded. Such visualization of scientific progress is approached through computer-generated relationships, featured on large panels as well through the collaboration of New York based artists W. Bradford Paley, Digital Image Design Incorporated and Columbia University and Ingo Gunther with renowned scientist from the field of scientonometrics: Eugene Garfield, Henry Small, André Skupin, Steven A. Morris, Kevin W. Boyack and Dick Klavans. Scientists will be stimulated, students and teachers encouraged, and the general public fascinated by this multi-layered accessible approach to the worlds of modern scientific thought. WHEN: On Display April 3rd - August 31h, 2006 | Exhibit Opening is on April 3rd, 2006, 6-7:30pm WHERE: Healey Hall <http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/exhib/sibl/siblexhibdesc.cfm?id=421> at the Science, Industry and Business Library of The New York Public Library 188 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 (212) 592-7000 For information about this exhibit, please see: http://vw.indiana.edu/places&spaces/nypl http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/exhib/sibl/uelistsibl.cfm (online exhibit available here) http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/imagesexhib/places.pdf (exhibit brochure in PDF) Enjoy, Dr. Katy Börner <mailto:katy@indiana.edu>, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN <katy@indiana.edu <mailto:katy@indiana.edu>> Deborah MacPherson <mailto:debmacp@gmail.com>, Accuracy&Aesthetics, Washington, D.C. <debmacp@gmail.com <mailto:debmacp@gmail.com>> (Exhibit Curators) -- Katy Borner, Associate Professor Information Science & Cognitive Science Indiana University, SLIS 10th Street & Jordan Avenue Phone: (812) 855-3256 Fax: -6166 Main Library 019 E-mail: katy@indiana.edu Bloomington, IN 47405, USA WWW: ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy Check out the new InfoVis Lab Gallery at http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy/gallery/