Mapping Science exhibit opens in Beijing, China

[Katy Borner]

Places and Spaces: Mapping Science Exhibit
will be on display at

The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing, China
May 17th - June 30th, 2008


This will be the debut for the 4th iteration of this 10-year exhibit
entitled "Science Maps for Economic Decision Makers".

English Web page: http://scimaps.org/nslc/
Chinese Web page: http://scimaps.org/china/

Starting July 2008, the exhibit will travel to other branch libraries of
the Chinese Academy of Sciences including Lanzhou, Wuhan, and Chendu.

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You are cordially invited to attend the Exhibit Opening Reception in
Beijing that features introductions and brief talks by invited speakers
and guests, a guided tour of the exhibit by Weixia (Bonnie) Huang, and a
question and answering session. More than ten media will report the event.

    * Time: May 17th, 2008 9:00-11:30am
    * Venue: First floor exhibit hallway, the National Science Library
      of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
    * Address: BeiSiHuanXiLu, No.33, Beijing, China, 100190
    * Contact persons: JiangHong Chen, Hong Tian, ChangLi Tan
    * Phone: 86-10-62532095/62537444
    * Email: chuanbo at mail.las.ac.cn

Attached is the official Chinese invitation for the event.

Organizers are

    * Mapping Science exhibit curators and advisory board,
      http://scimaps.org/connect
    * The Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at School of
      Library and Information Science, Indiana University,
    * The Research Center for Grid and Service Computing (VEGA Center)
      at the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) of the Chinese
      Academy of Sciences (CAS), China, and
    * The National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Questions can be directed to Weixia (Bonnie) Huang <huangb at indiana.edu>.

Acknowledgements
The exhibit display in China is sponsored by National Science Foundation
awards IIS-0238261, CHE-0524661, IIS-0737783 and IIS-0715303; Thomson
Scientific; the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center,
University Information Technology Services, and the School of Library
and Information Science, all three at Indiana University. Much of the
data used to generate the science maps is from Thomson Scientific. We
thank the National Science Library of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
for all their support.

Other Venues
NSF, Washington D.C. <http://scimaps.org/exhibit/06-nsf1.jpg> There is a
permanent display of the first two iterations on the 10th floor of the
National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA.

NRC, Ottawa, Canada <http://scimaps.org/nrc>. The first three iterations
can be seen at National Research Council - Canada Institute for
Scientific and Technical Information <http://scimaps.org/nrc>, Ottawa,
Ontario, Canada, April 3 - June 27, 2008.

See also http://scimaps.org/schedule.php

-- 
Katy Borner, Victor H. Yngve Associate Professor of Information Science
Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center
School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University

10th Street & Jordan Avenue     Phone:  (812) 855-3256   Fax: -6166
Wells Library 021               E-mail: katy at indiana.edu
Bloomington, IN 47405, USA      WWW:    ella.slis.indiana.edu/~katy


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