The Visual Language of Maps: A Virtual Visit to the Leventhal Map & Education Center with Rachel Mead

The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library has over 200,000 maps in its collection, with over 9,000 digitized and available via its online collection portal. It provides research support to scholars and historians, teaches classes on mapping data with GIS platforms, offers professional development to K-12 educators, and, in normal times, presents map-based lessons to 4000 students a year. It also curates and presents thematic exhibitions that explore how maps represent our world and the stories they tell. Join the Map Center for an up-close and personal tour of its current online exhibition, Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception and a collaborative and close look at a few historic maps of Holyoke. The presentation will leave you with many ways to explore your geographic interests!