ImageITHACA--As a result of a partnership between the Tompkins County Public Library and the Map and Geospatial Information Collection of Cornell University’s Olin Library, an exhibit of maps related to the 2007 Community Read, The Pickup, by Nadine Gordimer, is currently on exhibit at TCPL.

This exhibit has been shaped by an emphatic reading of the novel, which has led Susann Argetsinger, Map Assistant and Preservation Technician at Olin Library, and her colleagues to select maps which enhance our understanding of The Pickup.  Because the exhibit does not use original maps the exhibit runs concurrently at Olin Library.

This exhibit enables readers of The Pickup to visualize the places suggested in the novel and to understand some of the political history that has led to the situation in which main characters Abdu and Julie find themselves.

The exhibit will be on display at TCPL through September 2007.

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