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HP and MIT Create Non-Profit Organization to Support Growing Community of...
Today HP and the MIT Libraries announced the formation of the DSpace Foundation, a non-profit organization that will provide support to the growing community of organizations that use DSpace, an open...
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Gift Supports Life Science Collections
A $400,000 gift from the Clive W. Lacy and Mona M. Lacy Trusts was recently awarded to the Libraries to fund library collections in the life sciences. The gift will impact many areas of research at...
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Vail Balloon Prints to be Digitized
Thanks to the generosity of Thomas F. Peterson, Jr. ’57, the MIT Libraries will begin a project to digitize its Vail Balloon Print Collection. The prints are part of the Vail Collection, originally...
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Fall 2007 issue of BiblioTech hits newsstands
Read about MIT Libraries’ news in the latest issue of BiblioTech. In this issue: From the Director–a column by Ann Wolpert, Director of Libraries New Technologies–an article about the Libraries’ beta...
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Folk music and jazz purchased on the Pierce fund
Here are some recent music titles that have been purchased with an endowed fund that was established in honor of John N. Pierce ’54 (see history of the fund, below). Click on an image to see its...
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Opening celebration for MIT Libraries’ Maihaugen Gallery
On Friday, April 18, from 1-3pm the MIT Libraries will host a community celebration in honor of the opening of the Maihaugen Gallery. The newly constructed exhibit space will showcase some of the...
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Arthur D. Little, Inc. Archives Come to MIT
Arthur Dehon Little (1863-1935) attended MIT as an undergraduate student in chemistry from 1881 to 1884 and was a co-founder and editor of the student newspaper, The Tech. The firm he founded in 1909,...
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MIT Libraries Receive Audubon Lithographs
The MIT Libraries were recently given 37 hand-colored lithographs from John James Audubon’sViviparous Quadrupeds of North America. The rare lithographs were generously donated by Mr. Ron Juster and...
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A New Exhibit Takes Flight in the Maihaugen Gallery
For centuries humans have been fascinated by the concept of flight. From simple attempts to fashion human wings to the serious science of space exploration, our fascination with flight has been...
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“enChanting Musical Artifacts” lecture on MIT World
In the lecture enChanting Musical Artifacts in Unlikely Places: Rare Resources in MIT’s Lewis Music Library, Michael Scott Cuthbert, Assistant Professor of Music at MIT, and Nancy Schrock, Thomas F....
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Power Supply: Energy Resources in the MIT Libraries is a new exhibit in the Maihaugen Gallery that showcases “energy resources” in the Libraries that have supported and resulted from research and...
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Read all about it–inside the Fall issue of BiblioTech
Inside this issue: Learn about new and improved places to study in Barker & Dewey Libraries Connect with the Libraries on your mobile phone Read about the Libraries’ book that traveled into space...
View ArticleTechnology & Enlightenment in the Maihaugen Gallery
A new exhibit opens in the Libraries’ Maihaugen Gallery on Wednesday, February 3. Technology and Enlightenment: The Mechanical Arts in Diderot’s Encyclopédie explores one of the most important and...
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Historic Rare Book Collection "UnVailed"
A bookplate featuring the portrait of Theodore N. Vail, who donated the collection to MIT in 1912. Records for the Vail Collection – one of the world’s foremost rare book collections on electricity,...
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Study Sanctuary—Hayden’s Lipchitz Courtyard
The Lipchitz Courtyard within Building 14 (adjacent to Hayden Library) is a hidden gem—a quiet, leafy retreat where you can find a sunny or shady spot to pull up a chair and read a book, or enjoy...
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MIT Undergraduate student wins Knovel University Challenge
Monica Isava, an MIT undergraduate student in Mechanical Engineering, recently won an iPod nano in Knovel’s University Challenge! More than 10,000 students from 40 countries entered the contest....
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Data Visualization Tool Developed at MIT Gets Library of Congress Support
MIT Libraries receive grant for work on “Exhibit 3.0” software Exhibit has been used by Data.gov to help demonstrate new ways of visualizing government data. A $650,000 grant from the United States...
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DSpace@MIT in the MIT Faculty Newsletter
DSpace@MIT is featured in the latest issue of the MIT Faculty Newsletter. Director of Libraries, Ann Wolpert, shares the latest facts and figures about MIT’s growing digital repository. Did you know...
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Fund for Jewish Music History established at MIT’s Lewis Music Library
Lewis Music Library, photo by L. Barry Hetherington MIT Libraries is pleased to announce the creation of the Dr. Karl and Mrs. Margaret Grünbaum Fund for Jewish Music History at MIT’s Rosalind Denny...
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“Glass at MIT: Beauty and Utility” Opening Feb.10 in the Maihaugen Gallery
Please join us for the opening of the MIT Libraries’ latest exhibit GLASS AT MIT: BEAUTY AND UTILITY Date: Friday, February 10, 2-4pm Location: Maihaugen Gallery (14N-130) A new exhibition in the...
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