Through the MIT Libraries' website, MIT students and researchers can search over 3 million printed volumes and tap into over 55,000 databases and electronic journals, and a growing number of digital collections.
Library locations offer numerous group study rooms and individual study carrels. Secure 24/7 study spaces are available in two libraries.
The library system also incorporates the Institute Archives and Special Collections, containing many of MIT's founding documents and technical reports, as well as the personal papers of noted faculty members.
The Libraries' strong traditional resources are supplemented by innovative services for
The Libraries also manage DSpace@MIT, a digital repository that captures, preserves, and shares MIT's intellectual output with the world. DSpace@MIT currently contains nearly 50,000 items, including MIT theses and the digital works of 62 communities representing groups of MIT faculty and researchers, labs, and centers.
The MIT Libraries maintain membership in the following organizations:
- Association of Research Libraries
- Boston Library Consortium
- Coalition of Networked Information
- Council on Library and Information Resources/Digital Library Federation
- DDI Alliance
- EDUCAUSE
- HathiTrust
- International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
- Northeast Research Libraries Consortium (NERL)
- OCLC
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