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Learn how to preserve a book with a protective cover

By mit-admin on March 30, 2015 in Preservation & conservation

Event date April 28, 2015 10am - 2pm

photo of book covers Stop by Lobby 10 and learn how to use our CoLibri machine to create custom protective covers on books in seconds. Bring your own book, or stop by and help us put covers on books found in the MIT Libraries’ general collections.

This event is free and open to the public, and part of MIT Libraries’ Preservation Week event series.

Digitizing Haitian Newspaper Libète

MIT Libraries contributes to the digitization of Libète newspaper published in Kreyòl

Founded by Father Jean-Yves Urfié in 1990, Haiti’s weekly newspaper Libète aimed to fill a linguistic and cultural void as it was published in...

Bibliotech October 19, 2023

Emilie Songolo Leads Distinctive Collections

Emilie Songolo joined the MIT Libraries in July as head of the Department of Distinctive Collections (DDC). In this role, Songolo will work across...

Bibliotech October 31, 2022

What’s New

Spring 2022

Oral history project and exhibit trace the history of South Asian students at MIT Distinctive Collections will partner with Sana Aiyar, associate professor...

Bibliotech May 12, 2022