MIT Libraries News

Under the Dome is a day-long, campus-wide open house on Saturday, April 30.  On this day the public is invited to explore MIT as we celebrate our 150th anniversary.  MIT’s libraries and the Maihaugen Gallery will be open to visitors and will offer several workshops:

‘Technology’ Through Time: 150 Years of MIT History
Exhibition
Maihaugen Gallery (14N-118)
Open 11 a.m.–4 p.m.

This multimedia exhibition showcases in words, documents, photos, video and sound, the broad and varied history of MIT. View original MIT documents and historically significant materials that played a role in making MIT the unique place it is today. The exhibit also features items from the MIT Museum’s 150 Exhibition, as well as Infinite Histories, video stories of those who have shaped–and been shaped by–MIT.  ­­

Preserving Your Family’s History
Workshop
Meet at the Maihaugen Gallery (14N-118)
Sessions hourly.  Last tour meets at 3 p.m.

Visit the Wunsch Conservation Lab where the MIT Libraries preserve their collections using modern science and traditional craft.  The MIT Libraries’ conservator and preservation librarian will explain how to care for your family papers, photographs, home videos, and digital media. Hand-outs with basic information and sources of archival supplies will be available. Sessions will last 45 minutes. Tours are limited to 20 people and will begin every hour on the hour.

Digital mapping tools introduced by MIT GIS Services
Workshop
DIRC (14N-132)
Sessions at 11 a.m. and noon

Learn about creating maps with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and collecting data in your community with a Global Positioning System (GPS) unit. A GIS provides tools for analyzing scientific and cultural data, as well as data collected by individuals (like you).  Session will include demonstration and a chance for everyone to collect data outside and create their own maps.

Apps4Academics
Workshop
DIRC (14N-132)
Sessions at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.

In this show and tell, we will recommend the best iPhone/iPad apps and mobile websites for your academic life. We’ll talk about apps for productivity, library research, note-taking, e-reading, PDF-reading and annotating, sketching, and more. Some apps we’ll demo include Evernote, Instapaper, Dropbox, GoodReader, Papers, and WorldCat Mobile. See our companion web site: libguides.mit.edu/apps

As part of the American Library Association’s Preservation Week, the MIT Libraries are hosting two webcasts that will show you how to care for your treasured family keepsakes and digital documents and photos.

Both webcasts start at 2:00 PM and take place in the Digital Instruction Resource Center (DIRC), 14N-132.  These events are free and open to the public.

Tuesday, April 26: Accidents Happen: Protecting and Saving Family Treasures, with Nancy E. Kraft of the University of Iowa Libraries
Practical tips and tools for mitigating hazards, dealing with mold, and salvaging keepsakes.  Full description

Thursday, April 28: Preserving Your Personal Digital Memories, with Bill LeFurgy of the Library of Congress
Practical tips and tools to help you keep your digital memories safe.  Full description

As part of the American Library Association’s Preservation Week, the MIT Libraries are hosting two webcasts that will show you how to care for your treasured family keepsakes and digital documents and photos.

Both webcasts start at 2:00 PM and take place in the Digital Instruction Resource Center (DIRC), 14N-132.  These events are free and open to the public.

Tuesday, April 26: Accidents Happen: Protecting and Saving Family Treasures, with Nancy E. Kraft of the University of Iowa Libraries
Practical tips and tools for mitigating hazards, dealing with mold, and salvaging keepsakes.  Full description

Thursday, April 28: Preserving Your Personal Digital Memories, with Bill LeFurgy of the Library of Congress
Practical tips and tools to help you keep your digital memories safe.  Full description

Need to expand your skills in statistical methods and quantitative analysis? Attend the ICPSR Summer Program! Each year, ICPSR provides a comprehensive, integrated program of studies in research design, statistics, data analysis, and social science methodology. Registration is now open for the 2011 session.  Note: while most courses take place at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, some do take place at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

For a listing of course offerings and application information, see the ICPSR Summer Program web site.  For further information, contact Katherine McNeill, Social Science Data Services Librarian, at mcneillh@mit.edu.

Don’t have tickets to Opening Day at Fenway? Join us at the library on April 8th instead!

The 9th annual Prokopoff violin music concert will be held in the Lewis Music Library from 1:00-2:00 pm on that day. MIT students will perform music chosen from the more than 2,000 violin scores given to the library in 2001 by Stephen Prokopoff’s widow Lois Craig, former Associate Dean of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. Director of Libraries Ann Wolpert will toss out the opening pitch and introduce the starting lineup. Play music!

Friday, April 8, 1 – 2 pm
Lewis Music Library 14E-109
For more information: 617-253-5636

All sessions take place in the Digital Instruction Resource Center (DIRC), 14N-132.  Pre-registration is required for some, but not all sessions. See below for details.

Managing Your References: Overview of EndNote, RefWorks and Zotero Register

• When: Fri April 8, 12:00-1:15 pm
• Where: 14N-132
• Contact: Remlee Green, remlee@mit.edu
• Description: Using citation management software to create and maintain a collection of references is becoming more common and important in today’s academic world.  These software packages allow users to search databases, retrieve relevant citations, and build a bibliography to be added to a paper or thesis or stored for future reference. But which software package should you use, and how do you get started?  This session will focus on EndNote, RefWorks, and Zotero, the three major options for bibliographic software at MIT.  We will include a discussion comparing and contrasting the three softwares, and we will introduce some of the basic concepts and functionality of each program.

Advanced Tips & Tricks for Chemists: Structure & Reaction Searching with SciFinder Web Register

• When: Fri April 15, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
• Where: 14N-132
• Contact: Erja Kajosalo, kajosalo@mit.edu
• Description: In this hands-on training session taught by Amy Christuk from CAS, participants will learn to:
  -Explore new Markush patent searching
  -How to find similar reactions (broad, medium, narrow) and view their transformation centers
  -Conduct half-reaction searches
  -Smart tools for analyzing and refining similarity and substructure search results
  -Find closely related substances such as different salts
  -Explore tips & tricks with reaction searching
  -Find property data including actual spectra for specific substances
  -Find and export suppliers for multiple substances
  -Set-up preferred and non-preferred suppliers
  -Set-up structure-based alerts
  -Combine different answer sets to examine their intersection and overlap
  -Create structures using SMILES & InChI strings
  -Sort reactions by relevance ranking
  -View reaction experimental procedures directly from journal and patent literature without leaving SciFinder Web
  -Learn what’s new with SciFinder Web

Biotech Business Information for Engineers and Scientists Register

• When: Thu April 21, 12:00-1:00 pm
• Where: 14N-132
• Contact: Howard Silver, hsilver@mit.edu
• Description: It’s not Brain Surgery…it’s Market Research.  This session will introduce scientists and engineers to information resources that cover biotechnology industries and markets.  We will use realistic examples and hands-on exercises with key resources to demonstrate how to match your ideas and discoveries with the opportunities and realities of the marketplace.

RefWorks Basics

• When: Thu April 21, 5:00-6:00 pm
• Where: 14N-132
• Contact: Anita Perkins, perkins@mit.edu
• Description: RefWorks is a web-based resource designed to help you organize references and create a bibliography.  RefWorks allows you to search, retrieve relevant citations, easily cite references as you write your paper, and build your bibliography.  It allows users to create individual or group accounts.

Using and Contributing to AcaWiki: The Wiki for Summaries of Academic Articles Register

• When: Fri April 22, 12:00-1:00
• Where: 14N-132
• Contact: Remlee Green, remlee@mit.edu
• Description: This session will introduce participants to AcaWiki, the wiki for summaries of academic books and articles.  AcaWiki is a great resource for scholars and a wonderful way to contribute to knowledge in a field and to help scholars.  It’s particularly relevant for PhD students around their general exams but useful for scholars at all stages.  We will show you how to get the most out of AcaWiki as a user and will walk users through the process of editing and contributing summaries of your own.  We’ll demonstrate several tricks and show users how to integrate AcaWiki with some popular existing bibliography management tools like BibTeX and Zotero. The course taught will be taught by Benjamin Mako Hill — an AcaWiki contributor and administrator.

Managing Research Data 101

• When: Mon April 25, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
• Where: 14N-132
• Contact: Amy Stout astout@mit.edu
• Description: For researchers struggling to manage their data, basic strategies will be provided for:
  -best practices for retention and archiving
  -effective directory structures and naming conventions
  -good file formats for long-term access
  -data security and backup options
  -metadata, tagging, and citation
  -other relevant issues

EndNote Basics Register

• When: Fri April 29, 12:00-1:00 pm
• Where: 14N-132
• Contact: Peter Cohn, pcohn@mit.edu
• Description: EndNote is a “personal bibliographic software” package which allows you to create and manage a database of bibliographic references.  Attendees will create a personal database of cited literature by importing references from resources such as Barton, Web of Science, & other sources of published literature.  Your database can be used to automatically generate in-text citations and bibliographies in your manuscripts.  It can also help you organize and manage your PDF files.

Introduction to Mendeley Register

• When: Wednesday, May 4, 2:00-3:00 pm
• Where: 14N-132
• Contact: Peter Cohn, pcohn@mit.edu
• Description: Mendeley is a free tool that can help you organize your papers and manage your references.  A representative from Mendeley will give a demo and talk about how it can help you discover the latest research, collaborate with others, and automatically generate bibliographies.

"The Center Cannot Hold", 1993

Harry Ellenzweig: Works on Paper, 1955-2010

Opening reception: March 11, 2011, 6:00-8:00 pm

On view: March 4-31, 2011, Rotch Library (7-238)

Harry Ellenzweig, the founding principal of the Cambridge-based firm Ellenzweig, has practiced architecture for almost 50 years. His work has focused on innovative designs for major academic institutions, as well as a wide range of projects for research, medical and corporate clients. His most recent building is the just-completed David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research here at MIT. In addition, Mr. Ellenzweig is an artist, and has been painting since youth. His work is included in several museums and many private collections in the United States. He has described his graphic works as reflecting “a vision informed by the architect’s eye, a passion for forms found in nature and images of cities – the shared heritage merging with an imagined and abstracted urban landscape.”

Save the date: the 9th annual Prokopoff violin music concert will be held in the Lewis Music Library at 1 pm on Friday, April 8, 2011.

MIT students will perform music chosen from the more than 2,000 violin scores given to the library in 2001 by Stephen Prokopoff’s widow Lois Craig, former Associate Dean of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning.

Friday, April 8, 1 – 2 pm
Lewis Music Library 14E-109
For more information: 617-253-5636

Do you have an iPhone, iPad, or Touch? Or are you just interested in learning more about apps that could help with classes or research projects?

Apps4Academics: iPhone/iPad apps & mobile web sites for academic life

Monday, February 28: 12-1:30pm in 14N-132

Register for class

In this whirlwind show & tell, we will recommend the best iPhone/iPad apps & mobile web sites for use in your academic life. We’ll demo apps for productivity, library research, note-taking, e-reading, PDF-reading & annotating, sketching, and more. Some apps we’ll demo include Evernote, Instapaper, Dropbox, GoodReader, Papers, Wolfram Alpha, PLoS, ACS Mobile, and WorldCat Mobile. We’ll point you to the best apps and mobile sites, and also ask class members to also share their favorite apps. If you’re thinking about getting an iPhone or iPad, this may help you decide how you might use it. The class is 90 minutes, and will include break-out sessions where each small group will discuss the apps they find useful and report back to the larger group. We will have several iPads available for use during the breakout sessions. If you have an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad that you use for academic work, we invite you to bring it and share your knowledge with the group. Feel free to bring your lunch!

MIT music lecturers Jean Rife and Teresa Neff will present a lecture/recital, Musical Paintings: Jean-Philippe Rameau and 18th-Century Life on Friday, February 25, from 1-2 pm in the Lewis Music Library, 14E-109.

Photo©Susan Wilson, susanwilsonphoto.com

Jean Rife, lecturer in Music and Theater Arts at MIT, will perform Pièces de clavecin by Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764).

Teresa Neff, lecturer in Music and Theater Arts at MIT, Research Fellow for the Handel and Haydn Society and faculty at Boston Conservatory, will provide commentary on the music.

Location: Lewis Music Library, 14E-109

More information: 617-253-5636

Free and open to the public

Opening Reception: Friday, Feb.4, 1:00p–3:00p

Location: 14N-130, Maihaugen Gallery

This multimedia exhibition showcases in words, documents, photos, video and sound, the broad and varied history of MIT. View original MIT documents and historically significant materials that played a role in making MIT the unique place it is today. The exhibit will also feature items from the MIT Museum’s 150 Exhibition, as well as video stories of those who have shaped – and been shaped by – MIT.

Music and refreshments provided.  Free and open to the MIT community.

Opening Reception: Friday, Feb.4, 1:00p–3:00p

Location: 14N-130, Maihaugen Gallery

This multimedia exhibition showcases in words, documents, photos, video and sound, the broad and varied history of MIT. View original MIT documents and historically significant materials that played a role in making MIT the unique place it is today. The exhibit will also feature items from the MIT Museum’s 150 Exhibition, as well as video stories of those who have shaped – and been shaped by – MIT.

Music and refreshments provided.  Free and open to the MIT community.

How did the public perceive engineers when MIT was chartered in 1861? What sort of books did MIT founder William Barton Rogers keep in his personal library? What would the Mass. Avenue bridge look like as a war memorial? Which MIT graduate wrote a hugely popular children’s book?

Find out all this and more with 150 Years in the Stacks. Join us on a chronological journey through MIT’s extensive (and unusual) library collections. Every day for 150 days, you’ll see a different publication, one from each year of MIT’s existence.

150 years, 150 days, 150 books: you never know what to expect.

Visit the 150 Years in the Stacks blog or find out more about the project.

Check out all of the MIT Libraries IAP events for the week covering Monday, January 24 through Friday, January 28:

Introduction to Stata (Statistical Software)
Mon, Jan 24, 9:00-12:00pm, 1-115, Register

Virtual Cities of the Future and the Past
Mon, Jan 24, 11:00-12:00pm, 14N-132

Practically Genomic
Mon, Jan 24, 11:00-1:00pm, 14N-132

Introduction to R (Statistical Software)
Mon, Jan 24, 12:30-3:30pm, 1-115, Register

Using Elevation Data and Hydrographic Tools in a GIS
Mon, Jan 24, 2:00-4:00pm, 14N-132

RefWorks Basics
Mon, Jan 24, 5:00-6:00pm, 14N-132, Register

Biotech business information – for engineers and scientists
Tues, Jan 25, 5:00-6:00pm, 14N-132, Register

Managing your references: Overview of EndNote, RefWorks and Zotero
Tues, Jan 25, 12:00-1:15pm, 14N-132, Register

Introduction to Spatial Statistics using GIS
Tues, Jan 25, 2:00-4:00pm, 14N-132

Data Management in Stata
Wed, Jan 26, 9:00-12:00pm, 1-115, Register

Graphics in Stata
Wed, Jan 26, 12:30-2:30pm, 1-115, Register

Demystifying Fair Use – an interactive workshop for users of copyrighted content
Wed, Jan 26, 1:00-2:15pm, 4-145

Site Selection – Making Spatial Decisions Using GIS
Wed, Jan 26, 2:00-4:00pm, 14N-132

EndNote Basics
Wed, Jan 26, 5:00-6:00pm, 14N-132, Register

Practically Genomic
Wed, Jan 26, 11:00-1:00pm, 14N-132

Rotch Library Film Series:  Re-Imagining Gaza
Thu, Jan 27, 12:00-2:00pm, 7-238 (Rotch Library)

ModelBuilder for beginners
Thu, Jan 27, 2:00-3:00pm, 14N-132

Citation Tools Quick Tour: Quosa, Mendeley, Papers, and JabRef
Thu, Jan 27, 5:00-6:00pm, 14N-132, Register

Going beyond Google Scholar: using the Web of Science and other citation searching resources to discover articles
Thu, Jan 27, 12:00-1:00pm, 14N-132

Basics of Obtaining a Patent
Thu, Jan 27, 12:00-1:30pm, 3-133

Regression Using Stata
Fri, Jan 28, 9:00-12:00pm, 1-115, Register

Python Programming for GIS
Fri, Jan 28, 9:00-12:00pm, 7-238

MIT History Uncovered
Fri, Jan 28, 10:30am-12:00pm, 14N-118

Practically Genomic
Fri, Jan 28, 11:00-1:00pm, 14N-132

Rotch Library Film Series:  Deconstructivist Architects
Fri, Jan 28, 12:00-2:00pm, 7-238 (Rotch Library)

Publishing Smart: A Hands-on Workshop on Journal Quality Measures and Publisher Copyright Policies
Fri, Jan 28, 2:00-3:00pm, 14N-132

They Danced to This? French Harpsichord Music
Fri, Jan 28, 12:00-1:00pm, Lewis Music Library

Integrating Map APIs into your website: Google Maps, OpenStreetMap
Fri, Jan 28, 3:00-5:00pm, 14N-132

BrainNavigator: Hands-On Introduction and Demo
Mon, Jan 31, 1:15-2:15pm, 14N-132, Register

See student.mit.edu/iap/nslib.html for more details, including contact and sign-up information.

Music lecturers Jean Rife and Teresa Neff will present a lecture/recital, They Danced to This? French Harpsichord Music on Friday, January 28, 2011 from noon-1pm in the Lewis Music Library, 14E-109.

Photo©Susan Wilson, www.susanwilsonphoto.com

Jean Rife, lecturer in Music and Theater Arts at MIT, will perform harpsichord suites by Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre and Jean-Philippe Rameau.

Teresa Neff, lecturer in Music and Theater Arts at MIT, Research Fellow for the Handel and Haydn Society and faculty at Boston Conservatory, will provide commentary on the music.

Location: Lewis Music Library, 14E-109

More information: 617-253-5636

Free and open to the public

Join us in the Rotch Library conference room on Friday, January 21, from noon-1:30 for week three of the 4th annual Rotch Library IAP Film Series. See our complete film schedule on the IAP calendar.

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Youth Visions of Jerusalem: Short Films and Photography by Palestinian Youth, produced by Voices Behind Walls (2009 -55 min.)
Friday, January 21st, noon-1:30 pm
Youth Visions of Jerusalem shows how Palestinian children develop spatial representations and creative media narratives in the contested spaces of the Old City and Shu’fat refugee camp, both a part of the divided city of Jerusalem today.

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This week – Special Guest!

The filmmaker for Youth Visions of Jerusalem, Nitin Sawhney,  will be joining us for the screening on Friday.  Nitin Sawhney is a fellow in MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media.  His ongoing research and teaching engages the critical role of the arts and technology interventions in contested spaces and conditions of conflict and crisis.  http://civic.mit.edu/blog/nitin

Join us in the Rotch Library conference room on Friday, January 21, from noon-1:30 for week three of the 4th annual Rotch Library IAP Film Series. See our complete film schedule on the IAP calendar.

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Youth Visions of Jerusalem: Short Films and Photography by Palestinian Youth, produced by Voices Behind Walls (2009 -55 min.)
Friday, January 21st, noon-1:30 pm
Youth Visions of Jerusalem shows how Palestinian children develop spatial representations and creative media narratives in the contested spaces of the Old City and Shu’fat refugee camp, both a part of the divided city of Jerusalem today.

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This week – Special Guest!

The filmmaker for Youth Visions of Jerusalem, Nitin Sawhney,  will be joining us for the screening on Friday.  Nitin Sawhney is a fellow in MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media.  His ongoing research and teaching engages the critical role of the arts and technology interventions in contested spaces and conditions of conflict and crisis.  http://civic.mit.edu/blog/nitin

Check out all of the MIT Libraries IAP events for the week covering Tuesday, January 18 through Friday, January 21:

Big Docs in Word: Tips and Tricks to Format your Thesis
Tues, Jan 18, 10:30-12:00pm, 14N-132, Register

Building an EndNote Library
Tues, Jan 18, 1:00-2:30pm, 14N-132 Register

What’s new in ESRI ArcGIS 10 Desktop
Tues, Jan 18, 2:00-3:00pm, 4-153

Using EndNote’s Cite While You Write
Tues, Jan 18, 3:00-4:30pm, 14N-132, Register

Introduction to GIS
Wed, Jan 19, 10:00-12:00pm, 14N-132

Apps4Academics: iPhone/iPad apps & mobile web sites for your Academic Life
Wed, Jan 19, 1:00-2:30pm, E25-401, Register

BIOBASE Training
Wed, Jan 19, 2:00-4:00pm, 14N-132, Register

Managing your references: Overview of EndNote, RefWorks and Zotero
Wed, Jan 19, 5:00-6:15pm, 14N-132, Register

Patent Searching Fundamentals
Wed, Jan 19, 12:00-1:00pm, 14N-132, Register

You Don’t Know Me Until You Know Me
Wed, Jan 19, 1:00-3:00pm, E15 – Bartos Theatre

Discovering and Using US Census Data
Thu, Jan 20, 10:00-12:00pm, 14N-132

Make Your Own Decorative Paste Paper
Thu, Jan 20, 10:00-12:00pm, 14-0513, Register

Going beyond Google Scholar: using the Web of Science and other citation searching resources to discover articles
Thu, Jan 20, 12:00-1:00pm, 14N-132

Getting started with Google Maps API and Google Fusion Tables
Thu Jan 20, 12-03:00pm, TBD, Bring your own laptop

Introduction to Spatial Statistics using GIS
Thu, Jan 20, 3:00-5:00pm, 14N-132

Patent Searching Fundamentals
Thu, Jan 20, 5:00-6:00pm, 14N-132, Register

Advanced Tips & Tricks for Chemists: Structure and Reaction Searching with SciFinder Web
Fri, Jan 21, 10:00-12:00pm, 14N-132, Register

Rotch Library Film Series:  Youth Visions of Jerusalem: Short Films and Photography by Palestinian Youth, produced by Voices Behind Walls
Fri, Jan 14, 12:00-2:00 pm, Rotch Library (7-238)

EndNote Basics
Fri, Jan 21, 1:00-2:00pm, 14N-132, Register

Get the most from your “omics” analysis: GeneGo MetaCore Software Training
Fri, Jan 21, 3:00-5:00pm, 14N-132, Register

See student.mit.edu/iap/nslib.html for more details, including contact and sign-up information.

Please join us for an entertaining and thought-provoking one-man show entitled “You Don’t Know Me Until You Know Me.”  Performance artist Michael Fowlin will slip in and out of numerous diverse characters in order to share their stories–sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking–about prejudice and judgment.  Attendees will have the opportunity to meet Dr. Fowlin at a reception following the event.

You Don’t Know Me Until You Know Me
Wednesday, January 19th
1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
E15 – Bartos Theatre
Reception will follow in atrium

This event is sponsored by the Libraries Committee on the Promotion of Diversity and Inclusion and MIT’s Staff Council on Diversity and Inclusion.

The MIT Libraries are celebrating MIT150!   Over the next 150 days stay tuned as we open the vaults of the Institute Archives & Special Collections and share an insider’s look into MIT’s unique history.  Here are a few of the many things to check out:

• MIT History website:
  A new portal to all things MIT.  Learn about the origin of the Institute–its founder, early campus life and community, education and research and MIT’s impact in the world.  Try your luck at the 1876 entrance exam!

• Timeline:
  An interactive timeline with images, sound, video, and in-depth information from the MIT Archives allows users to delve into MIT’s rich academic, social, and cultural history.  Learn an interesting fact each day.

• 150 Years in the Stacks:
  A chronological journey through MIT’s extensive (and unusual) library collections, Every day for 150 days, discover a different publication, one from each year of MIT’s existence. Follow this virtual tour through open stacks and off-site storage areas, into closed-stack rare collections and the vault.  Follow daily on the blog or the Libraries’ Twitter feed.

• ‘Technology’ Through Time: 150 Years of MIT History Exhibition
  Opening February 4, 2011 in the Maihaugen Gallery, this multimedia exhibition will showcase in words, documents, photos, video and sound, the broad and varied history of MIT.  View original MIT documents and historically significant materials that played a role in making MIT the place it is today.  The exhibit will also feature items from the MIT Museum’s 150 Exhibition, as well as Infinite Histories, video stories of those who have shaped–and been shaped by–MIT.