WHEN: Friday, April 9, 12 – 1pm
WHERE: Digital Instruction Resource Center (DIRC), 14N-132
Take the popular search engine to a new level. Learn basic searching as well as tips and tricks that will make you truly love Google.
Contact Georgiana McReynolds with any questions.
WHEN: Thursday, April 8, 5 – 6pm
WHERE: Digital Instruction Resource Center (DIRC), 14N-132
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?
Please pre-register for this session.
Contact Mat Willmott with any questions.
WHEN: Thursday, April 8, 12 – 1pm
WHERE: Digital Instruction Resource Center (DIRC), 14N-132
For researchers struggling to manage their data, basic strategies will be provided for:
Contact Amy Stout with any questions.
WHEN: Friday, April 2, 1 – 2pm
WHERE: Institute Archives, 14N-118
Ever wonder how to find out more about the history of MIT, locate the thesis of a famous MIT alum, or get historic background information on an MIT department, lab or program?
Many answers can be found in MIT’s Institute Archives, keepers of MIT’s administrative records, faculty papers, theses, and MIT publications dating back to the 1800s. With MIT’s 150th anniversary approaching, this is a particularly timely workshop for MIT communicators.
Contact Nora Murphy with any questions.
The MIT Libraries have purchased over 19,000 Springer eBooks published from 2005 through 2010 with coverage of every scientific discipline, as well as some coverage of architecture, humanities and many of the social sciences. Several heavily-used book series and reference works are included; among them are: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Lecture Notes in Physics, NATO Science for Peace and Security, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Topics of Current Chemistry, Springer Handbook of Robotics, Handbook of Materials Modeling, and Springer Handbook of Nanotechnology.
The Libraries selected Springer eBooks for its first major system-wide electronic book service because of Springer’s favorable licensing and business terms that will directly benefit MIT users, including broad academic use rights, perpetual ownership, unlimited concurrent users, and participation in Portico, a third party archive. In addition, each book chapter is available as a PDF file without digital rights management (DRM). This means they can be downloaded, printed, and transferred to a PDA or Kindle.
Springer also offers “MyCopy”, a service where the members of the MIT community can order their own personal copy of many of these books by using the print-on-demand option at a significantly discounted price of $24.95 for books up to 800 pages.
Links to these ebooks are beginning to appear in Barton, our library catalog. You can also search or browse them directly or from off-campus.
Speaker: Nancy Schrock, Conservator for Special Collections
Date & Time: Friday, March 19 1:00–2:00pm
Location: 14N-118, Institute Archives Reading Room
MIT Libraries’ book conservator, Nancy Schrock, discusses Diderot’s Encyclopédie as an example 18th century French papermaking and bookbinding.
This event is part of a series of events associated with Technology and Enlightenment, an exhibition in the Libraries’ Maihaugen Gallery (14N-130) that explores one of the most important and controversial publications of the eighteenth century, Diderot’s Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.
Selected Photos from the Legatum Center’s 2nd Annual Photo Competition
The First Women Barefoot Solar Engineers of Mauritania Installing Solar Lighting Systems
On view at Rotch Library (7-238)
March 1 – 31, 2010
The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship presents this exhibit of winning and honorable mention photographs from the Center’s 2nd Annual Photo Competition, which sought photos of women entrepreneurs in low-income countries using transformative technologies. Drawing on photography as a powerful tool to spread the message of economic and social progress through entrepreneurship, the exhibit showcases stories of entrepreneurial activity, innovation, and empowerment in the developing world. By displaying the winning photos, chosen from nearly 700 submissions from 50 countries, the Legatum Center aims to present a new, dignified vision for development that inspires action.
photo credit: Bata Bhurji
For more information, visit the Rotch website.
CONTEST RULES:
The contest will run for 3 weeks. Each week a new clue in the form of puzzle pieces will be added. Entries may be submitted at any time and you may enter once per week.
If there is more than one correct entry, the winner will be selected by a drawing.
The answer to the puzzle can be found by searching the visual collections at Rotch Library: http://info-libraries.mit.edu/rotch/collections/visual-collections/.
The correct answer must include the artist’s name, title of the work, and where you located the image.
Entries may be made using this form submitted to the box in Rotch Library or in an email to rvc-all@mit.edu.
If you enter between:
FEB 22, 5pm — MARCH 1, 5pm = your CORRECT answer will be worth 3 entries
MARCH 1, 5:01pm–MARCH 8, 5pm = your CORRECT answer will be worth 2 entries
MARCH 8, 5:01pm — MARCH 15th, 5pm = your CORRECT answer will be worth 1 entry
Note: This contest is open to MIT undergraduate and graduate students only. All entries must be submitted by March 15 at 5 pm.
Mention of the Caribbean usually conjures mental images of sun, sea and sand. Mention of Trinidad and Tobago may invoke images of carnival and steelpan. This exhibition presents photographs of another side of the twin-island state – its industrial landscape, specifically, the areas developed by heavy industries in the oil and gas sectors.
On view at Rotch Library (7-238) now through February 25, 2010.
Photographer: Kristal Peters
Funded (in part) by a Director’s Grant from the Council for the Arts at MIT, and MIT’s Caribbean Club.
For more information, click here.
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 controversial publications of the eighteenth century, Diderot’s Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.
This massive work became infamous in its day as an enlightened attack on French and European religious dogmatism and monarchical inefficiency and injustice. Containing over 2,500 elaborately engraved plates, it documented the mechanical arts and technology, placing equal importance on the manual trades as the arts and sciences.
Curated by Jeffrey S. Ravel, MIT Associate Professor of History, and Kristel Smentek, MIT Assistant Professor of Art History, the exhibit features fascinating images chosen from the 32 original folio volumes owned by the MIT Libraries, as well as multimedia components illustrating the Encylopedie’s significance. The exhibit is open to the public Mon.-Thurs. during gallery hours, and runs through July 2010.
Join us in the Rotch Library conference room on Thursday and Friday from noon-2 for week 3 of the 3rd annual Rotch Library IAP Film Series. See our complete film schedule on the IAP calendar. Bring your lunch!
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The American Southwest: Are We Running Dry?
Thursday, January 21st, noon-2 pm
Viewers learn about land use planning and the water needs of cities in the Southwest, and how climate change may impact water levels on vital sources such as Lake Powell, Hoover Dam’s Lake Mead, the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta system, the Rio Grande and the Colorado River.
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A Snowmobile for George
Friday, January 22nd, noon-2 pm
Curious about why President Bush reversed regulations to phase out the two-stroke snowmobile, the filmmaker travels to look at other acts of de-regulation: political manipulation that caused the death of Klamath River salmon, suppressed water rules resulting in a range war between Wyoming ranchers and oil companies, and suppression of environmental regulations after 9-11 with health consequences for New York workers.
Check out all of the MIT Libraries IAP events for the week covering Monday, January 18 through Friday, January 22. Also check out the complete listing for all of our sessions.
Using Elevation Data and Hydrographic Tools in a GIS
Middle East Blogsphere: Who Are They? Where Are They Archived?
GIS Model Builder for Programmers
Demystifying Fair Use – An Interactive Workshop for Users of Copyrighted Content
Cool Tools for Science & Engineering Research
Making Your Own Videos for the Web & MIT TechTV
Managing Your References: Overview of EndNote, RefWorks and Zotero
NOTE: Some sessions have limited availability or may require advance sign-up requirements. If you have further questions, please see individual listings for appropriate contact information.
Check out all of the MIT Libraries IAP events for the week covering Monday, January 18 through Friday, January 22. Also check out the complete listing for all of our sessions.
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Bookbinding in the Japanese Tradition
Career Research: Targeting and Researching Employers
A Sampling of Interesting Images from Rotch Visual Collections
Introduction to Spatial Statistics using GIS
Mapping and Using US Census Data
Cool Tools for Science and Engineering Research: Meet the Developers!
Making Your Own Videos for the Web & MIT TechTV
Introduction to Company and Industry Research for Engineers and Scientists
Site Selection – Making Spatial Decisions Using a GIS
The International Music Score Library Project and the future of digital repositories
NOTE: Some sessions have limited availability or may require advance sign-up requirements. If you have further questions, please see individual listings for appropriate contact information.
Check out all of the MIT Libraries IAP events for the week covering Monday, January 11 through Friday, January 15. Also check out the complete listing for all of our sessions.
Power Up!: Strategies for Getting Energy Information
Power Up with Maps! GIS and Energy Resources
Bioinformatics Software Tool: BIOBASE
Managing Your References: Overview of EndNote, RefWorks and Zotero
Publishing Smart: A Hands-on Workshop on Journal Quality Measures and Publisher Copyright Policies
Protocols and Methods: Recipes for Successful Research
Bookbinding in the Japanese Tradition
Using Wikipedia to Create Meaningful Learning Experiences
Power-up!: Energy Industry Resources
BrainNavigator Demo: Interactive Atlas & 3D Brain Imaging Software
Writing and Formatting Your Thesis: Don’t Let WORD Get You Down
Making Your Own Videos for the Web & MIT TechTV
Finding Research Datasets: ICPSR and the Harvard-MIT Data Center
Tips & Techniques for Searching for Images Online
Keeping Current: Using RSS Feeds to Stay Ahead in Your Research
NOTE: Some sessions have limited availability or may require advance sign-up requirements. If you have further questions, please see individual listings for appropriate contact information.
Join the staff of Rotch Visual Collections for an hour devoted to exploring recent acquisitions – all of which are located in Dome, MIT’s digital repository.
Images to be shown and discussed include recent additions to the Aga Khan Visual Archive; images of modernist architecture in India by Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn (donated to the Society of Architectural Historians SAHARA project); photographs from retired architecture professor Maurice Smith’s teaching collection; images of Boston, Chicago, and the Southwest seen from the air, taken by noted photographer Alex MacLean of Landslides Aerial Photography; Augustus Pugin’s etchings from his influential 1836 book of architectural criticism, “Contrasts, or a parallel between the noble edifices of the 14th and 15th edifices and similar buildings of the present day,” and historical maps.
WHEN: Wednesday, January 20, 2 – 3pm
WHERE: Rotch Library conference room, 7-238
Contact Jolene de Verges with any questions or see the RVC Research Guide for more details.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
Who are the main bloggers in the Middle East?
How are they changing the culture of communication in the region?
Where are the blogs archived?
Come and hear this exciting presentation that shows the dynamics of change in the Middle East in blogsphere.
WHEN: Tuesday, January 26, 12 – 1pm
WHERE: Rotch Library conference room, 7-238
This session is limited to 15 participants and advance sign-up is required. Please contact Omar Khalidi with questions or to sign up.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
Searching for visual content in online environments is often confusing even for those who are quite experienced with text-based searching. An effective search and discovery method for images requires that one become more visually literate. In fact, because of the current proliferation of images visual literacy has increased in importance during the 21st century.
This session will focus on strategies for finding images in image repositories. Tips will be offered to help you construct an effective search. Unidentified images will be projected and participants will analyze and “interpret” the images in order to understand how to retrieve them in the digital environment. Participants will have an opportunity to practice searching through challenging hands-on exercises.
WHEN: Thursday, January 14, 2:30 – 3:30pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Contact Jolene de Verges with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
Participants will join the Preservation Services team to create a side-sewn soft-cover book using the techniques of traditional Japanese bookbinding.
The workshop will include an overview of the history, materials, and techniques of the Japanese bookmaking tradition, which is markedly different from that used to create Western books. Each participant will complete one blank book covered in beautiful Japanese decorative paper.
WHEN: Wednesday, January 20, 10am – 12pm
WHERE: 14-0513
NOTE: This session is currently FULL. Contact Nick Szydlowski with any questions or to add your name to the wait list.
Looking for an alternative to Powerpoint for presenting images? The Offline Image Viewer (OIV), developed by ARTstor, is an alternative tool for giving offline classroom presentations. OIV allows users to download much larger images from ARTstor or import local images, at up to 3200 pixels on the long side. There is public access to this software. Users may combine ARTstor images with their own content to create digital slide show presentations that feature side-by-side comparisons, zooming and panning, and the ability to customize text on the slides. ARTstor’s Offline Image Viewer (OIV) enables instructors to give reliable classroom presentations using both high-resolution ARTstor images and local content without being connected to the Internet.
WHEN: Wednesday, January 6, 12:30 – 1:30pm
WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132
Contact Jolene de Verges with any questions.
Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions.
This session is co-sponsored by the Office of Educational Innovation and Technology.
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