Category: Humanities
This just in: The ACI Scholarly Blog Index
Who says blogs don’t have a place at the information table? This month the MIT Libraries began a subscription to ACI...
Herb Pomeroy Jazz Collection
MIT's "father of jazz"
The 10th Annual Herb Pomeroy Memorial Concert is Friday, May 12, at 8pm in Kresge Auditorium. Learn about MIT’s “Father of...
Digging deep into Special Collections
Students in Stephanie Frampton's Media in Cultural Context class take a critical look at library objects
Associate Professor Stephanie Frampton’s Media in Cultural Context (21L.715) is a seminar about the pleasures and powers of reading: “From the Sumerian clay...
Composer forum: Al Kooper
Guitarist, songwriter, producer, author
Al Kooper has been called the “Forrest Gump” of Rock. His career includes being a professional guitarist, a Tin Pan Alley...
Libraries receive fine press editions of Moby Dick
Gift from alumnus affirms enduring value of print
“If you hack the library without including print, you’re doing it wrong,” says Greg Eow, associate director for collections at...
What’s New?
Updates from MIT Libraries
Libraries Launch Women in Science and Engineering@MIT Archival Initiative The Institute Archives and Special Collections (IASC) has been focusing increasingly on...
Celebrate National Poetry Month
April is for spring, marathons...and poetry!
April is National Poetry Month, the most widely celebrated literary event in the world! Celebrate with the MIT Libraries by checking...
Composer forum: Guillermo Klein with Luciana Souza
Two of South America’s greatest jazz artists
The next composer forum presents two MIT artists in residence, Argentine composer and pianist Guillermo Klein and Grammy award-winning vocalist Luciana...
Recogito 2: Linked open data without the pointy brackets
A workshop with Leif Isaksen
This workshop introduces Recogito 2, a tool developed by Pelagios Commons that enables annotation of place references in text, images and...