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.
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.
Edward W. Guo founded the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) in 2006 to create a virtual library of public domain music scores. He will give a talk at MIT about his project and other digital music repositories on Friday, January 22nd. Join us!
Members of the MIT Community are encouraged to schedule the room (14E-311) for groups of three or more at Hayden’s service desk on the 1st floor or call 253-5671 to make a reservation. Features include a large blackboard and a wall-mounted flat-screen monitor for presentations.
14E-311 was formerly the Women’s Studies Research Room. That collection has been moved into the Hayden stacks, including the new Women in Science, Technology & Medicine Collection in the center section of the Humanities Library, 2nd floor reading room.
Come on by the Lewis Music Library and check out some Hallowe’en music!
Reserves assistant Cate Gallivan has pulled together a few examples of ghoulish music. There’s plenty more in the library collection; ooze on over to 14E-109 and find some! CDs and DVDs circulate for 3 days, scores and books for 30 days.
The fall 2009 issue of What’s the Score? the newsletter of the Lewis Music Library is now available. The web version is online and print copies are available on the front counter in the library (Bldg. 14E-109).
Read about library activities and projects, and don’t miss the ever-popular bad music jokes!
The Libraries’ Bookmobile will be wheeling into Lobby 10 this Friday, Oct. 9, 2009. From 11a.m. until 2p.m. browse through a great selection of books, CDs, DVDs and audiobooks from the Humanities and Music Libraries. Stop by and pick up something to enjoy over the long weekend!
There are now more reasons to come study in the Lewis Music Library! This summer some of the listening carrels on the mezzanine were removed to make room for four large study tables. The Music and Theater Arts Section has provided two iMac computers with music software — they have Finale notation software now, and more music software will follow. Use is restricted to the MIT community; show your ID at the service desk to get the password.
There are three more weekend to take advantage of extra days when you borrow music CDs, DVDs, or an iPod! Since the Lewis Music Library is still on summer hours and will be closed Saturdays and Sundays (and Labor Day Monday), you can get extra time to enjoy some great music:
Music CDs and DVDs circulate for 3 days (limit of 5), but if you borrow them Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday during the summer they’re due on Monday.
Labor Day weekend they’ll be due Tuesday, September 8 (Registration Day).
iPods circulate overnight, but during the summer an iPod borrowed on Friday is due Monday (or Tuesday, September 8 for Labor Day weekend).
The iPods contain over 2700 sample tracks taken from recent CDs in the library’s collection, which numbers over 20,000 CDs of classical, jazz, world, and popular music and more than 1,200 DVDs
The Lewis Music Library is located in Bldg. 14E-109 and summer hours are M-F, 11am-5pm. Semester hours will resume the first day of classes, Wednesday, September 9.
Endnote is a “personal bibliographic software” package which allows you to create and manage a database of bibliographic references. Learn how to find and use information more effectively in our hands-on workshops.
Sibelius 5 music notation software and a MIDI keyboard are now available in the Lewis Music Library. Students working on music class projects — or simply composing music on their own — and other members of the MIT community now have access to this software.
To use Sibelius, show your current MIT ID at the service desk to get the password. First come, first served.
The Lewis Music Library will host the 7th annual Prokopoff violin music concert from noon to 1 pm on Friday, April 17, 2009.
Concert coordinator Sherman Jia G will be joined by fellow violinists Latifah Hamzah ’12, Brian Kardon G, Lissa Riley ’08 and David Somach ’11 along with pianists Pei-Shan Lee and Matthew Wright to perform music by Bach, Gershwin-Heifetz, Tchaikovsky, and Wienawski.
The music for the concert is selected from the large gift of violin scores given to the library in 2001 by Lois Craig, former Associate Dean of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. The scores belonged to her late husband Stephen Prokopoff.
Date: Friday, April 17, 2009
Place: Lewis Music Library, Bldg. 14E-109
Time: Noon – 1 pm
The concert is free and open to the public. Join us for this traditional springtime favorite!
The long weekend is coming! The long weekend is coming!
The Lewis Music Library is offering a special longer loan period for CDs and DVDs over Patriots Day weekend. Music compact discs and DVDs borrowed Tuesday, April 14 through Friday, April 17 will all be due Tuesday, 4/21/09. That’s up to a week, rather than the usual 3 days! Limit of 5, no renewals.
This corresponds to the Humanities, Science, and Lewis Music Libraries Bookmobile on Tuesday the 14th in Lobby 10 from 11 am – 2 pm. Come on by and check out some great music!
The Bookmobile is coming! The Bookmobile is coming!
Save the date, spread the word: the Bookmobile is coming to Lobby 10 on Tuesday, April 14. Stock up for Patriots Day weekend! The staff of the Humanities, Science, and Lewis Music Libraries will be pulling together a selection of materials to tempt your mental palates, so come by and check out something to enjoy over the weekend. Choose from:
In the lecture enChanting Musical Artifacts in Unlikely Places: Rare Resources in MIT’s Lewis Music Library, Michael Scott Cuthbert, Assistant Professor of Music at MIT, and Nancy Schrock, Thomas F. Peterson, Jr. Conservator for Special Collections at the MIT Libraries, reveal some treasures from MIT’s early music collection which, while often incomplete or damaged, sing volumes about their origins and use.
Cuthbert demonstrates that when it comes to medieval and renaissance music manuscripts, there’s really no substitute for the real thing. His discussion covers several recent additions to MIT’s Lewis Music Library.
No, Cookie Monster, not “Cookie Mobile”…Bookmobile, with our usual assortment of great books and CDs from the Humanities Library and the Lewis Music Library. But, since we are being sponsored by the letter “S,” there may be something there for you. Read on:
“S” is for “SERENDIPITY” and “SCIENCE LIBRARY”
We will have a selection of books from the Science Library’s new “Serendipity” Collection.
“S” is for “SPRING BREAK” and “SPECIAL LOAN” for CDs and DVDs
The Lewis Music Library is offering a special, longer loan period for CDs and DVDs over spring break 2009. Music compact discs and DVDs borrowed Wednesday, March 18 through Friday, March 27 will be due Monday, March 30 (by closing, 10pm). That’s more than a week, instead of the usual 3 days! Limit of 5, no renewals.
“S” is for “SURVEY” and “SNACK!”
Fill out a survey, get a snack (who knows…maybe a cookie).
So come check us out in Lobby 10this Friday, March 20th, between 11AM and 2PM.
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The Lewis Music Library will host the 7th annual Prokopoff violin music concert from noon to 1 pm on Friday, April 17, 2009.
and Nancy Schrock, Thomas F. Peterson, Jr. Conservator for Special Collections at the MIT Libraries, reveal some treasures from MIT’s early music collection which, while often incomplete or damaged, sing volumes about their origins and use.
