Take a break over the long weekend with something from the Humanities and Lewis Music Library’s collections, including books, DVDs and CDs. Come by at 1 PM to watch the Ballroom Dance Club liven up the bookmobile with a few dances!
The second annual Fiddle-Dee-Dee traditional folk jam session will be held Thursday, January 29, from 2-4 pm in the Lewis Music Library.
Participants will bring their own folk instruments and play common session tunes from the library’s collection.
The Lewis Music Library is located in Bldg. 14E-109. Audience members welcome; come join us!
The Humanities Library regrets that it will be unable to present the IAP session Finding and Using Historical Newspapers, originally scheduled for January 29th, due to unforeseen circumstances. We are sorry to disappoint those who may have been looking forward to the event, and we apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.
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The Humanities Library will be hosting three events this IAP:
Friday Jan. 16th:
Take a Break at the Bookmobile:
Check out a great selection of books from the Humanities Library, and CDs from the Lewis Music Library.
11am to 2pm
Lobby 10
Tuesday Jan. 27th, Wednesday Jan. 28th, Thursday Jan. 29th:
Special Effects at the Movies
Patsy Baudoin, Christine Hazlett, Jonathan Chapman, Katie Stanchak
We will view three films with historically innovative special effects. Free food will be available.
7:30pm to 10pm
Tuesday’s and Thursday’s event will be held in 4-231. Wednesday’s event will be held in 4-237.
Thurday Jan. 29th:
Finding and Using Historical Newspapers
Michelle Baildon
Whether for research or for fun, reading historical newspapers gives us a fascinating view of the past. This hands-on workshop will show you how to find and use newspapers (online and otherwise) going back as far as the 17th century. Focus will be on U.S. papers, though international papers will also be covered.
Thurs 1/29 – 11:30am to 12:30pm
DIRC (14N-132).
No advance sign-up.
Check out all of the MIT Libraries IAP events for the week covering Monday, January 12 through Friday, January 16. A complete listing for all of IAP is also available.
Managing Your References: Overview of EndNote, RefWorks and Zotero
Tips and Tricks for Keeping Up With Information: Materials Science & Engineering
Finding Research Datasets: ICPSR and the Harvard-MIT Data Center
Introduction to Company and Industry Research for Engineers and Scientists
Introduction to SciFinder on the Web
Humanities and Music Library Bookmobile
Keeping Current: Using RSS Feeds to Stay Ahead in Your Research
Please note that 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.
Are you wondering what an RSS feed is and how it can help your research?
Want to learn more about using GIS, EndNote or RefWorks?
Need to find chemical information, social science data, or patents?
Want to learn Japanese book-binding, improve your photography, or how to compost with worms?
Look no further! Take a peek at all of the MIT Libraries IAP Activities offered in 2009.
Hayden Library — Humanities & Science — will stay open 24 hours a day during Finals
from Wednesday, Dec. 10th at 8am to Friday, Dec. 19th at 7pm.
Overnight hours are for the MIT community only.
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| Need a break from all your studies? We’re providing two opportunities, on two different days and times, to chow down this year. Here are the details:
First Food for Thought:
Second Food for Thought:
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Check out a great selection of books from the Humanities Library, with a special emphasis on gaming and music, at our next Bookmobile event Wednesday, December 10th. There will also be a rocking sampling of cd’s from the Lewis Music Library. Then bop your way up to the Barker Library Media Room for a special Rock Band gaming event!
Details (see previous blog posting for more Rock Band event details):
Gobble up some delicious new offerings from the Humanities Library and the Lewis Music Library‘s collections, including books, DVDs and CDs.
Details:
The fall 2008 issue of What’s the Score? the newsletter of the Lewis Music Library is now available. The web version has been posted online and print copies are on the front counter in the library (Bldg. 14E-109).
Read about library activities, projects, and new subscriptions — and don’t miss the ever-popular bad music jokes!
Looking for an easy way to find books and journals owned not only by MIT, but also by other libraries around the world? Try MIT Libraries’ WorldCat, an experimental interface to the Barton catalog.
Other features include:
For a full list of features, read About MIT Libraries’ WorldCat.
WorldCat doesn’t include everything owned by the MIT Libraries, so if you can’t find what you’re looking for, make sure to check Barton and Vera, or ask us!
We’d love to hear your thoughts on MIT Libraries WorldCat! Give feedback.
Discover what’s new from the The Humanities Library and The Lewis Music Library‘s collections, including books, DVDs and CDs.
Details:
Tenure-track, visiting and emeriti faculty can now take advantage of a new service. 
Find a book you want in Barton, click on “Request item,” log into “Your Account” and select “office delivery” from the drop-down menu.
The book you requested will arrive at your office mailroom in 2-3 business days via campus mail.
For more information, please see our FAQ.
Vera Multi-Search – Vera had a makeover!
The new Vera Multi-Search will still help you find electronic journals, databases, and e-books, and now it will also help you search for articles within journals, conference proceedings, etc. See the FAQ page for more information.
New LibGuides
We’ve adopted a new system of creating guides to help you find information related to your research.
PDF delivery from the Library Storage Annex
Looking for a journal article, conference proceeding, technical report or book chapter that’s in the Library Storage Annex? Use the “Request PDF” button in the Barton catalog record to get PDF delivery to your desktop. This service is free to members of the MIT community with an Illiad account.
Manage Your Research Data More Effectively
The Libraries have a new resource to help you in managing research data that you produce. Check out the guide to Data Management and Publishing.
Printing, Copying and Scanning Improvements
Hayden, Barker, Dewey and Rotch Libraries are moving to TechCASH with new copiers and scanners. You’ll now be able to use TechCASH (MIT ID) to pay at copiers, print for free (MIT community only) through Athena printers, and make color scans that you can email or save to your USB drive. See the Printing FAQ and the TechCASH FAQ for more information.
And coming soon…
Look for an expanded Libraries presence in Stellar including a link to the MIT Libraries Quick Start!
WHERE: 14N-132 (Digital Instruction Resource Center – DIRC)
WHEN: Friday, August 1, 12:30 – 1:30pm
While you won’t come out of this session qualified to be a patent attorney, you will be able to successfully find patent references from all over the world and know how to obtain patent text and diagrams. The session will be a hands-on practicum that will help de-mystify the patent literature and expose attendees to key resources for finding patents through free resources available on the web.
Feel free to bring your lunch! Drinks and dessert will be provided.
Sponsored by the MIT Libraries.
See http://libraries.mit.edu/patents for more information. Contact Darcy Duke with any questions.
WHERE: 14N-132 (Digital Instruction Resource Center – DIRC)
WHEN: Friday, July 25, noon – 1pm
Geared for graduate students, this workshop addresses what copyright means to you as an author, how you can assess a publisher’s copyright policies, and how you can use web-based tools that assess journal quality. Open access publishing models and the use of the MIT amendment to alter standard publisher agreements will also be discussed.
Feel free to bring your lunch! Drinks and dessert will be provided.
Sponsored by the MIT Libraries.
Contact Ellen Duranceau for more information.
WHERE: 14N-132 (Digital Instruction Resource Center – DIRC)
WHEN: Friday, July 11, noon – 1pm
EndNote is a “personal bibliographic software” package which allows you to create and manage a database of bibliographic references. 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. This session will be a hands-on practicum. Attendees will create a personal database of cited literature by importing references from resources such as Barton, Web of Science, PubMed and other sources of published literature. You will learn how to search and manipulate databases, and to generate a manuscript and bibliography.
Feel free to bring your lunch! Drinks and dessert will be provided.
Sponsored by the MIT Libraries.
Contact the Science Library for more information.
Take advantage of a few extra days when you borrow music CDs, DVDs, and iPods over the summer! Since the Lewis Music Library will be closed Saturdays and Sundays beginning Memorial Day weekend, these items can be borrowed for a longer period of time over the weekend. This means:
Here are some new additions to the more than 18,000 CDs and nearly 1,000 DVDs in the library’s collection. Click on an image to see its Barton catalog record:
 Anderson, Marian. Alto rhapsody / Brahms. Selected spirituals. PhonCD An238 alt |
 Miles from India: a celebration of the music of Miles Davis. PhonCD J D295 milfr |
 Wilder, Gene. Young Frankenstein: the new Mel Brooks musical. PhonCD B791 you sel |
 Corea, Chick. The ultimate adventure: live in Barcelona. DVD J C8116 ult |
 Turnage, Mark-Anthony. Greek. DVD T849 gre |
 Verdi, Giuseppe. Attila. [Soloists, la Scala, Muti] DVD V584 att a |
The Lewis Music Library is located in Bldg.14E-109 and library hours are posted on the web.
Hayden Library — Humanities & Science — will stay open 24 hours a day during Finals
from Thursday, May 15th at 8am to Friday, May 23rd at 7pm.
Overnight hours are for the MIT community only.
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