This fall we mark 10 years in three important ways – it’s the anniversary of the Women@MIT Archival Initiative, MIT Reads, and the Task...

A generous gift from Barbara Ostrom ‘78 SM ’78 has created an endowment to support the MIT Libraries’ director and the highest priorities of...

Peyton Bryant ’27 always knew she would work in her university library, even before she knew she wanted to attend MIT. “The library was...

Designed to foster empathy, curiosity, and belonging, MIT Reads brings together the campus community – and readers everywhere – through common reading experiences, author...

In 2016, MIT Libraries’ Distinctive Collections launched a new effort aimed at acquiring, preserving, and making accessible the personal archives of women at MIT,...

Libraries Launch New Locker Service Starting this fall, MIT students, faculty, and staff have a new way to pick up library items, 24 hours...

The MIT Libraries have always adapted and innovated to keep pace with MIT’s speed of discovery. We have evolved to meet information needs that...

The fourth annual MIT Prize for Open Data, which included a $2,500 cash prize, was awarded in October to seven individual and group research...

“When you lose a language, a large part of the culture goes, too, because much of that culture is encoded in the language.”  -Kenneth...