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From the Director

From the Director

Spring 2024

A great privilege of working at MIT is seeing how the Institute serves as a launch pad for new generations of scholars, researchers, leading...

May 29, 2024
Rewarding Excellence in Open Data

Rewarding Excellence in Open Data

MIT researchers recognized at second annual awards celebration

The second annual MIT Prize for Open Data, which included a $2,500 cash prize, was awarded to 10 individual and group research projects in...

Data May 29, 2024
Meet Sylvia Figueroa-Ortiz

Meet Sylvia Figueroa-Ortiz

A Q&A with the Libraries’ administrative fellow on mentorship and community building

Sylvia Figueroa-Ortiz joined the Libraries in 2022 as the inaugural MIT Libraries-ACRL Diversity Alliance Administrative Fellow. The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)...

May 29, 2024
Showcasing Trailblazing MIT Women

Showcasing Trailblazing MIT Women

New exhibits highlight stories of women at the Institute

The Women@MIT archival initiative collects records of women faculty, staff, students, and alumnae to illuminate and elevate their stories. The project was launched in...

Archives & MIT history May 29, 2024
By the Numbers: Resource Sharing

By the Numbers: Resource Sharing

Staff in Resource Sharing, part of the Information Delivery & Library Access department, provide MIT faculty, students, and staff access to materials not available...

May 29, 2024
News from MIT Press

News from MIT Press

Spring 2024

In July 2023, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Provost Cynthia Barnhart issued a call for papers to “articulate effective roadmaps, policy recommendations, and calls...

Scholarly communication May 29, 2024
What’s New

What’s New

Spring 2024

Richard Ovenden inaugurates a new campus series on academic freedom and expression Ovenden, Bodley’s Librarian at the University of Oxford, spoke about the willful...

May 29, 2024
From the Director

From the Director

Fall 2023

Many of you support the MIT Libraries because, like me, you know that a gift to the Libraries is a way to make an...

October 19, 2023
A Q&A with Peter Fisher

A Q&A with Peter Fisher

Meet the head of MIT’s new Office of Research Computing and Data

Peter Fisher, Thomas A. Frank (1977) Professor of Physics, led MIT’s Department of Physics for eight years before serving as the inaugural director of...

All news October 19, 2023