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 have become overwhelmingly digital. We’ve relied on collaborative strategies like resource sharing. We have worked to make MIT knowledge accessible to a global community. Throughout these transformations, we’ve kept the Institute’s mission at the center. Our most recent service changes are no different.

Our current strategy reflects our vision for the future, with its emphasis on digital collections and services, open scholarship, and support for data-intensive and computational research. In this issue of Bibliotech, you’ll see examples of our progress towards these priorities. Work by Distinctive Collections staff to digitize language recordings from the Kenneth Hale papers aims to catalyze new linguistic research. Winners of the 2025 MIT Prize for Open Data demonstrate how open data drives innovation in key areas for MIT such as climate change. A new, streamlined search experience on our website, enhanced by machine learning, gives users a more comprehensive view of our diverse collections.

Our collections, services, and spaces will inevitably change, but our commitment to sharing knowledge and fueling research and learning across MIT endures.

Thank you for your ongoing support of the Libraries.

All my best,

 

 

 

Chris Bourg, PhD
Director of Libraries