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Celebrating Pride Month
Boston Pride will take over downtown this weekend. While you’re waiting for the parade to start, why not check out some of the Libraries’...
AKDC collaboration brings 1959 recordings of Moroccan music to Archnet
Between 1959 and 1962 the American author and composer, Paul Bowles, traveled Morocco to collect samples of the Moroccan soundscape. Half a century later,...
Preserving Tangier’s International Zone
The Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT is collaborating with the Tangier American Institute for Moroccan Studies, in conjunction with Wellesley College’s Center for Work...
Over 4,000 new images of Cairo
The Aga Khan Documentation Center (AKDC@MIT) recently received a donation of over 4,000 images from Russell Harris, a researcher and editor at the Institute...
MIT woman was 1 in 300
As Commencement 2015 approaches, we look back 100 years to the Class of 1915 and its lone woman graduate who made history at MIT....
Changes coming to Libraries’ kiosk in Stata Center
Update (10/19/2015): The ease of returning your books is back! The Stata Center book drop is now open, but the location has changed to the...
Pedagogy Project on Archnet
Check out the developing Pedagogy Project sponsored by Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT (AKDC@MIT) and hosted on Archnet. The purpose of the Pedagogy...
Mosques in the United States: A Tribute to Dr. Omar Khalidi
A scholar and a librarian, Dr. Omar Khalidi (d. 2010) served as the Librarian for Islamic Architecture at MIT from 1983-2010. Over the years...
Milestone for MIT Faculty Open Access Policy: 3 million downloads
A new milestone was reached at the end of April 2015, when downloads of articles deposited in relation to the MIT Faculty Open Access...