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Giant letter to be locked shut April 23, Lobby 10, 12:30pm
Come celebrate the Cambridge Science Festival with the MIT Libraries. Visit our table in Lobby 10 from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 23 to learn about the 4,000-year-old tradition...
Try Inspec for computer science, electrical engineering, & more
Still the #1 database for research literature in computer science, electrical engineering, and applied physics! Inspec: Covers material from 1896 to the present Tells...
MIT Earth Week: The Clean Bin Project Film Screening & Panel Discussion
Time: Thursday, April 24th, 6-8:30 pm Location: 3-270 Is it possible to live completely waste free? In this multi-award winning, festival favorite,...
Books & Beasts: Parchment Identification from Animal Protein Analysis
Rare Book Program Manager Stephen Skuce (left) discusses the illuminated parchment pages of MIT’s 15th century manuscript Book of Hours with visitors Stephen J. Milner (Serena Professor...
More E-books now available from Wiley Online Library
You keep telling us you want more e-books and we aim to please. The Libraries are pleased to announce a cooperative pilot project with...
Discovering the Libraries: IAPril!
By MIT Libraries’ student blogger, Pri Tembhekar Hello everyone! This week’s post is about the Libraries series of April events called IAPril. Many of these are...
New journal on urbanism & an Aga Khan AKPIA symposium, 4/11-12
The MIT Libraries, through the Aga Khan Documentation Center, now receives Portal 9, a journal of stories and critical writing about urbanism and the...
Historic Letterlocking: The Art and Secrecy of Letterwriting
Would you like to have your very own “locked letter”? One that’s based on a historic manuscript letter folding format used by Elizabeth I,...
E-books to enhance professional development
NOTE: This news story is from 2014 – for more up-to-date info on our current e-book collections, please see our E-Books Guide. MIT...