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Discovering the Libraries: Lewis Music Library
By MIT Libraries’ student blogger, Pri Tembhekar Hello everyone! This week’s post is about one of my favorite places to study–the Lewis Music Library. It...
Discovering the Libraries: Spring break at… the Libraries?
By MIT Libraries’ student blogger, Pri Tembhekar It’s time for spring break! That may imply running away from stacks of books as fast as possible...
Book returns to MIT, 56 years overdue
It arrived at Hayden Library in a manila envelope with a handwritten note, “To whom it may concern: After my father died, we discovered...
Discovering the Libraries: Meet the new student blogger!
Hello everyone! My name is Pritee (Pri) and I’m the new Libraries student blogger. Through my posts I hope to share information about how...
New Exhibit: Thanks for the memory: 50+ years of computing at MIT
MIT’s wide-ranging impact on computer science is the focus of an exhibit that has just opened in the Libraries’ Maihaugen Gallery. From Project Whirlwind...
Discussion: Scientific imaging for artwork & other cultural heritage materials
Discussion: Thursday, February 27, 2014, 11:00 am, 14N-132 (DIRC) New scientific imaging tools offer the capability to see distinctive details on a 16th century...
Monuments Man and Art Conservator George Stout
George Leslie Stout was one of the United States of America’s first art conservators. Stout worked in Cambridge, Massachusetts as the head of the first...
New Archnet website for Islamic art and architecture
After ten years as the premier online resource for the study of material and visual culture in Islamic societies, Archnet has been reimagined and...
Binders’ Tickets in the Peterson Telegraphy Collection
Binders’ tickets are one type of signed binding and are rare finds. They would have been placed in the book by the binder for...