From the Director
Spring 2019
The upcoming partial renovation of Hayden Library is a longawaited project that has the potential to transform the way students, faculty, and staff use...
Destination: Hayden
Library to undergo renovation in 2020
In January, the MIT Libraries announced plans to renovate Hayden Library next year, with a reopening slated for the fall term of 2020. The...
Daunting Problems and Thrilling Promises
MIT Libraries’ first visiting scholar reflects on his work to create a more open and equitable knowledge system
One of the many privileges of a life in professional academia is the right to set one’s own agenda. As a tenured professor of...
Libraries Digitize 100 Works to Celebrate Public Domain Day
Works are free to anyone to read, use, and build upon
On January 1, 2019, a new set of published works entered the public domain in the US for the first time in two decades,...
Laugh Tracks and Libraries
Hayden Library is part of an interactive art installation powered by AI
For one weekend last November, visitors to Hayden Library found a novel distraction from their p-sets and research: they could watch an impromptu sitcom...
New Acquisition
An audio wayback machine
MIT is where the future is invented, but there is also deep interest in understanding the past. The Lewis Music Library recently added to...
News from the MIT Press
MIT Press launches new Fund for Diverse Voices
The MIT Press has a long and rich history of publishing books by and about underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM),...
What’s New
Spring 2019
MIT Libraries and MIT Press Staff Honored with MIT Excellence Awards Business and Management Librarian Shikha Sharma was the recipient of an MIT Excellence...
From the Director
Fall 2018
Our plans for the future are bold, but we know we’re not in this alone. The kind of library we envision — open, participatory,...