From the Director
Spring 2023
In this issue of Bibliotech, we highlight two recent initiatives that perfectly encapsulate the role and opportunity of research libraries today. Each reflects the...
IAP By the Numbers
MIT’s Independent Activities Period (IAP) is a four-week period in January during which faculty and students are freed from the rigors of regularly scheduled...
Celebrating Open Data
New prize program recognizes MIT researchers who make data openly accessible and reusable
The inaugural MIT Prize for Open Data, which included a $2,500 cash prize, was awarded to 10 individual and group research projects last fall....
Machine Learning and the Arts
For two weeks in fall 2022, the Lewis Music Library hosted Andreas Refsgaard, a Copenhagen-based creative coder, interaction designer, and educator selected as a...
Open Access Stories
See what readers from around the globe have said about articles shared through the MIT Faculty Open Access Policy: “ I am now part...
What’s New
Spring 2023
News from the Women@MIT Archival Initiative Launched in 2017, the initiative seeks to add the records of women faculty, staff, students, and alumnae to...
From the Director
Bibliotech Fall 2022
As a library, we have a mission to make information and scholarship accessible to as many people as possible. At MIT, we see that...
A Glimpse into CREOS Research
Postdoctoral associates partner with faculty on new research projects
In September 2021, the Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship (CREOS) welcomed three postdoctoral associates for two-year terms as part of a...
History Lab
Class led by Sana Aiyar delves into the South Asian experience at MIT via oral histories and Distinctive Collections
This story appeared in MIT News on April 19, 2022. Researching history in the MIT archives is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, according...