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From the Director

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...

May 10, 2023

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...

May 10, 2023
Celebrating Open Data

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....

Data May 10, 2023
Machine Learning and the Arts

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...

Music May 10, 2023
Open Access Stories

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...

Scholarly communication May 10, 2023
What’s New

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...

Archives & MIT history May 10, 2023
From the Director

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...

October 31, 2022
A Glimpse into CREOS Research

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...

Scholarly communication October 31, 2022
History Lab

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...

Archives & MIT history October 31, 2022