Institute Archives Spotlights Pioneering Women at MIT
A new MIT Libraries initiative aims to highlight MIT’s women faculty by acquiring, preserving, and making accessible their personal archives. The Institute Archives and...
Scouring Millions of Papers to Create New Materials
As a scientist interested in developing sustainable methods to create materials, Elsa Olivetti wanted to data mine decades of scholarly articles to provide researchers...
In the Laboratory of History
In Fall 2017, the Institute launched a new two-semester course on MIT and Slavery. Co-taught by Craig Steven Wilder, the Barton L. Weller Professor...
From the Director
“As curators of knowledge, we literally decide who should be seen in the world and how, who should be heard in the world and...
Libraries Host Grand Challenges Summit
Forty-five experts from across disciplines gathered at MIT March 19–23 for a week of workshops focused on the most vital issues in information science...
News from MIT Press
In January 2018, the MIT Press partnered with Amherst College Press to host a critical dialogue on the nature of peer review at the...
New Award Honors Christine Moulen
This June the MIT Libraries will award the Christine Moulen “Good Citizen” Award as part of its annual Infinite Mile Awards program recognizing exceptional...
What’s New
Photographic Archive Comes to MIT The Aga Khan Documentation Center (AKDC) at MIT is now the home of the Kamil and Rifat Chadirji Photographic...