From the Director
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
MIT Libraries and MIT Press Staff Honored with MIT Excellence Awards Business and Management Librarian Shikha Sharma was the recipient of an MIT Excellence...