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Into the Sky with Diamonds: book discussion with author

By on September 7, 2011

Thursday, Sept. 29, 4-5 pm in the Lewis Music Library (14E-109)

Ronald P. Grelsamer, M.D. will discuss his book, Into the Sky with Diamonds: the Beatles and the Race to the Moon in the Psychedelic ’60s. NASA Astronaut and MIT Professor Jeffrey A. Hoffman will also participate in this event.

Dr. Grelsamer is Chief, Patellofemoral Reconstruction at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.

This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
For more information, email Peter Munstedt or call 617-253-5636.

Barker Library closes early on Wednesday, August 31

By Mark Szarko on August 29, 2011

Barker Library will close at 4pm on Wednesday, August 31 due to previously-scheduled special event.

Reference services will be available in the Hayden Library (14S-100) or online through AskUs!.

Barker will re-open for normal business hours on Thursday, September 1st.

Fund for Jewish Music History established at MIT’s Lewis Music Library

By mit-admin on July 25, 2011

Lewis Music Library, photo by L. Barry Hetherington

MIT Libraries is pleased to announce the creation of the Dr. Karl and Mrs. Margaret Grünbaum Fund for Jewish Music History at MIT’s Rosalind Denny Lewis Music Library. The fund was established with a gift from Michael Gruenbaum ’53 and his sister, the late Marietta Grünbaum Emont, in memory of their parents.

The Grünbaum family’s personal experiences with the Holocaust were at the heart of their decision to make the gift. Michael and Marietta’s father was killed in the Holocaust and they were imprisoned with their mother at the Terezin concentration camp. They later immigrated to the United States in 1950, at which point Michael enrolled at MIT. While at MIT, Michael worked part-time at the then newly-established music library with MIT’s first music librarian, Duscha Weisskopf, also a Holocaust survivor. Weisskopf spoke at MIT at a private dedication for the Fund earlier this summer.

Funded by Holocaust reparations received by the family, the Grünbaum Fund will enable important scores, recordings, video and written material by or about Jewish musicians, composers and writers to be purchased and shared with a new generation of students. Numerous materials have already been acquired and been made available to the Library’s users. The collection will continue to grow in the coming years and serve as a valuable intellectual asset for the MIT and Jewish communities.

The Rosalind Denny Lewis Music Library is located in Building 14E-109 and is open to the public. Summer hours are Monday-Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Final month to see Technology Through Time exhibit before the Fall

By mit-admin on July 15, 2011

Maihaugen Gallery, photo by L.Barry Hetherington

The Maihaugen Gallery (14N-130) will be temporarily closed from August 15 through Friday, September 9 due to construction. Visit the gallery before August 15 to see ‘Technology’ Through Time: 150 Years of MIT History.

This multimedia exhibition showcases in words, documents, photos, video and sound, the broad and varied history of MIT. View original MIT documents and historically significant materials that played a role in making MIT the unique place it is today. The exhibit also features items from the MIT Museum’s MIT150 Exhibition, as well as video stories of those who have shaped – and been shaped by – MIT.

The gallery is open Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. until August 15. The gallery and exhibit will reopen September 12.

Check Out the Complete Listing of JulyAP 2011 Sessions

By Mark Szarko on June 22, 2011

All sessions take place in the Digital Instruction Resource Center (DIRC), 14N-132. Pre-registration is required for some, but not all sessions. See below for details.

Bioinformatics for Beginners – Register

When: Tue July 12, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Where: 14N-132
Contact: Howard Silver, hsilver@mit.edu
Description: Bioinformatics techniques and tools are being incorporated into researcher’s toolkits across a broad range of disciplines. The session is a hands-on practicum and an excellent starting point for people who are new to, or curious about bioinformatics research tools. It features the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Entrez family of databases and the BIOBASE family of resources.

Endnote Basics – Register

When: Mon July 18, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Where: 14N-132
Contact: Peter Cohn, pcohn@mit.edu
Description: EndNote is a “personal bibliographic software” package which allows you to create and manage a database of bibliographic references. Attendees will create a personal database of cited literature by importing references from resources such as Barton, Web of Science, & other sources of published literature. Your database can be used to automatically generate in-text citations and bibliographies in your manuscripts. It can also help you organize and manage your PDF files.

Fair Use and Electronic Reserves – Register

When: Thu July 28, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Where: 14N-132
Contact: Roshni Gohil, rgohil@mit.edu
Description: Are you teaching or supporting a fall class and want to learn more about copyright and electronic reserves on Stellar? We’ll provide an overview of “fair use” and other copyright restrictions for course materials and help you navigate through the ins and outs of electronic reserves. Staff from the MIT Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Publishing & Licensing and Course Reserves Team will be available to answer questions. Please sign up in advance so that we can better tailor the session for your needs.

Managing Your References: Overview of EndNote, RefWorks, and Zotero – Register

When: Thu July 21, 12:00 – 1:15 pm
Where: 14N-132
Contact: Anita Perkins, perkins@mit.edu
Description: Using citation management software to create and maintain a collection of references is becoming more common and important in today’s academic world. These software packages allow users to search databases, retrieve relevant citations, and build a bibliography to be added to a paper or thesis or stored for future reference. But which software package should you use, and how do you get started? This session will focus on EndNote, RefWorks, and Zotero, the three major options for bibliographic software at MIT. We will include a discussion comparing and contrasting the three software packages, and we will introduce some of the basic concepts and functionality of each program.

Managing Research Data 101

When: Fri July 29, 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Where: 14N-132
Contact: Amy Stout, astout@mit.edu
Description: For researchers struggling to manage their data, basic strategies will be provided for: best practices for retention and archiving; effective directory structures and naming conventions; good file formats for long-term access; data security and backup options; and metadata, tagging, and citation options.

MIT150 Through the Video Lens–Tuesday 5/10, 4pm

By mit-admin on May 10, 2011

Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Time: 4:00pm – 6:00pm

Location: Huntington Hall, Room 10-250

An overview and discussion of the multimedia developed in support of MIT’s sesquicentennial. Content includes the Infinite History Project, From the Vault, Elemental MIT, and five documenta ry shorts that explore different facets of the MIT experience:

The Founding of MIT: Persistence in Vision
Outside the Box: Crossing Disciplines at MIT
MIT in Service
Common Threads: The Evolving Student Experience at MIT
The Ecosystem: Nurturing Entrepreneurship at MIT

Following the 30-minute screening of excerpts from the documentaries, we’ll look at this collection of new multimedia resources with our MIT colleagues who imagined and produced them — and others who are now using them in their own education and outreach activities. Conversation will include emerging trends in online video publishing and advances in video transcript-based search technology.

All are welcome: no tickets required.

Reception to follow; room 10-105.

Preserve your digital photos and documents

By mit-admin on April 28, 2011

As part of the American Library Association’s Preservation Week, the MIT Libraries are hosting a webcast today, April 28, 2011:

April 28: Preserving Your Personal Digital Memories, with Bill LeFurgy of the Library of Congress
Digital photos, electronic documents, and other new media are fragile and require special care to keep them useable. Hear about some simple, practical tips and tools to help you keep your digital memories safe. Full description

The webcast starts at 2:00 PM in the Digital Instruction Resource Center (DIRC), 14N-132. This event is free and open to the public.

Sonorous Currents, live electronic music: May 4, 4 pm

By on April 27, 2011

Come hear a performance of new music for live electronics with laptops, iPhones, circuits, and other sonological mechanisms in the Lewis Music Library from 4:00-5:00 pm on Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Students from Visiting Assistant Professor Christopher T. Ariza’s Music and Technology class will share their compositions.

Wednesday, May 4, 4 – 5 pm
Lewis Music Library 14E-109
For more information: 617-253-5636

Accidents Happen: What to do if your family treasures get wet

By mit-admin on April 26, 2011

As part of the American Library Association’s Preservation Week, the MIT Libraries are hosting a webcast today, April 26, 2011:

Accidents Happen: Protecting and Saving Family Treasures, with Nancy E. Kraft of the University of Iowa Libraries
Are your family treasures stored safely in your home or elsewhere? How do you save your photos when they’ve been submerged in flood water? What do you do if your books smell mildewy? What if your basement floods or worse? Attend this session to learn answers to these questions and more. Full description

The webcast starts at 2:00 PM in the Digital Instruction Resource Center (DIRC), 14N-132. This event is free and open to the public.