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IAP 2011: All Sessions for Week of January 18 – 21

By on January 14, 2011

Check out all of the MIT Libraries IAP events for the week covering Tuesday, January 18 through Friday, January 21:

Big Docs in Word: Tips and Tricks to Format your Thesis
Tues, Jan 18, 10:30-12:00pm, 14N-132, Register

Building an EndNote Library
Tues, Jan 18, 1:00-2:30pm, 14N-132 Register

What’s new in ESRI ArcGIS 10 Desktop
Tues, Jan 18, 2:00-3:00pm, 4-153

Using EndNote’s Cite While You Write
Tues, Jan 18, 3:00-4:30pm, 14N-132, Register

Introduction to GIS
Wed, Jan 19, 10:00-12:00pm, 14N-132

Apps4Academics: iPhone/iPad apps & mobile web sites for your Academic Life
Wed, Jan 19, 1:00-2:30pm, E25-401, Register

BIOBASE Training
Wed, Jan 19, 2:00-4:00pm, 14N-132, Register

Managing your references: Overview of EndNote, RefWorks and Zotero
Wed, Jan 19, 5:00-6:15pm, 14N-132, Register

Patent Searching Fundamentals
Wed, Jan 19, 12:00-1:00pm, 14N-132, Register

You Don’t Know Me Until You Know Me
Wed, Jan 19, 1:00-3:00pm, E15 – Bartos Theatre

Discovering and Using US Census Data
Thu, Jan 20, 10:00-12:00pm, 14N-132

Make Your Own Decorative Paste Paper
Thu, Jan 20, 10:00-12:00pm, 14-0513, Register

Going beyond Google Scholar: using the Web of Science and other citation searching resources to discover articles
Thu, Jan 20, 12:00-1:00pm, 14N-132

Getting started with Google Maps API and Google Fusion Tables
Thu Jan 20, 12-03:00pm, TBD, Bring your own laptop

Introduction to Spatial Statistics using GIS
Thu, Jan 20, 3:00-5:00pm, 14N-132

Patent Searching Fundamentals
Thu, Jan 20, 5:00-6:00pm, 14N-132, Register

Advanced Tips & Tricks for Chemists: Structure and Reaction Searching with SciFinder Web
Fri, Jan 21, 10:00-12:00pm, 14N-132, Register

Rotch Library Film Series:  Youth Visions of Jerusalem: Short Films and Photography by Palestinian Youth, produced by Voices Behind Walls
Fri, Jan 14, 12:00-2:00 pm, Rotch Library (7-238)

EndNote Basics
Fri, Jan 21, 1:00-2:00pm, 14N-132, Register

Get the most from your “omics” analysis: GeneGo MetaCore Software Training
Fri, Jan 21, 3:00-5:00pm, 14N-132, Register

See student.mit.edu/iap/nslib.html for more details, including contact and sign-up information.

Performance artist Michael Fowlin on prejudice and diversity – Jan.19

By on January 13, 2011

Please join us for an entertaining and thought-provoking one-man show entitled “You Don’t Know Me Until You Know Me.”  Performance artist Michael Fowlin will slip in and out of numerous diverse characters in order to share their stories–sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking–about prejudice and judgment.  Attendees will have the opportunity to meet Dr. Fowlin at a reception following the event.

You Don’t Know Me Until You Know Me
Wednesday, January 19th
1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
E15 – Bartos Theatre
Reception will follow in atrium

This event is sponsored by the Libraries Committee on the Promotion of Diversity and Inclusion and MIT’s Staff Council on Diversity and Inclusion.

Celebrating 150 Years of MIT History

By on January 6, 2011

The MIT Libraries are celebrating MIT150!   Over the next 150 days stay tuned as we open the vaults of the Institute Archives & Special Collections and share an insider’s look into MIT’s unique history.  Here are a few of the many things to check out:

  • Timeline:
    An interactive timeline with images, sound, video, and in-depth information from the MIT Archives allows users to delve into MIT’s rich academic, social, and cultural history.  Learn an interesting fact each day.
  • 150 Years in the Stacks:
    A chronological journey through MIT’s extensive (and unusual) library collections, Every day for 150 days, discover a different publication, one from each year of MIT’s existence. Follow this virtual tour through open stacks and off-site storage areas, into closed-stack rare collections and the vault.  Follow daily on the blog or the Libraries’ Twitter feed.
  • ‘Technology’ Through Time: 150 Years of MIT History Exhibition
    Opening February 4, 2011 in the Maihaugen Gallery, this multimedia exhibition will showcase 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 place it is today.  The exhibit will also feature items from the MIT Museum’s 150 Exhibition, as well as Infinite Histories, video stories of those who have shaped–and been shaped by–MIT.

IAP 2011: All Sessions for Week of January 3 – 7

By on January 4, 2011

Check out all of the MIT Libraries IAP events for the week covering Monday, January 3 through Friday, January 7:

Protocols and Methods: Recipes for Successful Research
Thur, Jan 6, 12:00-1:00pm, 14N-132 Register

Rotch Library Film Series:  The Future of Food
Thurs, Jan 6, 12:00-2:00pm, Rotch Library (7-238)

Introduction to SAS (Statistical Software)
Fri, Jan 7, 10:00-1:00pm, 1-115 Register

Rotch Library Film Series:  Crips & Bloods: Made in America
Fri, Jan 6, 12:00-2:00, Rotch Library (7-238)

See student.mit.edu/iap/nslib.html for more details, including contact and sign-up information.

Fourth Annual Rotch Library IAP Film Series starts January 6th

By on January 3, 2011

Join us in the Rotch Library conference room Thursday and Friday from noon-2 as we kick off the 3rd annual Rotch Library IAP Film Series. See our complete film schedule on the IAP calendar.

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The Future of Food
Thursday, January 6th, noon-2:00pm
Rotch Library (7-238)
The Future of Food examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world’s food system. The film also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture, placing organic and sustainable agriculture as real solutions to the farm crisis today.

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Crips & Bloods: Made in America
Friday, January 7th, noon -2 pm
Rotch Library (7-238)

With a first-person look at the notorious Crips and Bloods, this documentary film examines the conditions that have lead to decades of devastating gang violence among young African Americans growing up in South Los Angeles, and offers insight as to how this ongoing tragedy may possibly be resolved.

Food For Thought! Take a Much-needed Study Break, December 14

By on December 10, 2010

Need a break from your studies?

Enjoy free drinks & snacks at our two Food for Thought events this week:

Hayden Library (14S-100) lobby, Tuesday, December 14, 2:00 – 3:15 pm

Barker Library (10-500) lobby, Tuesday, December 14, 1 – 4:00 pm

Learn about Mendeley, a tool for collaboration & organization – 11/23, 12-1

By on November 16, 2010

Mendeley Logo

Come to this session to learn about Mendeley, a free tool that can help you organize your papers and manage your references.  Jan Reichelt, Co-Founder & President of Mendeley, will give a demo and talk about how Mendeley can help you to discover the latest research, collaborate with others, and automatically generate bibliographies.

Register for the class on Tuesday, November 23 from 12-1 in 14N-132 (DIRC).

Learn more about Mendeley and other useful citation management tools.

Questions?  Contact us.

Lewis Music Library hosts early music lecture on Monday, Nov.15

By on November 5, 2010

“Quill and Pixel: Chansonniers and their Modern Readers”
A lecture by Dr. Jane Alden, Associate Professor of Music at Wesleyan University

Where: MIT Lewis Music Library, 14E-109

When: Monday, November 15, 2010, 5:00 pm

Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts were often beautiful, exceptionally crafted, and extraordinarily expensive items, and the modern facsimiles that seek to reproduce the originals can have the same qualities and drawbacks. By contrast, the Internet has brought images of many of these amazing artifacts to a wide audience at no cost. Yet the expensive, physical publications are still in wide demand by collectors and libraries. Dr. Jane Alden, Associate Professor of Music at Wesleyan University, will discuss this seeming paradox in her lecture, “Quill and Pixel: Chansonniers and their Modern Readers.” Dr. Alden will discuss ways in which today’s technology has changed our relationship to original manuscripts (especially 15th-century French songbooks) and what role published facsimiles may play in the future.
This event is free and open to the public.

Heart-shaped MS, 22 x 16 cm, 144 pp.

Re-Imagining Gaza/Youth Visions of Jerusalem: A Photography Exhibit at Rotch Library

By on November 3, 2010

On view: November 1, 2010-January 28, 2011

Reception: November 4, 2010, 5:30pm-7pm

The current exhibit at Rotch Library showcases the work conducted by Voices Beyond Walls, a non-profit media initiative supporting creative expression and human rights advocacy among impoverished youth, co-founded by Nitin Sawhney, Ph.D., a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology.

Voices Beyond Walls spent time in community centers in Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza to produce the photography and films showcased in the exhibit.

Re-imagining Gaza (2010) provides perspectives from Palestinian youth in Gaza City, the Jabaliya refugee camp, and the Gaza buffer zone, re-imagining their lives despite the ongoing blockade and recent war in the Gaza Strip.

Youth Visions of Jerusalem (2009) shows how Palestinian children develop spatial representations and creative media narratives in the contested spaces of the Old City and Shu’fat refugee camp, both a part of the divided city of Jerusalem today.

The exhibit was designed by Jegan Vincent de Paul, a Research Fellow in the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology. It is supported by the Council for the Arts at MIT and an ACT Director’s Discretionary Grant.