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IAP Book Discussion: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, Thursday January 24th

By on January 9, 2008

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Join The Humanities Library for a discussion of the book that has literary circles buzzing. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Associate Professor in Writing and Humanistic Studies Junot Díaz, has been included on several year-end “best of” lists for fiction published in 2007. The discussion will be moderated by librarian Mark Szarko.

  • When: Thursday January 24, 11am-12:00pm
  • Where: 14N-417
  • Cost: Free
  • Contact: Mark Szarko (617-258-8022, szarko@mit.edu) to register, and for further details

The first 8 registrants will receive a free copy of the novel!

Fiddle-dee-dee during IAP!

By on January 8, 2008

leprechaun fiddler Musicians and audience members needed for the first-ever fiddle jam session of traditional music! The event will be held on Thursday, January 17, from 2-4 pm in the Lewis Music Library, 14E-109.

Do you play fiddle, flute, whistle, pipes, harp, accordion, banjo, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, bodhrán, or harmonica? Do you sing?

Come join with other MIT musicians playing traditional music from the library’s collection.

Listeners also needed!

Musicians are asked to sign up by January 10th (limited to 12 musician participants). Contact Cate Gallivan, 14E-109, (617) 253-7389, categal@mit.edu

Films in Rotch Library, for IAP

By on January 7, 2008

IAP Rotch Library Film Series:

  • WHEN: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, January 7, 2008 through February 1, 2008
  •  WHERE: showing in 7-134A (Rotch Library conference room; enter via 7-238)
  • Hosted by Ann Whiteside, Jolene deVerges, Jennifer Friedman, and Heather McCann

Did you know that Rotch Library of Architecture and Planning maintains an impressive DVD collection, with new titles added regularly? Join the library staff as we explore the scope of the collection. Each week of IAP, we will highlight a different theme in the collection, including video art, architecture and urban development & planning. Brief, informal discussion will follow each each day’s films.

Rotch Library Film Series, Week 1

The Rotch Library is proud to present the IAP Film Series, held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays throughout the month of January. The week of January 7 is Video Art Week!

Films will be shown in the Rotch Library Conference Room starting at 11:30AM and ending no later than 2PM. The schedule for the upcoming week will be:

Monday, January 7

  • Bill Viola: The Eye of the Heart
  • William Kentridge: Art from Ashes

Wednesday, January 9

  • Expressing the Inexpressible: Shirin Neshat
  • The Body as Matrix: Matthew Barney’s “Cremaster Cycle”

Friday, January 11

  • HC Gilje: Cityscapes
  • Gary Hill: Transcending the Senses

The week of January 14 is Urban Planning Week!

Please forward this information to interested parties!

If you have any questions, please contact Heather McCann at (617) 253-7098 / hmccann@mit.edu OR Jennifer Friedman (617) 258-5595 / jrfried@mit.edu.

Watercolors by Eleanor Manning O’Connor subject of Archives January exhibit

By on January 2, 2008

Watercolor by Eleanor Manning O’ConnorThe January Object of the Month exhibit by the Institute Archives and Special Collections highlights watercolors painted by Eleanor Manning O’Connor (B.S.in Architecture, MIT, 1909). The watercolors are from the Archives’ collection of the Records of Howe, Manning & Almy, an architectural firm started by Lois Lilley Howe (MIT, 1890) and later joined by O’Connor and a third MIT alumna, Mary Almy. The collection includes reports, paintings, drawings, blueprints, photographs, diaries, notes, and correspondence illuminating the lives and work of the three MIT alumnae. The materials are available for research in Room 14N-118, Monday through Thursday, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, with 24 hours’ advance notice.

Take a load off! Daydream in the “Dreaming Lounge” in Barker’s Reading Room

By on December 17, 2007

Ana Sofia Lopes Da Ponte, a graduate student in MIT’s Visual Arts program, has just installed the “Dreaming Lounge.” This interactive piece of art will be on exhibit through January 11.

In her own words, “I designed a daybed for Barker so that the users of the space can experiment with their physical relation with the space. The design of the Dreaming Lounge considers the situation of a researcher that is in a library setting daily. It offers him/her the possibility to continue the research activity while dreaming. Attached to the seat of the bed is a canopy that smoothly unfolds above the dreamer’s body. When the back of the seat is manually pulled down by the user, a canopy situated in the upper part of the daybed rises, protecting the user’s head from exterior elements such as sound and light of the space.”

Is that Santa’s sleigh??? No, even better…it’s the Bookmobile!!! – Tues. Dec. 18th

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The Humanities Library will hold its next Bookmobile on Tues., Dec. 18th, from 11-2 in Lobby 10. Choose from books, DVDs, audiobooks and music, to keep you entertained during the long holiday break.

Come check us out!

Food for Thought on Thursday Dec. 13th – feed your brain and your stomach!!!

By on December 12, 2007
Food for Thought
Take a break from all your studying and come grab yourself a snack, compliments of the Hayden (Humanities and Science) Library. Ok, no burgers or pizza…but there will be cookies. Plenty of cookies. And beverages, too. Here are the details:

  • Where: Hayden Library (14S-100) lobby
  • When: Thursday December 13th, 2:15-3:45pm
  • Cost: FREE!!!

Exhibit in Rotch Library – Lanai: Living in the Landscape

By on December 11, 2007

Lanai: Living in the Landscape, a photo book by graduate student Stephanie Hsu (M.Arch), will be on display in Rotch Library (Rm 7-238), from December 10, 2007 through January 13, 2008. Funded in part by the Council for the Arts at MIT.

Once the largest pineapple plantation in the world, the island of Lanai is now 98% privately owned, home to two Four Seasons resorts, and known as the most exclusive of the Hawaiian Islands. Revealing life on Lanai from the perspective of the local population, architecture graduate student Stephanie Hsu documents the island during its transition from a plantation to a world class vacation destination.