In the 1980s MIT students and faculty members embarked on an exploration of human-powered flight. The August Object of the Month exhibit of the Institute Archives and Special Collections describes the project that produced the Daedalus, in which Kanellos Kanellopoulos made the record-breaking flight from Crete to Santorin in 1988. The records of Project Daedalus are available for research in the Archives reading room, Building 14N-118.
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JulyAP Workshop: Bioinformatics for Beginners
WHERE: 14N-132 (Digital Instruction Resource Center – DIRC)
WHEN: Friday, August 3, noon – 1pm
NCBI’s Entrez family of databases is the foundation of knowledge for molecular level bioscience research. Class attendees will learn about the organization of key NCBI databases, understand the database record structure, and work with the BLAST search tool. The session is a hands-on practicum and an excellent starting point for people who are new to, or curious about bioinformatics research tools.
Feel free to bring your lunch! Drinks and dessert will be provided.
Sponsored by the MIT Libraries.
Contact the Science Library for more information.
JulyAP Workshop: Flavors of Citation Searching
WHERE: 14N-132 (Digital Instruction Resource Center – DIRC)
WHEN: Friday, July 27, noon – 1pm
Have you ever used Web of Science to find citations? Have you used Google Scholar? Ever used citation links in journal articles?
This session will explore the different ways you can use the citation searching method for identifying literature on a subject to benefit of your research. The concept of citation searching has been around for over 50 years, but it has evolved with technology. Several examples will be given, and we would enjoy hearing about your own techniques.
Feel free to bring your lunch! Drinks and dessert will be provided.
Sponsored by the MIT Libraries.
Contact the Science Library for more information.
JulyAP Workshop: Patent Searching Fundamentals, Friday, July 20, noon – 1 at DIRC
WHERE: 14N-132 (Digital Instruction Resource Center – DIRC)
WHEN: Friday, July 20, noon – 1pm
While you won’t come out of this session qualified to be a patent attorney, you will be able to successfully find patent references from all over the world and know how to obtain patent text and diagrams.
The session will be a hands-on practicum which will help de-mystify the patent literature and expose attendees to key resources for finding patent literature. Using patent literature is important for understanding competitive technologies and keeping abreast of current product innovations.
Feel free to bring your lunch! Drinks and dessert will be provided.
Sponsored by the MIT Libraries.
Contact the Science Library for more information.
MIT Libraries screencast tutorials available in MIT’s TechTV
Video tutorials for instruction on topics such as database searching and evaluating information are being created, and more will come.
A beta of this project was conducted in the Fall of 2006 with tutorials for students in the class 3.091/3.093. Feedback from those students will help us as we create more tutorials.
Watch our space in MIT’s TechTV for future video content. (MIT’s TechTV is itself a beta!)
Video available of Wikipedia class
A video is now available of an interesting class that took place in January during IAP.
The event, “Why Not Wikipedia, and when?” was run by Chris Capozzola, Amy Stout, and Brian Keegan. Panelists discussed pros and cons, experiences as Wikipedia users and contributers, Wikipedia in the classroom, and implications for research. For more information, see the class description.
Download the quicktime video. (1.5 hours, 623.7 Mb)
Rotch Library to feature photographs of Italy
Treading on History: Photographs of Contemporary Italy
Mary Pat McNally
June 1, 2007 – June 30, 2007
located at Rotch Library,
which is open Monday – Thursday 9AM – 7PM and Friday 9AM – 6PM.
When photographer Mary Pat McNally first ventured to Italy in 1999, she was impressed by the marks of modern culture on the historic cities and eternal landscapes. Sometimes it was graffiti on an ancient wall; sometimes a motor boat waiting in a Venetian canal.
“It intrigued me the way life goes on in Italy amid the splendor of the past,†McNally explained. “You will see people going about their daily lives in the shadows of great cathedrals, and hanging out their laundry between buildings that date back to the Middle Ages or earlier. Sometimes the residents of a thousand year old town appear blind to the fact that they are treading on history.â€
That first trip led to many more. A selection of her photographs, taken over the course of several journeys to Italy, will be on display during the month of June in the Rotch Library, located on the MIT campus. McNally earned a diploma in photography from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley College, and is currently working as a graphic designer at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
Archives’ June exhibit showcases 1878-79 “Log of the Dorianâ€
The MIT Archives’ June Object of the Month is Francis H. Bacon’s “Log of the Dorian,” being, in Bacon’s words, ” the Account of a Voyage in a small Boat in the Year 1878-79 from England to the Mediterranean by way of Belgium and Holland, and up the Rhine to the Danube, down to the Black Sea and through the Aegean to Athens, with Sketches made by Himself.”
Bacon’s handwritten journal, containing his watercolors, sketches, and other illustrations, is available for research in the Institute Archives and Special Collections, Building 14N-118.
Shiver me timber!!! Treasure hunt, and The Bookmobile!!!
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Sail down to lobby 10 on Thursday May 24th, between 11am and 2pm, and explore the latest treasures from The Humanities Library Bookmobile. As usual, The Lewis Music Library will have a fine sample of CD’s to behold as well. And while there, grab yourself a treasure map, and use it to explore some of the "hidden" treasures in The Humanities Library Reading Room. If your skills are sharp, you’ll even have a chance to win a free prize…check out The Bookmobile for the details!!!
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