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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:
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More new CDs and books
Here is a selection from the 18 books and 59 CDs that have been received in the Lewis Music Library so far this month; they will appear soon on Recent Additions to the Collection (also available via RSS). Remember that Naxos CDs are also available for online listening (MIT certificates required). The library collection contains approximately 16,700 CDs and over 700 DVDs.
Click on a cover image to see its Barton library catalog record:
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Books:
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ML410.B995.M33 2007 |
ML419.D39.C66 2007 |
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CDs:
Adams, John. Complete piano music. |
Bataan, Joe. Mr. New York and the East Side kids. |
Coal digging blues: songs of West Virginia miners. |
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Huang, Ruo. Chamber concerto cycle. |
Netrebko, Anna. Russian album. |
Reijseger, Ernst. Requiem for a dying planet. |
Music CDs circulate for 3 days (limit of 5, no renewals). The Lewis Music Library is located in Bldg. 14E-109 and library hours are posted on the web.
Humanities Library Poetry Month magnetic poem selection
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In April, The Humanities Library honored and celebrated National Poetry Month by inviting our patrons to use our magnet words in our Reading Room, under the West mezzanine, to compose poems. The above composition was, believe it our not, the most reproducible entry we received. That’s right…"BENZENE." One of our patrons created this cryptic magnet "poem," where each letter is made of a cluster of other words. Is there a relationship between the words that make up each letter, and the letter they make up, and/or the word "BENZENE?" You tell us. It’s admittedly a bit hard to read in the photo, so here it is spelled out: "B" – There, Laughter, Distain, Math, Very, Atheist So, is it a poem? It is, no doubt, mysterious, curious, and playful. And those qualities are at least some of the building blocks, so to speak, of all poetry. Agree? Disagree? Come by our library and use the magnets to compose an answer, or another poem. |
Archives May exhibit on the physics of baseball
The May Object of the Month exhibit by the Institute Archives and Special Collections is about the physics of baseball, featuring a 1965 letter from Vannevar Bush to his MIT colleague Harold Edgerton in response to a batch of multiflash baseball pictures Edgerton had sent him. Included in the exhibit is a page from Edgerton’s notebook showing two of the photos of the type sent to Bush.
The papers of Bush and Edgerton are available for research in the Archives.
Reminder: Bill Mitchell speaks tonight!!!
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Please join us as Professor William J. Mitchell presents his newest book. Imagining MIT is the image rich story of the decade long, billion-dollar building boom at MIT and how it produced major works of architecture by Charles Correa, Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, Fumihiko Maki, and Kevin Roche. Professor Mitchell is the Alexander W. Dreyfoos Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences and directs the Smart Cities research group at MIT’s Media Lab. Imagining MIT is published by The MIT Press, 2007.
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5th annual Prokopoff violin music concert on April 27
On Friday, April 27 from noon to 1 pm the Lewis Music Library will host the 5th annual concert of violin music donated from the collection of Stephen Prokopoff. MIT students Vincent Chi-Kwan Cheung P, Albert Chow ’08, Christine Hsueh ’10, Serenus Hua ’07, Sherman Jia G (concert coordinator), Catherine McCurry ’07, Matthew Roitstein ’07, Sunny Wicks ’07, Nina Young ’07, and accompanist Hsin-Bei Lee will perform music by Bach, Poulenc, Schubert, and Spohr.
In 2001, Lois Craig, former Associate Dean of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning, donated her late husband’s collection of 2,680 violin scores to the library. Most of the scores have been cataloged, bound, and added to the library’s collection and many have already circulated to the large number of violinists and other performers at MIT.
Come enjoy some wonderful music in an attractive setting!
The Lewis Music Library is located in Bldg. 14E-109 and the concert is free and open to the public.
Upcoming IAPril Events!
Learn how to find and use information more effectively in these hands-on workshops.
**NOTE that different events will be happening throughout the month of April. Click here for a complete listing of events.**
Library toolbars, extensions and web apps: little tools with big impact
WHERE: 14N-132 (Digital Instruction Resource Center – DIRC)
WHEN: Wednesday, April 25, 5-6:30pm
Tired of hopping between Google Scholar, Amazon, and library catalogs and databases? Can’t find that great article you meant to read later? Need better ways of sharing scholarly resources within your group?
Come hear about some new web tools that may help you work more efficiently. Learn to organize and share your references, catalog your personal book collections online, and search seamlessly between library resources and other web sites.
We will demo: LibraryThing, del.icio.us, CiteULike, library-relevant Firefox extensions, and more.
Company Research for Engineers and Scientists: Know your Prospective Employer or Partner
WHERE: 14N-132 (Digital Instruction Resource Center – DIRC)
WHEN: Friday, April 27, 12-2pm
You may be a skilled investigator in the area of Science or Engineering, but what do you know about company research? This session will introduce you to library-supported databases about companies and industries. We will also use examples and hands-on exercises to demonstrate strategies for learning about industry trends and prospective employers or partners.
No advanced registration required.
Sponsored by the MIT Libraries.
Contact the Science Library for more information.
Bill Mitchell speaks about his new book IMAGINING MIT!
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Please join us as Professor William J. Mitchell presents his newest book. Imagining MIT is the image rich story of the decade long, billion-dollar building boom at MIT and how it produced major works of architecture by Charles Correa, Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, Fumihiko Maki, and Kevin Roche.
Professor Mitchell is the Alexander W. Dreyfoos Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences and directs the Smart Cities research group at MIT’s Media Lab. Imagining MIT is published by The MIT Press, 2007.
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NCBI Bioinformatics Mini-Courses: May 10-11
The MIT Libraries will sponsor a series of 4 NCBI bioinformatics mini-courses on May 10-11, 2007 in the Hayden Library DIRC, 14N-132. Each course is 2.5 hours in length, including a lecture followed by a 1-hour hands-on session. To register, send your name, name of course(s), department, affiliation, and email address to Louisa Worthington Rogers. There is a limit of 20 attendees per course. (UPDATE: Classes are full, and no additional sign-ups will be accepted at this time.)
Thursday, May 10:
9:30-12:00 – Making Sense of DNA and Protein Sequences
In this mini-course, we will find a gene within a eukaryotic DNA sequence. We will then predict the function of the implied protein product by seeking sequence similarities to proteins of documented function using BLAST and other tools. Finally, we will find a 3D modeling template for this protein sequence using a Conserved Domain Database Search.1:00-3:30 – Entrez Gene Quick Start
In this course, we will use NCBI ‘s Entrez Gene to learn how to obtain information about a human gene such as its mRNA and genomic sequence, gene structure (exon-intron locations), function and phenotypes associated with mutations. We will also learn how to determine whether the SNPs in the coding region of a gene are known to alter the function of the protein product.
Friday, May 11:
9:30-12:00 – Structural Analysis Quick Start
This course covers how to visualize and annotate 3D protein structures using NCBI’s Cn3D, identify conserved domain(s) present in a protein, seach for other proteins containing similar domain(s), explore a 3D modeling template for the query protein and find distant sequence homologs that may not be identified by BLAST.1:00-3:30 – Mapviewer Quick Start
In this course, we will use the human genome Map Viewer. Used to view the NCBI assembly of the complete human genome, Map Viewer is a valuable tool for the identification and localization of genes that contribute to human disease. In this course, we will see how to view different human genome maps and make best use of them. We will learn to locate a human gene, download its sequence along with its upstream sequence (to analyze promoter regions), obtain exon-intron coordinates, find a possible splice variant and identify whether the variations in the gene are associated with a disease.
About the Instructors:
Simin Assadi and Steve Pechous are biologists on the User Services staff of the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
NOTE: CLASSES ARE FULL!