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Next pick of the week CDs

By on March 16, 2007

Here is another selection of CDs that have just arrived in the Lewis Music Library. Come to the library or visit the Humanities and Music bookmobile on Thursday, March 22 in Lobby 10!

Music CDs ordinarily circulate for 3 days (limit of 5, no renewals); however, this year there will be a special longer loan period beginning March 22nd and extending through spring break. The Lewis Music Library is located in Bldg. 14E-109 and library hours are posted on the web.

Books ‘n’ salsa at the MIT Humanities Library Bookmobile!

By on March 15, 2007

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Spice up your day with the hot hot moves of the MIT Salsa Club! Then, while your hips are still shaking, cha cha cha over to the ninth wonder of the world, the mysterious and magical Bookmobile, and check out a cd or a book or two (or three, or four). Now, here’s the kicker (so to speak): you can also enter our raffle for 1 FREE dance lesson for 2 from Salsa maestro Chris Zabo!

Los Details:

  • When: Thursday March 22nd
    10:30am – 2pm
    (dancing starts at 11)

  • Where: Lobby 10

  • Cost: FREE!!!

Longer CD/DVD loan over spring break

By on March 13, 2007

crocusThe Lewis Music Library is offering a special longer loan period for CDs and DVDs over spring break 2007. Music compact discs and DVDs borrowed Thursday, March 22 through Friday, March 30 will be due Monday, April 2 (by closing, 10pm). That’s more than a week, instead of the usual 3 days! Limit of 5, no renewals.

This longer loan period coincides with the Humanities & Music bookmobile on March 22 from 10:30am-2pm in Lobby 10. Special note: the MIT Salsa Club has agreed to come and dance! The library’s new salsa CDs and other Latin American CDs will be brought to the bookmobile.

The Lewis Music Library is located in Bldg. 14E-109 and library hours are posted on the web.

Working with US Census Data in a GIS – 3/2/2007

By on March 1, 2007

When: Friday, March 2, 2-4 pm
Where: MIT GIS Lab

The US Census holds an enormous amount of demographic information gathered over a long period of time. New and interesting relationships can often times be observed when looking at census data on a map. Come learn about what’s in the US Census, and the tools available at MIT for mapping it including: Geolytics, Pcensus, and the new Census Tool built into the MIT Geodata Repository for ArcGIS. More information available on the GIS workshops webpage

Single Households and Transit Choice in Boston

First issue of VooDoo is subject of Archives’ March exhibit

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VooDoo cats graphic

For March the Institute Archives and Special Collections has chosen “VooDoo, vol. 1, no. 1 (March, 1919): Student Humor at MIT” for its Object of the Month exhibit. Learn more about VooDoo and its mascot, Phosphorus the cat.

The Object of the Month is also displayed in an exhibit case across from the Archives, Room 14N-118.

Sign up now for the EBI Bioinformatics Roadshow on March 12 – 13

By on February 23, 2007

EMBL-EBI logo

The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) will be teaching 5 modules from their Bioinformatics Roadshow at Whitehead Institute and MIT on March 12 and 13. Each module lasts a half day and includes a lecture and hands-on training. For more information, see the complete session descriptions.

Monday, 3/12:
9:00-12:30: Transcriptomes – Intro (Whitehead – 7th floor)
1:30-5:00: Protein Structure – Intro (MIT 14N-132)
1:30-5:00: Intro Pathway Analysis Using Reactome (Whitehead – 7th floor)

Tuesday, 3/13:
9:00-12:30: Proteomes – Intro to Public-domain Resources (MIT 14N-132)
1:30-5:00: PRIDE for Proteomic Scientists (MIT 14N-132)

The Bioinformatics Roadshow is sponsored by Whitehead Institute, the MIT Libraries, the MIT Center for Cancer Research, the MIT Integrative Cancer Biology Program, and the MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences.

To sign up for sessions at Whitehead, contact sherrin@wi.mit.edu.
To sign up for sessions at MIT, contact: charliew@mit.edu.
Questions? Contact Louisa Worthington Rogers, the MIT Biology, Medicine & Neurosciences Librarian.

Introduction to ArcGIS

By on February 13, 2007

Spring GIS Lab workshops

ArcGIS I
Friday, February 16, 2-4 pm

Learn the basics of visualizing and analyzing geographic information and creating your own maps using ArcGIS, a powerful desktop Geographic Information System (GIS) available at MIT.

ArcGIS II
Friday, February 23, 2-4 pm

This class will introduce a variety of commonly used GIS tools, including learning to create and edit your own data, incorporate paper maps into a GIS (georeference), map tabular information (addresses and xy data – for example, from a GPS unit), change the projection of your data, calculate the straight line distance between points, create contour lines from a digital elevation model (DEM), and use ArcScene to visualize data in 3D.

Chill out this Presidents’ Day with a book, DVD, CD or audiobook

By on February 12, 2007

The Humanities Library will hold its next Bookmobile on Thursday, February 15, from 11am – 2pm at the Information Intersection in the Stata Center.

Old-school bookmobile

Line up and take your pick from selected books, DVDs, audiobooks and music for Presidents’ Day weekend.

Also check out Lewis Library’s extended CD/DVD offer.

Virtual Globes – Google Earth and World Wind – 2/9/2007

By on February 5, 2007

When: Friday, February 9, 12-1 pm
Where: MIT GIS Lab, Rotch Library, 7-238

We will explore the earth with Google Earth and World Wind – 2 freely available virtual globes. We will also explore KML (Keyhole Markup Language – the file format for Google Earth) and adding your own data into Google Earth. Registration not required, but seating is limited. For information about other upcoming GIS Lab workshops visit: //libraries.mit.edu/gis/teach/spring2007.html

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