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Check out the MIT Libraries’ IAP events!

By on December 22, 2006

Are you wondering what an RSS feed is and how it can help your research? Interested in consumer or company information? Want to learn more about using GIS, EndNote or RefWorks? Need to find chemical information, energy information, social science data, or patents? Want to learn how to marble paper, improve your photography, or help developing countries?

Look no further! The MIT Libraries are offering classes on these topics and much more. Look at the MIT Libraries IAP Activities list for more information.

Tango on over to Stata and check out a book or CD!

By on December 7, 2006


On Thursday, December 14th the MIT Tango Club and the MIT Libraries’ Bookmobile are offering a unique opportunity to see a performance of one of the most beautiful dance styles in the world, and check out great books and music.

From 12:30 to 1pm members of the Tango Club will take to the floor and steam up the Stata Center with their elegant moves. Before or after the performance, be sure to check out the Bookmobile’s selection of popular books and music including an expanded selection of Tango music (recently donated by the Tango Club) available for immediate check-out with your MIT ID.

Where: Stata Center (Building 32), Libraries’ Information Intersection
When: Thursday, December 14th, 11am-2pm
Cost: Free!

Light refreshments will be served.

Mark the date! Next MIT Libraries’ booksale will be on April 3rd

By on December 4, 2006
The next MIT Libraries book sale will be on:

Tuesday, April 3rd, 10-3

Bush Room 10-105

Questions? Contact the Gifts Office at gifts-lib@mit.edu or x3-5693

All proceeds benefit the Libraries’ Preservation Fund.

MIT COMMUNITY ONLY

Archives December exhibit announces a grant from the Fred J. Brotherton Charitable Foundation

By on December 1, 2006

William Barton RogersMIT’s founder, William Barton Rogers, was born 202 years ago on December 7. It is appropriate, then, that the Institute Archives and Special Collections, in its December Object of the Month exhibit, announces a grant from the Fred J. Brotherton Charitible Foundation to perform conservation work on one hundred documents from the Rogers papers, one of MIT’s most important historical collections. The grant includes funds to convert the guide to the Rogers papers to EAD (Encoded Archival Description), an encoding standard for electronic archival finding aids, to make information about the collection available on the World Wide Web.

MIT Libraries booksale, Thursday 11/30, 10-3

By on November 15, 2006
MIT Libraries booksale

Books on a variety of subjects will be available.

Thursday, November 30th, 10-3

Bush Room 10-105

Questions? gifts-lib@mit.edu or x3-5693

All proceeds benefit the Libraries’ Preservation Fund.

MIT COMMUNITY ONLY

authors@mit presents Diana Henderson on 11/14 (Tuesday), 5:30 pm

By on November 9, 2006
Please join us as MIT’s Diana Henderson discusses her new book,
“Collaborations with the Past.” By concentrating on rich yet problematic
instances of Shakespeare’s reanimation in such quintessentially modern forms
as the novel and film, from Sir Walter Scott’s “Kenilworth” to Kenneth
Branagh’s “Henry V”, Diana Henderson sketches a complex history of the
pleasures and difficulties that ensue when Shakespeare and modern artists
collaborate.

Location: MIT 32-155, Stata Center, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge

Time: November 14 (Tuesday), 5:30 pm

This event is free and wheelchair accessible.

Diana Henderson’s Collaborations with the past

Cornell University Press, 2006

Diana E. Henderson is Professor of Literature at MIT. She is the author of
“Passion Made Public: Elizabethan Lyric, Gender, and Performance” and the
editor of “A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen.”

This event is sponsored by authors@mit, a lecture series cosponsored by MIT
Libraries and The MIT Press Bookstore.

For more information call 253-5249, email authors@mit.edu, or check:
http://web.mit.edu/bookstore/www/events/

Lewis Music Library anniversary celebration Wednesday, Nov.15

By on November 7, 2006

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Don’t miss the Lewis Music Library’s 10th birthday party!

The 10th anniversary celebration of the Lewis Music Library’s renovation will be held Wednesday, November 15, 2006, from 2-4 pm.

MIT community members and friends will gather in the Lewis Music Library (Bldg. 14E-109) for refreshments, music, remarks by MIT Libraries Director Ann Wolpert, and a raffle for an iPod nano.