 Shown here is a portion of a drawing of the sewing machine’s parts. |
For November the Institute Archives and Special Collections features as its Object of the Month patent records of Blatchford, Seward & Griswold, a law firm that represented many of the nineteenth century’s most illustrious inventors, among them Samuel F. B. Morse (regarding unlicensed telegraph lines), Charles Goodyear (regarding patent extension of a rubber manufacturing process), and Elias Howe, Jr. (regarding patent extension for the sewing machine). Several items concerning Howe’s sewing machine are included in the exhibit. |
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Save the date! Lewis Music Library anniversary celebration Wednesday, Nov. 15
Lewis Music Library turns 10!
The Lewis Music Library will host a celebration from 2-4 pm on Wednesday, November 15, 2006, in honor of the 10th anniversary of the library renovation.
Join us for live music performances, refreshments, a raffle for an Apple iPod, and remarks by Ann Wolpert, Director of the MIT Libraries. We hope to see you then!
Raffle winners from Barker Library’s Media Suite Open House
Congratulations to the movie ticket raffle winners of Thursday night’s Barker Engineering Library Media Suite Grand Re-opening Event!
Nick Cordella
Ana Posada
Satoshi Takahashi
Albert Wang
About 125 people joined Barker staff in an event showcasing the new Media Viewing Suite in Barker on Thursday, October 12th. For more details about reserving and using the room see the Media Suite guide.
Join us for the Open House at the new Barker Library Media Suite: Thursday, October 12, 4-6pm
The Barker Engineering Library has a newly renovated Media Suite. Celebrate its reopening at an OPEN HOUSE on Thursday, October 12th, 4pm to 6pm.
Refreshments will be available as well as drawings for movie tickets!
The Barker Engineering Library Media Suite has been redesigned and equipped to support access to digital media for the MIT Community. It’s equipped with a 48″ plasma screen, a DVD/VCR player, laptop and computer station connections, and is web and cable-accessible. It supports small group viewing (up to four viewers for copyright-protected media), or larger informal viewing for other resources.
Outside the suite are two individual viewing stations, also equipped to handle web-accessible, DVD, and VHS media. Together, these offer an updated and comfortable environment for viewing items from Barker’s collection of engineering-related DVD’s and videos, as well as the growing amount of web-accessible seminars, lectures, and other video material available through MIT World, OCW, and non-MIT sites.
The room can be reserved for groups of up to 15 people by calling the Barker Service Desk at x3-5661 or emailing barker-circ@mit.edu. See the Media Suite guide for more details.
We hope you can join us on the 12th!
Check out Books, CDs & DVDs: the Bookmobile visits Lobby 10, Thursday, Oct 5, 11:00 – 2:00
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Every now and then (especially around Holidays) the staff of the Humanities and the Lewis Music libraries get restless. Then we are wont to pack up a sampling of our more interesting wares and go on the road. Look for the Bookmobile in Lobby 10 this Thursday where, from 11:00 to 2:00 you can check out books, including audio books, CDs and DVDs. Staff will also be happy to answer any questions you may have about the Libraries. We hope to see you there! |
Archives’ October exhibit evokes the smell of the greasepaint.
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The October Object of the Month exhibit by the Institute Archives and Special Collections presents the MIT Community Players’ 1958 Acting Workshop Production of The Madwoman of Chaillot, by Jean Gireaudoux.Each month the Archives exhibits an example from its collections to illustrate their richness and variety. A poster is displayed in the exhibit case opposite Room 14N-118 (and the following month in the Libraries’ kiosk at the Stata Center), and a version is created for the Web. We invite you to browse the online exhibits for a taste of our collections, then come to the Archives and explore them further. |
New Media Suite in Barker Library
Beginning this fall, members of the MIT Community will be able to use a new media suite in Barker Library for viewing visual media, and conducting group meetings, instruction sessions and presentations. The suite, on the fifth floor of Building 10, is equipped with a 48â€plasma screen, a DVD/VCR player, laptop and computer station connections, and it’s also web and cable-accessible. It’s ideal for viewing selections from Barker’s collection of over 200 engineering-related DVDs and videos. The room can be reserved for groups of up to 15 people by calling the Barker Service Desk at 253-5661 or sending email to barker-circ@mit.edu. Barker Library will host an open house in the suite on Thursday, October 12 from 4 to 6p.m.
Mapping with Geographic Information Systems
Demographics in Massachusetts, land use in New York City, the rapid population expansion in China, reconstructing sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean over the last 10,000 years, collection and representation of GIS data to aid household water treatment and safe storage technology implementation in the Northern Region of Ghana: this exhibit displays some of the different projects created in the MIT GIS Lab. Geographic Information Systems enable one to combine layers of geographic information in a dynamic digital environment for analyzing and visualizing information. To learn more about GIS at MIT visit the MIT GIS Lab website or come visit us in Rotch Library (7-238).
An evening with Chris Abani: Monday, Sept. 18
Nigerian writer and activist Chris Abani will visit MIT as an artist-in-residence Sept. 18-22. The Lewis Music Library will host an evening in which the author will read from his poetry and fiction as well as play his saxophone. The event will take place from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm on Monday.
Read about Abani in the press release from the MIT Office of the Arts.
The Lewis Music Library is located in Bldg. 14E-109 and the event is free and open to the public.