| Reference Archivist Nora Murphy of the MIT Institute Archives and Special Collections will share facts and anecdotes about MIT’s sixteen presidents – from the first (Rogers) to the current (Hockfield) – today, January 20, 11am-12:00pm, 56-114. |  |
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Keeping Current: Using RSS Feeds to Stay Ahead in Your Research
What is an RSS Feed? We’ll tell you, plus teach you how to use this new technology to keep up with information in your fields of interest.
Come to one of the following sessions:
Wed Jan 18, 05-06:00pm, 14N-132 (DIRC)
Wed Jan 25, 05:15-06:15pm, 14N-132 (DIRC)
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Questions? Contact Darcy Duke, x3-9370
Meet the artist reception Jan 17, 3:00 pm
If you have visited the Hayden Library recently, you may have wondered who is behind the tent-like sculpture in the space beside the entrance. “Hideout” is Christina Hawkes final project for course 4.322. Come meet the artist, crawl inside the Hideout, and have your questions answered at a reception at 3:00 pm, this afternoon, Jan 17.
Learn how to find business information (for engineers and scientists)
You don’t need to be an expert in business to attend these workshops!
Industry Research for Engineers and Scientists: Exploring Markets and Products
Angie Locknar, Stephanie Hartman
Fri Jan 27, 12 – 1pm, 14N-132
Enrollment limited: first come, first served. Limited to 30 participants.
You want to turn your great idea into a successful product. Is your product unique? Is there a market for your product? What are the trends in the industry? This hands-on session will introduce you to resources and strategies for learning about industries, markets, and products.
Contact: Angie Locknar, 14s-134, x3-9320, locknar@mit.edu
Company Research for Engineers and Scientists: Know Your Prospective Employer or Partner
Howard Silver, Stephanie Hartman
Thu Feb 2, 12 – 1pm, 14N-132
Enrollment limited: first come, first served. Limited to 25 participants. Single session event.
You’re a researcher in Science and Engineering, but what do you know about company research? This session will introduce you to library-supported databases about companies and industries. We will use examples and hands-on exercises to demonstrate strategies for learning about prospective employers or partners. Biotech company research will be emphasized.
Contact: Howard Silver, 14S-134, x3-9319, hsilver@mit.edu
MIT Libraries’ IAP events – complete listing
Chemical Information sessions during IAP
Learn more about the powerful tools for finding chemical and materials information during these IAP sessions.
SciFinder Scholar: Advanced Reaction and Substructure Searching
Erja Kajosalo, Amy Christuk
Tues Jan 10, 1 – 2pm, 14N-132 (DIRC)
Enrollment limited: first come, first served. Limited to 20 participants.
Prereq: Basic knowledge of SciFinder Scholar searching
Are you a chemist, materials scientist, chemical engineer or someone else who needs chemical information in your research? Or would you like to improve your chemical information searching skills using SciFinder Scholar? Then this hands-on workshop is for you!
SciFinder Scholar is the most comprehensive database of chemical and related scientific information from 1840s, covering over 10,000 sci/tech journals and patents from >50 patent issuing authorities. Representative from “Chemical Abstracts Services” will teach advanced features of SciFinder Scholar, including reaction and structure searching. She will use real life complex examples that she’s worked on with her clients to teach these techniques.
Contact: Erja Kajosalo, 14S-132, x3-9795, kajosalo@mit.edu
CrossFire Beilstein and Gmelin – Advanced Searching
Erja Kajosalo
Wed Jan 11, 1 – 2pm, 14N-132 (DIRC)
Enrollment limited: first come, first served. Limited to 20 participants.
Prereq: Used either Beilstein or Gmelin
This session will concentrate on advanced substructure, reaction, and factual searching of organic and inorganic compounds in Beilstein and Gmelin databases using MDL Crossfire Commander software.
Contact: Erja Kajosalo, 14S-132, x3-9795, kajosalo@mit.edu
Introduction to PubChem
Erja Kajosalo
Tue Jan 24, 1 – 2pm, DIRC: 14N-132
Enrollment limited: first come, first served. Limited to 20 participants.
Learn about PubChem, a NIH database on biological activities of small molecules. Learn to search chemicals and substances by name or structure, or search bioassay records using terms from the bioassay description. PubChem is a component of NIH’s Molecular Libraries Roadmap Initiative.
Contact: Erja Kajosalo, 14S-134, x3-0795, kajosalo@mit.edu
Knovel — Engineering and Scientific (Hand)books
Erja Kajosalo, Robert Brandt
Wed Jan 25, 10 – 11:00am, DIRC: 14N-132
Enrollment limited: first come, first served. Limited to 20 participants.
If you work with properties materials or chemicals, this session is for you! Learn to use Knovel, a fully searchable database of online science and technology books, databases, and proceedings from over 30 publishers. Knovel covers 17 industrially important subject areas in the fields of chemistry, life sciences, materials, and engineering. Learn also how to use its productivity tools like interactive tables, graphs and live equations and how to export your search results.
Contact: Erja Kajosalo, 14S-132, x3-9795, kajosalo@mit.edu
What’s the Melting Point of H2O?: Finding Materials Properties Information
Angie Locknar
Tues Jan 31, 4 – 5pm, 14N – 132
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up.
You probably know the melting point of H2O is 0 C (or 32 F or 273.15 K). But what would you do if you didn’t know? Come learn about the wide variety of resources you can use to locate property information.
Contact: Angie Locknar, 14S-134, x3-9320, locknar@mit.edu
Introduction to Science of Synthesis
Erja Kajosalo, Alex Williams
Wed Feb 1, 1 – 2pm, 14N-132 (DIRC)
Enrollment limited: first come, first served. Limited to 20 participants.
Organic chemists! Learn to use “Science of Synthesis” which is an electronic edition of the classic Houben–Weyl. Alex Williams from Thieme Publishers will show you how to find evaluated synthetic methods from this database using (sub)structure and/or text searching. This session will allow participants time for hands-on use of the resource!
Contact: Erja Kajosalo, 14S-132, x3-9795, kajosalo@mit.edu
MIT Libraries’ IAP events – complete listing
Learn EndNote, RefWorks during IAP
Sign up now to attend these popular IAP sessions!
EndNote Basics
Howard Silver, Peter Cohn
Wed Jan 11, 5:15 – 6:15pm, 14N-132
Tue Jan 17, 4 – 5pm, 14N-132
Thu Jan 19, 1 – 2pm, 14N-132
Signup by: Jan 19, 2006. Limited to 20 participants. Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session.
EndNote is a “personal bibliographic software” package which allows you to create and manage a database of bibliographic references. Your database can be used to automatically generate in-text citations and bibliographies in your manuscripts. This session will be a hands-on practicum. Attendees will create a personal database of cited literature by importing references from resources such as Barton, Web of Science, PubMed and other sources of published literature. You will learn how to search and manipulate databases, and to generate a manuscript and bibliography.
RefWorks Basics
Howard Silver
Thu Jan 19, 4 – 5pm, 14N-132
Tue Jan 24, 3 – 4pm, 14N-132
Wed Jan 25, 4 – 5pm, 14N-132
Signup by: 25-Jan-2006. Limited to 20 participants. Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session.
RefWorks is a web-based resource designed to help you to organize references and create a bibliography. RefWorks allows you to search, retrieve relevant citations, and build your bibliography. It allows users to create individual or group accounts, and makes it easy to write papers, or post your results to web pages.
This session will be a hands-on practicum. Attendees will create a personal web account and create a database of cited literature by importing references from resources such as Barton, Web of Science, PubMed and other sources of published literature. You will learn how to organize your references, and to generate manuscripts and bibliographies.
To sign up for these classes, contact: Howard Silver, 14S-134, x3-9319, hsilver@mit.edu
MIT Libraries’ IAP events – complete listing
MIT Libraries IAP events
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, social science data, or patents?
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.
Snacks at Hayden, Friday 12/16 – Food for Thought
Take a break from studying and enjoy cookies and drinks, compliments of the Science Library.
Friday, December 16
2 – 3:30 p.m.
In the lobby outside Hayden Library (Building 14)
Good luck during finals!
authors@mit presents William J. Mitchell on 12/6 (Tuesday), 5:30 pm
authors@mit presents
William J. Mitchell speaking on his newest book, “Placing Words” (MIT Press, 2005).
The meaning of a message, says William Mitchell, depends on the context of its reception. “Shouting ‘fire’ in a crowded theater produces a dramatically different effect from barking the same word to a squad of soldiers with guns,” he observes. In his new book, Professor Mitchell looks at the ways in which urban spaces and places provide settings for communication and at how they conduct complex flows of information through the twenty-first century city.
Location: MIT E15, Bartos Theater, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge
Time: December 6 (Tuesday), 5:30 pm
For more information, please see: MIT Press Bookstore Events
Co-sponsored by the MIT Libraries and the MIT Press.