{"id":22024,"date":"2016-05-13T13:03:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T17:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/?page_id=22024"},"modified":"2026-10-06T13:11:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T17:11:36","slug":"in-the-media","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/in-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"In the media"},"content":{"rendered":"

OCTOBER 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"ChrisChris Bourg named vice provost and Barbara K. Ostrom (1978) Director of the MIT Libraries<\/a><\/strong>
\nMIT News<\/a>
\nAs director, Bourg has focused on digital access, open and equitable scholarly publishing, and expanded support for data-intensive research.<\/p>\n

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SEPTEMBER 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"A new chapter for MIT Reads<\/a><\/strong>
\nMIT News<\/a>
\nA new focus on fiction and memoir aims to help the MIT community celebrate the power of storytelling and strengthen social connection.<\/p>\n

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JANUARY 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

At MIT, \u2018a bunch of hard-core nerds\u2019 celebrate Wikipedia\u2019s 25th birthday\"Wikipedia<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n

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MAY 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Wall\u2018Letterlocking\u2019 Review: Folds of Fascination<\/a><\/strong>
\nWall Street Journal<\/a>
\nIn the age of handwritten correspondence, the practice of manipulating a letter so that no envelope was needed rose to a kind of art.<\/p>\n

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MARCH 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"LetterlockingLetterlocking: A new look at a centuries-old practice<\/strong><\/a>
\nMIT News<\/a>
\nA first history of the document security technology, co-authored by MIT Libraries\u2019 Jana Dambrogio, provides new tools for interdisciplinary research.<\/p>\n

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JANUARY 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"ELIZA‘ELIZA,’ the world’s 1st chatbot, was just resurrected from 60-year-old computer code<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Live Science<\/a>
\nScientists have just resurrected “ELIZA,” the world’s first chatbot, from computer code found in Joseph Weizenbaum’s papers in MIT Libraries’ Distinctive Collections.<\/p>\n

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NOVEMBER 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"TakumaSamurai in Japan, then engineers at MIT<\/a>
\n<\/strong>MIT News<\/a>
\nA new exhibit explores the Institute\u2019s first Japanese students, who arrived as MIT was taking flight and their own country was opening up.<\/p>\n

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MARCH 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

New exhibits showcase trailblazing MIT women\"Black<\/a><\/strong>
\nMIT News<\/a>
\nMaterials from MIT\u2019s Distinctive Collections reveal stories of women at the Institute.<\/p>\n

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