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DECEMBER 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Inside “The Laughing Room”<\/a><\/strong>
\nMIT News<\/a>
\nAn artificial intelligence-powered laugh track amuses and unsettles in interactive installations by Jonny Sun.<\/p>\n

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NOVEMBER 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"GIS and Data Lab now open in Rotch Library<\/a><\/strong>
\nMIT News<\/a>
\nThe new space offers expanded resources in geographic information systems, data visualization, data management, and more for the Institute community.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Jonny Sun\u2019s New Art Project Is a Sitcom, Starring You<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Boston Magazine<\/a>
\nJonny Sun is debuting a playful and unsettling art project in Cambridge this month.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Want to be on a sitcom? Illustrator Jonny Sun is opening an interactive art exhibit in Cambridge<\/a><\/strong>
\nBoston Globe<\/a>
\nJonny Sun’s\u00a0interactive art installations open at Cambridge Public Library and Hayden Library Nov. 16.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Before Envelopes, People Protected Messages With Letterlocking<\/a><\/strong>
\nAtlas Obscura<\/a>
\nFor more than a decade, Jana Dambrogio, the Thomas F. Peterson conservator at MIT Libraries, has been studying \u201cletterlocking.\u201d<\/p>\n

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SEPTEMBER 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"MIT Open Access Task Force releases white paper<\/a>
\n<\/strong>MIT News<\/a>
\nPaper provides an overview of efforts to make research and scholarship more freely and openly available.<\/p>\n

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JULY 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Institute Archives spotlights pioneering women at MIT<\/a>
\n<\/strong>MIT News<\/a>
\nMIT News features the Institute Archives initiative to build collections highlighting the contributions of female faculty.<\/p>\n

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JUNE 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"MIT looked for slavery in its past… and undergrads found it in the present<\/a><\/strong>
\nOtherhood podcast, PRI<\/a>
\nRupee Shenoy interviews students in the MIT and Slavery course, Archivist Nora Murphy, and TA Clare Kim about confronting MIT’s\u00a0history and redefining what is meant by “slavery.”<\/p>\n

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\"\"MIT Libraries staff honored with 2018 Infinite Mile Awards<\/a>
\n<\/strong>MIT News<\/a>
\nCelebration recognizes exceptional achievements and contributions over the past year.<\/p>\n

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\"\"What Facebook can learn from academia about protecting privacy<\/a>
\n<\/strong>The Boston Globe<\/a>
\nMIT Libraries’ Micah Altman and Alexandra Wood from the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University suggest the tech industry could follow the scientific community’s lead if it wants to make safeguarding privacy a real priority.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Time and Tides in Boston Harbor<\/strong><\/a>
\nTufts Now<\/a>
\nThe papers of John Ripley Freeman (BS 1876) in the Institute Archives helped Tufts’ Andrew Kemp create a 200-year history of relative sea-level changes.<\/p>\n

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\"\"We Build on History<\/a>
\n<\/strong>MIT Spectrum<\/a>
\nA look at the Beaver Press, the\u00a0student-built letterpress in Barker Library<\/p>\n

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\"\"Are Libraries Neutral?\u00a0Highlights from the Midwinter President\u2019s Program<\/a><\/strong>
\nAmerican Libraries Magazine<\/a>
\nChris Bourg was part of\u00a0a conversation on the question of libraries as neutral organizations at the ALA\u00a0Midwinter Meeting and Exhibits in Denver.<\/p>\n

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APRIL 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Still looking for Levi<\/a><\/strong>
\nTechnology Review<\/a>
\nAs students dove into research on MIT and Slavery, archivist Nora Murphy did some digging of her own to discover whether William Barton Rogers owned slaves.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/p>\n

Peer to Peer Review: MIT Libraries Tackles Grand Challenges<\/a><\/strong>
\nLibrary Journal<\/a>
\nAlexandra Chassanoff, DLF\/CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow at the MIT Libraries, recaps the Grand Challenges Summit.<\/p>\n

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MARCH 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

MIT Libraries host Grand Challenges Summit<\/a><\/strong>
\nMIT News<\/a>
\nExperts in information science and scholarly communication convene at MIT to set research agenda.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Sarah Hulsey, Picturing Language<\/a><\/strong>
\nArts at MIT<\/a>
\nA Q&A with Sarah Hulsey, PhD’08, whose artist’s books are in the collection of Rotch Library.<\/p>\n

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FEBRUARY 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"MIT Exploring Link Between Slavery and Science, Discovers Founder Was a Slave Owner<\/strong><\/a>
\nNECN<\/a>
\nIn a class that started this past fall, students and researchers uncovered how MIT has its roots in the slave economy.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"\u2018It was not expected\u2019 that MIT Founder Owned Slaves in 1860<\/a><\/strong>
\nWCAI<\/a>
\nArchivist Nora Murphy and history professor Craig Steven Wilder join Living Lab Radio to discuss the MIT and Slavery course and project.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Looking into its past, MIT finds its first president once owned slaves<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Boston Globe<\/a>
\n“Over the course of the fall semester, the MIT students and their mentors uncovered myriad connections between MIT and slavery, some blatant and others nuanced…The students learned how to do the research thanks to MIT archivist Nora Murphy and history professor Craig Wilder.”<\/p>\n

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\"\"MIT class reveals, explores Institute\u2019s connections to slavery
\n<\/a><\/strong>MIT News
\n<\/a>An MIT history class co-taught by Craig Wilder and archivist Nora Murphy had students working closely with the Institute Archives to examine the legacy of slavery in relationship to the university.
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"SarahDiscovering Book Arts at MIT
\n<\/span><\/a><\/strong>Slice of MIT<\/a>
\nThe MIT Alumni Association blog looks at artist books by Sarah Hulsey PhD \u201908, whose work is featured in the MIT Libraries collections.<\/span><\/p>\n

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JANUARY 2018\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"UniversityA New Home for AI: The Library
\n<\/a><\/strong>Inside Higher Ed
\n<\/a>Inside Higher Ed<\/em>\u00a0article features MIT Libraries’ Chris Bourg and Andromeda Yelton in a look at the ways libraries can support exploration of artificial intelligence.
\n<\/a>
\n<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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