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Reserve a group study room

Before you reserve: Review guidelines

We want to make these rooms available to as many MIT students as possible. If your request violates any of these guidelines, it will be cancelled.

  • Group study rooms are for the use of current MIT students, faculty, and staff.
  • Groups have priority over individual users.
  • Rooms may be reserved for a maximum of 3 hours at a time.
  • Rooms may be reserved no more than 30 days in advance.
  • Rooms allow 2 future reservations.
  • Consecutive, concurrent, or recurring reservations are not permitted.
  • Only the Hayden study rooms are available when the Libraries are closed.
  • Reservations cannot be placed over the phone or by e-mail.

Reserving a group study room

Please review the guidelines above before reserving. If your request violates any of the reservation guidelines above, your reservation will be cancelled.

Reserve online (or check availability)

  1. Go to mycard.mit.edu – Kerberos credentials and duo authentication is required.
  2. Select Room Reservation from the left side Menu.
  3. Select Room Group > MIT Libraries on the top right drop-down menu (if applicable).
  4. Select the desired date, time, and length of reservation and a list of available spaces will appear.
    • Click the “i” icon for more details about a specific room: capacity and equipment available (ie. wall mounted LCD, laptop connector cables, phone, and white board).
    • Click the calendar icon to view the expanded group study room schedule. A window appears to view the room schedule by Day and Week. Use the arrow buttons to navigate the room schedule. Click the “dot” button to return to the current date.
    • Click the calendar icon if you need to return to the list of rooms.
  5. Click the Reserve button next to the room you want to reserve. The new reservation screen appears. Fill out the form (event name, adjust date, time, length, who else will check in, email reservation preferences).
  6. Click the Confirm button to make the reservation.
  7. Click the Cancel button if you change your mind.
  8. You must check in at the beginning of your reservation to avoid cancellation.

Note: Log in to mycard.mit.edu at any time to view, update, or release (“cancel”) your reservation.

Reserve in-person:

This method can only be used for same-day reservations and cannot be done if the room is currently in use.

  1. Swipe your MIT ID at the card reader. (Note: If the reservation screen does not pop-up, you will need to reserve online at mycard.mit.edu)
  2. The new reservation screen appears. Fill out the form (event name, adjust date, time, length, who else will check in, email reservation preferences).
  3. Click the Confirm button to make the reservation.
  4. You must check in at the beginning of your reservation to avoid cancellation.

Check in for your reservation

  1. To check in, tap your MIT ID at the room’s card reader during the first 15 minutes of your reservation. If you do not do this, the system will cancel your reservation 15 minutes after the scheduled start time.
    • E.g., if your reservation begins at 2pm, you may check in starting at 2pm (not 1:59pm) and until 2:15pm. If you do not check in, your reservation will be cancelled at 2:16pm.

Cancel a reservation:

Log in to mycard.mit.edu to cancel your reservation.

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