Discover what’s new from the The Humanities Library and The Lewis Music Library’s collections, including books, DVDs and CDs.
Details:
Please join us at The MIT Humanities Library as MIT’s Christopher Capozzola introduces his new book.
“Uncle Sam Wants You” tells the gripping story of the American homefront in World War I, revealing how the tensions of mass mobilization led to a significant increase in power in Washington, and made wartime America the scene of some of the nation’s most serious political violence.
“Uncle Sam Wants You” is published by Oxford University Press.
Christopher Capozzola is an Associate Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
This event is sponsored by authors@mit, a lecture series cosponsored by MIT Libraries and The MIT Press Bookstore.
Where: The MIT Humanities Library Reading Room (14S-200)
When: Wednesday September 24th, 5:30pm
The event is free and wheelchair accessible.
For more information, call call 253-5249, or email authors@mit.edu. See the MIT Press Bookstore’s “Events” page for a list of upcoming events.
Tenure-track, visiting and emeriti faculty can now take advantage of a new service. 
Find a book you want in Barton, click on “Request item,” log into “Your Account” and select “office delivery” from the drop-down menu.
The book you requested will arrive at your office mailroom in 2-3 business days via campus mail.
For more information, please see our FAQ.
Vera Multi-Search - Vera had a makeover!
The new Vera Multi-Search will still help you find electronic journals, databases, and e-books, and now it will also help you search for articles within journals, conference proceedings, etc. See the FAQ page for more information.
New LibGuides
We’ve adopted a new system of creating guides to help you find information related to your research.
PDF delivery from the Library Storage Annex
Looking for a journal article, conference proceeding, technical report or book chapter that’s in the Library Storage Annex? Use the “Request PDF” button in the Barton catalog record to get PDF delivery to your desktop. This service is free to members of the MIT community with an Illiad account.
Manage Your Research Data More Effectively
The Libraries have a new resource to help you in managing research data that you produce. Check out the guide to Data Management and Publishing.
Printing, Copying and Scanning Improvements
Hayden, Barker, Dewey and Rotch Libraries are moving to TechCASH with new copiers and scanners. You’ll now be able to use TechCASH (MIT ID) to pay at copiers, print for free (MIT community only) through Athena printers, and make color scans that you can email or save to your USB drive. See the Printing FAQ and the TechCASH FAQ for more information.
And coming soon…
Look for an expanded Libraries presence in Stellar including a link to the MIT Libraries Quick Start!
Welcome to the MIT Libraries!
Orientation: Fall 2008
Undergraduate Students || Graduate Students || All Students
Attend these events to become familiar with what the Libraries have to offer – our staff, collections, services, and resources.
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS:
Academic Expo
Freshmen Explorations: Ice Cream Social
Hitchhiker’s Guide Library Tours
GRADUATE STUDENTS:
Graduate Student Orientation: Grad School 102
8th Annual New Graduate Student Reception
ALL STUDENTS:
Health & Wellness Fair
WHERE: 14N-132 (Digital Instruction Resource Center - DIRC)
WHEN: Friday, August 1, 12:30 - 1:30pm
While you won’t come out of this session qualified to be a patent attorney, you will be able to successfully find patent references from all over the world and know how to obtain patent text and diagrams. The session will be a hands-on practicum that will help de-mystify the patent literature and expose attendees to key resources for finding patents through free resources available on the web.
Feel free to bring your lunch! Drinks and dessert will be provided.
Sponsored by the MIT Libraries.
See http://libraries.mit.edu/patents for more information. Contact Darcy Duke with any questions.
Due to the ongoing demolition of the plaza in front of E53, an alternate entrance into the building and Dewey Library is in effect.
To enter the building:
This detour will be in effect until sometime in the fall.
WHERE: 14N-132 (Digital Instruction Resource Center - DIRC)
WHEN: Friday, July 25, noon - 1pm
Geared for graduate students, this workshop addresses what copyright means to you as an author, how you can assess a publisher’s copyright policies, and how you can use web-based tools that assess journal quality. Open access publishing models and the use of the MIT amendment to alter standard publisher agreements will also be discussed.
Feel free to bring your lunch! Drinks and dessert will be provided.
Sponsored by the MIT Libraries.
Contact Ellen Duranceau for more information.
For the safety of the MIT community, the Dewey Library will be closed on Saturday, July 19th. The temporary entrance to E53 will be closed due to demolition work on the Sloan Plaza.
Dewey will be open as usual on Sunday the 20th from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m.. We apologize for any inconvenience.
WHERE: 14N-132 (Digital Instruction Resource Center - DIRC)
WHEN: Friday, July 11, noon - 1pm
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. It can also help you organize and manage your PDF files. 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.
Feel free to bring your lunch! Drinks and dessert will be provided.
Sponsored by the MIT Libraries.
Contact the Science Library for more information.
Do you ever use the Humanities Library’s Virtual Browsery? What about the RSS feed of new titles added to the Virtual Browsery? To maintain this service, we need to hear from you. Please email us your thoughts:
The Humanities Library thanks Peter Lamb, Jamie Edwards and Dawn Song for their excellent work in our library….and we congratulate them for graduating!
Hayden Library — Humanities & Science — will stay open 24 hours a day during Finals
from Thursday, May 15th at 8am to Friday, May 23rd at 7pm.
Overnight hours are for the MIT community only.
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Take a break from all your studying and come grab yourself a snack, compliments of the Hayden (Humanities and Science) Library. Sorry, no pizza or burgers, but plenty of cookies and beverages will available. Here are the details:
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Want to see if a copy of Junot Diaz’ new book is available? Can’t find the West Mezzanine? Come to our new “Quick Search Work Station,” just inside our main entrance. Easy access to The Humanities Library homepage, and Barton (our online catalog), is at your finger tips, and a new color-coded map of our library helps you find your way around.
Were you unable to attend a Libraries’ sponsored IAP session this January? Wish you could have attended the March workshops on Building an EndNote Library, or the recent class on Google Maps?
The Libraries are pleased to unveil recordings of our popular workshops. The sessions were recorded in cooperation with Academic Media Production Services (AMPS) and are viewable both on and off campus with your MIT Certificates.
To see a list of recordings, go to the MIT Libraries Video Tutorials page and scroll down to Videos of Recent Workshops.
Contact Angie Locknar with any questions.
Citation Surfing: Using Databases to Track Article Citations
Michael Noga
Learn how to find and use information more effectively in our hands-on workshops. No advanced registration required. Light refreshments will be served at each session.
**NOTE that different events will be happening throughout the month of April and early May.**
WHERE: 14N-132 (Digital Instruction Resource Center – DIRC)
WHEN: Friday, May 2, 12pm (noon)
Have your ever used the Web of Science to find citations? Have you used Google Scholar? Perhaps you have used citation links in journal articles. This session will explore the different ways you can use citation searching to identify literature on a subject.
Sponsored by the MIT Libraries.
Contact the Science Library for more information.
Social Explorer provides over 3200 maps, and thousands of variables, painting a picture of US population change from 1790 to 2000. The MIT Libraries’ subscription to Social Explorer provides the MIT community with access to the full set of data, for all years if you use this url to enter the website: http://libraries.mit.edu/get/explorer
Come see, and check out, highlights from The Humanities Library’s book and DVD collections, and The Lewis Music Library’s music collections.
Details:
Googler Pamela Fox will give a whirlwind tour of the Google Maps API and KML, teaching the basics of each and showing off some of the really fun applications of them (like campus maps, interactive panoramas, and fantasy worlds).
Interactive codelabs in the topics addressed in the Introduction to Google Maps API. Codelab participants should come prepared with basic Javascript or XML experience, and will find debugging the Maps API easier if they have Firebug installed.
Both sessions will be held in 14N-132.
Food will be provided
Email gishelp at mit.edu if you have questions.
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