Discover what’s new from the The Humanities Library and The Lewis Music Library’s collections, including books, DVDs and CDs.
Details:
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!
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.
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.
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.
Take advantage of a few extra days when you borrow music CDs, DVDs, and iPods over the summer! Since the Lewis Music Library will be closed Saturdays and Sundays beginning Memorial Day weekend, these items can be borrowed for a longer period of time over the weekend. This means:
Here are some new additions to the more than 18,000 CDs and nearly 1,000 DVDs in the library’s collection. Click on an image to see its Barton catalog record:
 Anderson, Marian. Alto rhapsody / Brahms. Selected spirituals. PhonCD An238 alt |
 Miles from India: a celebration of the music of Miles Davis. PhonCD J D295 milfr |
 Wilder, Gene. Young Frankenstein: the new Mel Brooks musical. PhonCD B791 you sel |
 Corea, Chick. The ultimate adventure: live in Barcelona. DVD J C8116 ult |
 Turnage, Mark-Anthony. Greek. DVD T849 gre |
 Verdi, Giuseppe. Attila. [Soloists, la Scala, Muti] DVD V584 att a |
The Lewis Music Library is located in Bldg.14E-109 and library hours are posted on the web.
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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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.
Solo Eclipse, the new CD by the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE), has just been received by the Lewis Music Library. This exciting disc contains world premiere recordings commissioned by Dr. Frederick Harris and MITWE. Click on the cover image to see the Barton catalog record.
Music CDs and DVDs circulate for 3 days (limit of 5; no renewals). The Lewis Music Library is located in Bldg. 14E-109 and library hours are posted on the web.
Thinking about birds, flowers, and good weather? Here are a few spring-related themes on music CDs in the Lewis Music Library, selected from the more than 18,000 CDs in the collection. Click on an image to view its Barton catalog record:
 Duke, John. Just-spring: art songs. [Kolb, Toglia] PhonCD D886 song |
 Grieg. Edvard. Peer Gynt, op.23. [Järvi] PhonCD G871 pe a |
 Messiaen, Olivier. Petites esquisses d’oiseaux; Catalogue d’oiseaux. [Austbø] PhonCD M563 petes |
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 Spano, Robert. Rainbow body: Theofanidis, Barber, Copland, Higdon. [Atlanta Symphony] PhonCD Sp24 rai |
 Spring awakening: a new musical. [Original Broadway cast] 1487849 precat |
 Woolf, Randall. Where the wild things are; based on the book by Maurice Sendak. [Various performers] PhonCD W884 whe |
Music CDs and DVDs circulate for 3 days (limit of 5; no renewals). The Lewis Music Library is located in Bldg. 14E-109 and library hours are posted on the web.
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.
Come see, and check out, highlights from The Humanities Library’s book and DVD collections, and The Lewis Music Library’s music collections.
Details:
Don’t forget! The 6th annual Prokopoff violin music concert will be held from noon-1 pm on Friday, April 18th, 2008 in the Lewis Music Library. Concert coordinator Sherman Jia (G) has lined up MIT student musicians Mark Avara ‘08, Albert Chow ‘08, Karen Chu ‘08, Laura Jacox ‘08, David Somach ‘11, Jason Wallace ‘10, Amy Xu (G), and accompanist Hsin-Bei Lee to perform works by Bach, Gershwin, Halvorsen, Kreisler, and Sarasate.
The Lewis Music Library is located in Bldg. 14E-109 and the concert is free and open to the public. The opening celebration for the MIT Libraries’ Maihaugen Gallery follows this concert. Come join us!
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.
The spring 2008 issue of What’s the Score? the newsletter of the Lewis Music Library is now available. The web version has been posted online and print copies are on the front counter in the library (Bldg. 14E-109).
Read about library activities, projects, and new subscriptions — and don’t miss the ever-popular bad music jokes!
Save the date! The 6th annual Prokopoff violin music concert will be held from noon-1 pm on Friday, April 18th, 2008 in the Lewis Music Library (Bldg. 14E-109). This annual event honors the extraordinary collection of violin music collected by Stephen Prokopoff and donated to the library in 2001 by Lois Craig, former Associate Dean of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. This year’s concert will feature several pieces from the collection including Fritz Kreisler’s Tambourin Chinois, Navarra by Pablo de Sarasate, Concerto for 2 violins in D minor by J. S. Bach, and other favorites performed by some of MIT’s finest student musicians.
The Lewis Music Library is located in Bldg. 14E-109 and the concert is free and open to the public. The opening celebration for the MIT Libraries’ Maihaugen Gallery follows this concert.
The first exhibit: A Celebration of Gifts will feature rare and unique items donated to the Libraries by MIT alumni, faculty, and friends. Among the treasures that will be exhibited to the public for the first time are items from the collection of the Institute’s founder, William Barton Rogers. The exhibit will also include original notebooks from Harold “Doc” Edgerton, several rare books including a first edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, and a book of illustrations from the 1553 volume Historiae animalium by Konrad Gesner. Also featured will be items from the personal library of architect Charles Bulfinch, balloon prints from the Vail Collection, books by architect Santiago Calatrava with original artwork, works from the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, and other items given to the Libraries.
The new facility is located adjacent to the Institute Archives (14N-118). The celebration will begin at 1pm with remarks by Ann Wolpert, director of the Libraries. Refreshments will be served. Please join us!
Photos by: L. Barry Hetherington, Bottom photo: Copyright Harold E. Edgerton 1992 Trust
Here are some recent music titles that have been purchased with an endowed fund that was established in honor of John N. Pierce ‘54 (see history of the fund, below). Click on an image to see its Barton catalog record:
 The bluegrass reader / edited by Thomas Goldsmith. ML3520.B58 2006 |
 Davis, Miles. Miles Davis. M85.D3857 2006 [score & audio CD] |
 MacColl, Ewan. The ballad of John Axon: a radio-ballad about the railwaymen of England. 1475467 [precat] |
 MacColl, Ewan. The body blow: a radio-ballad about the psychology of pain. 1475477 [precat] |
 MacColl, Ewan. On the edge: a radio-ballad about teenagers in England and Scotland. 1475478 [precat] |
 Ratliff, Ben. Coltrane: the story of a sound. ML419.C645.R37 2007 |
 Smith, Craig. Sing my whole life long: Jenny Vincent’s life in folk music and activism. ML420.V379.S65 2007 |
 Seeger, Mike. Talking feet: buck, flatfoot, and tap: solo Southern dance of the Appalachian, Piedmont, and Blue Ridge Mountain Regions. GV1624.A7.S44 1992 |
 Talking feet: DVD 1484452 [precat] |
History of the Pierce fund: In 1987, Mrs. Alice Pierce established an endowed fund in honor of her late husband, John N. Pierce ‘54. Arnold (’57) and Margit Orange and other donors have contributed generously to the fund. Mr. Pierce spent many hours in the Music Library between classes, and this is a particularly meaningful way for his family and friends to honor his memory. The income from the fund was first used to purchase materials in early music and blues; in 2007 the scope was expanded to include jazz and folk.
The Lewis Music Library is located in Bldg.14E-109 and library hours are posted on the web.
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