Are you wondering what an RSS feed is and how it can help your research?
Want to learn more about using GIS, EndNote or RefWorks?
Need to find chemical information, social science data, or patents?
Want to learn Japanese book-binding, improve your photography, or how to compost with worms?
Look no further! Take a peek at all of the MIT Libraries IAP Activities offered in 2009.
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| Need a break from all your studies? We’re providing two opportunities, on two different days and times, to chow down this year. Here are the details:
First Food for Thought:
Second Food for Thought:
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On Wednesday, December 10, from 3 – 6pm, the Engineering and Humanities Libraries are holding a gaming event in the Media Room of the Barker Engineering Library (5th floor of building 10).
Celebrate the end of the semester with Rock Band, snacks and fun! No registration required.
A full-sized Peak Guitar that goes with Rock Band, Guitar Hero, PS2 and PS3 will be raffled off. See the Peak website for more information.
Contact Amy Stout with any questions.
Courtney Crummett, MIT Libraries’ Bioinformatics Librarian, has been featured in a recent profile by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), a U.S. Department of Energy institute focusing on science education and research. Her profile is featured amongst other scholars in the areas of science, mathematics, engineering, and other technical fields.
Crummett came to the MIT Libraries in 2007 as part of the highly selective National Library of Medicine (NLM) fellowship program. As part of her fellowship she was involved in a variety of challenging projects that included developing a video series of bioinformatics tutorials with Countway Library, supporting outreach efforts to HST, and working on scholarly publishing issues. In September of this year she accepted the position of Bioinformatics Librarian with MIT’s Engineering and Science Libraries. Read Crummett’s profile…
Looking for an easy way to find books and journals owned not only by MIT, but also by other libraries around the world? Try MIT Libraries’ WorldCat, an experimental interface to the Barton catalog.
Other features include:
For a full list of features, read About MIT Libraries’ WorldCat.
WorldCat doesn’t include everything owned by the MIT Libraries, so if you can’t find what you’re looking for, make sure to check Barton and Vera, or ask us!
We’d love to hear your thoughts on MIT Libraries WorldCat! Give feedback.
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
SciFinder is now also available on the web. The traditional downloadable “client” version will continue to be available, but will be phased out over the next 6-10 months.
Follow the instructions to register for the web version.
The MIT Libraries subscription allows a total of eleven (11) simultaneous users between the web (one-time registration required) and the client versions. Those 11 “seats” have been divided between the two versions. If one version reports that all seats are taken, please try again later or try the other version.
For more information, see the SciFinder guide. If you have any questions, contact the Chemistry Librarian, Erja Kajosalo.
WHERE: 14N-132, DIRC
WHEN: Friday, August 8, 12noon – 1pm
You may be a skilled investigator on the topic of science or engineering, but what do you know about business research? This session will introduce you to library-supported databases that cover company and industry information. We will use hands-on exercises to demonstrate strategies for researching two key components of a business plan: competitors and industry trends.
Contact Stephanie Hartman with any questions.
Full schedule of JulyAP 2008 information workshops
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.
Full schedule of JulyAP 2008 information workshops
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.
Full schedule of JulyAP 2008 information workshops
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.
We have ChemBioDraw for another year! The MIT Libraries continue to make this premier chemistry and biology drawing tool available to the entire MIT community thanks, partly, to the generous financial support from the Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering Departments, and Broad Institute.
Find out more about ChemBioDraw:
Questions? Email Erja Kajosalo, the Chemistry & Chemical Engineering Librarian.
The Barker Engineering Library is reorganizing its collections this summer to create room for the growth of book collections and to provide better access to materials.
In recent years, the Engineering and Science Libraries have greatly increased their electronic journal subscriptions. As a result of increased digital access, many of the print equivalents were moved to the Library Storage Annex (LSA). The space gained as a result of the collection move will allow Barker to rearrange collections, creating room for long-term growth.
Additionally, Barker’s journal collection will no longer be organized alphabetically by title. Instead, the collection has been given call numbers, which now appear in Barton, the Libraries’ online catalog. The new classification will make it easier to find the volume you need on the shelf.
The journal collection is currently being moved to its new location on the 8th floor, in its new call number order. If you have any questions during the reorganization, please ask for assistance at the service desk.
WHERE: 14N-132 (Digital Instruction Resource Center – DIRC)
WHEN: Friday, July 18, noon – 1pm
Class attendees will learn about the organization of key NCBI databases, understand the database record structure, and work with the BLAST search tool. The session is a hands-on practicum and an excellent starting point for people who are new to, or curious about bioinformatics research tools.
Feel free to bring your lunch! Drinks and dessert will be provided.
Sponsored by the MIT Libraries.
Contact the Science Library for more information.
Full schedule of JulyAP 2008 information workshops
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.
Full schedule of JulyAP 2008 information workshops
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.
Check out the new bioinformatics video tutorials, developed by the MIT Engineering and Science Libraries and Harvard’s Countway Library of Medicine. These tutorials aim to bring research help to your desktop.
The first installment of BITS covers the UCSC Genome Browser, which contains reference sequences and working draft assemblies for a large collection of genomes. The UCSC Genome Browser is developed and maintained by the Genome Bioinformatics Group, a cross-departmental team within the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at UCSC.
Watch these videos to learn more about the UCSC Genome Browser. Learn how to retrieve DNA sequence, display and configure the annotation tracks, identify gene intron-exon boundaries, and use the BLAT tool.
BIT 1.1: UCSC Genome Browser: Getting DNA Sequence (3:57)
BIT 1.2: UCSC Genome Browser: Using Annotation Tracks (5:47)
BIT 1.3: UCSC Genome Browser: Locating Intron-Exon Boundaries (4:56)
BIT 1.4: UCSC Genome Browser: Searching with BLAT (6:14)
Learn at your own convenience and your own pace.
Find the Bioinformatics Tutorial Series (BITS), and many other tutorials, on the video tutorials page.
Questions? Email ask-bioinfo@mit.edu.
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