MIT Libraries News

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
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:

• Date: Thursday April 17th, 2008
• Time: 10:30AM - 2:30PM
• Where: Lobby 10
• Cost: FREE!!!

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!

Introduction to Google Maps API (5 - 6 pm)

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).

Google Maps Codelab (6 - 7 pm)

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.

On Friday, April 18, from 1-3pm the MIT Libraries will host a community celebration in honor of the opening of the Maihaugen Gallery. The newly constructed exhibit space will showcase some of the extraordinary items from the MIT Libraries’ collections.

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.

Did you know there are many ways to access the licensed copies of e-journals that we subscribe to? The methods below work from anywhere as long as you have MIT certificates installed or are using MIT’s VPN client.

1. Go to Vera and type the title in the search box.
(Our database called “Vera” has been the primary way to access e-journals since 2000).

2. Go to http://libraries.mit.edu/ejournals and type the title in the search box
(This page is part of a new version of Vera, which is currently in beta).

3. Go to our Full Text Finder: http://libraries.mit.edu/fulltext
If you have a complete citation to an article, you can enter it and go directly to the article (in most cases).

4. Search for an article using Google Scholar. Set your preferences to say that you want the MIT Libraries links. Then follow links that say “full text - MIT Libraries.” For details, see Making Google Scholar work for you. (Google Scholar does not index ALL of our licensed e-journals, so try Vera if you don’t find it in Google Scholar).

5. Go directly to the journal’s web site. Insert our proxy server string by typing it in front of the URL and then reload the page. See: Manually inserting the proxy string.

6. Install our bookmarklet in your browser toolbar. Go to the journal web site and then click on the bookmarklet, which inserts the proxy string automatically. See Inserting the proxy string with a bookmarklet.

7. In Firefox, install our LibX toolbar. Go directly to a journal’s web site. Right click on the page and select “reload this page via MIT Libraries’ proxy.” See a video of how this works. (A version of LibX for Internet Explorer is under development).

8. In Firefox, install our search toolbar widget for Vera:
see: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=MIT+vera
For more info, see: Search for journals in Vera with the new Firefox search bar.

9. If you install MIT’s VPN client and log in before you visit a journal’s web site, you will be able to access our subscription e-journals. (It will see you as if you are coming from ON CAMPUS). See VPN: an alternative off-campus option. With this method, #5, 6, and 7 above are not needed.

10. Within our licensed databases, such as Web of Science or SciFinder Scholar, look for buttons that say “Get this - MIT”. Those links will take you directly to our licensed copies of articles using our “open URL resolver” which is called SFX. To see a list of our licensed databases, see Vera shortcuts.

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These methods work only if you are ON CAMPUS:
1. Go to our Barton catalog and search for the title. Links in Barton work only from ON-CAMPUS . (A project to change this is in the works).

2. Go directly to the journal’s web site.
If you’re ON campus, and we have a subscription, you’ll get in (in most cases).

Come see, and check out, highlights from The Humanities Library’s book and DVD collections, and The Lewis Music Library’s music collections.  Items have been selected in honor of the upcoming President’s Day holiday.

Details:

• Date: Friday February 15th, 2008
• Time: 10:30AM - 2:30PM
• Where: Lobby 10
• Cost: FREE!!!

The Lewis Music Library’s compact discs of the MIT Symphony Orchestra (MITSO) now include many CDs from the 1960s-1990s when David Epstein was the conductor. A multi-year project to convert old reel-to-reel tape recordings of the orchestra to digital format was funded by the Epstein family, MITSO alums, and other donors.

Library staff have checked the audio and inserts for 55 of the 72 concerts. As each is done and ready to circulate, the Barton catalog status is changed from Received/Not Available” to “In Library.” A MITSO playlist in iTunes is also being built, so if you are close enough to Bldg. 14 you can listen to sample tracks there.

Examples:

MIT Symphony Orchestra: April 9, 1967.
PhonCD M69275 mit 1967 Apr9
Contents: Antonin Dvorak, Symphony no. 4 in G major, opus 88; J.S. Bach, Brandenburg concerto no. 4; Roberto Gerhard, Dances from the ballet “Don Quixote.”

MIT Symphony Orchestra: May 10, 1975.
PhonCD M69275 mit 1975 May10
Contents: George W. Chadwick, Overture to Rip Van Winkle; Arthur Berger, Three pieces for string orchestra; Aaron Copland, Orchestral variations; W.A. Mozart, Symphony no. 35 in D major, K. 385 (Haffner).

MIT Symphony Orchestra: December 9, 1995.
PhonCD M69275 mit 1995 Dec9
Contents: José Luis Elizondo, Estampas mexicanas: Ferial; Danza del pájaro sagrado; Teotlalli; Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano concerto no. 2 in B flat, op. 19; Johannes Brahms, Symphony no. 1 in c, op. 68.

Want to find others? Here are two suggestions for searching them in Barton:

• Author keyword: MIT Symphony Epstein
• Call number browse: PhonCD M69275 mit

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.

Come see, and check out, highlights from The Humanities Library’s book and DVD collections, and The Lewis Music Library’s music collections, with a special focus on the African American experience.

Details:

• Date: Friday January 18th, 2008
• Time: 10:30AM - 2:30PM
• Where: Lobby 10
• Cost: FREE!!!

Musicians and audience members needed for the first-ever fiddle jam session of traditional music! The event will be held on Thursday, January 17, from 2-4 pm in the Lewis Music Library, 14E-109.

Do you play fiddle, flute, whistle, pipes, harp, accordion, banjo, guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, bodhrán, or harmonica? Do you sing?

Come join with other MIT musicians playing traditional music from the library’s collection.

Listeners also needed!

Musicians are asked to sign up by January 10th (limited to 12 musician participants). Contact Cate Gallivan, 14E-109, (617) 253-7389, categal@mit.edu

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, energy information, social science data, or patents?

Want to learn how to marble paper, 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 2008.

The Lewis Music Library recently ordered the Hyperion Schumann Edition, a series of beautiful and award-winning recordings of Robert Schumann songs performed by top singers accompanied by pianist Graham Johnson. The final volume of the series is not yet released, but most of the discs have been received and are ready to circulate.

Click on a call number link to see the Barton catalog record:

Schumann, Robert. The Hyperion Schumann edition: Complete songs = Sämtliche Lieder = Mélodies intégrales.
PhonCD Sch86 song f v.1 [Christine Schäfer, soprano; Graham Johnson, piano]
vol.2 on order [Simon Keenlyside, baritone; Graham Johnson, piano]
PhonCD Sch86 song f v.3 [Juliane Banse, soprano; Graham Johnson, piano]
PhonCD Sch86 song f v.4 [Stella Doufexis, mezzo-soprano; Oliver Widmer, baritone; Graham Johnson, piano; London Schubert Chorale, Stephen Layton, conductor (in the partsongs)]
PhonCD Sch86 song f v.5 [Christopher Maltman, baritone; Graham Johnson, piano; with Polyphony, Stephen Layton, conductor]
PhonCD Sch86 song f v.6 [Geraldine McGreevy, soprano; Stella Doufexis, alto; Adrian Thompson, tenor; Stephan Loges, baritone; Graham Johnson, piano; Stephen Hough, piano]
PhonCD Sch86 song f v.7 [Dorothea Röschmann, soprano; Ian Bostridge, tenor; Graham Johnson, piano; Polyphony, Stephen Layton, conductor]
PhonCD Sch86 song f v.8 [Mark Padmore, tenor; Christopher Maltman, Jonathan Lemalu, baritones; Graham Johnson, piano; with members of the Ex Cathedra Consort]
PhonCD Sch86 song f v.9 [Felicity Lott, Ann Murray, sopranos; Graham Johnson, piano]
1481647 precat (vol.10 of the series) [Kate Royal, Felicity Lott, Lydia Teuscher, sopranos; Ann Murray, Daniela Lehner, mezzo-sopranos; Stephan Loges, baritone; Christoph Bantzer, reciter; Graham Johnson, piano]

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.

The Humanities Library will hold its next Bookmobile on Tues., Dec. 18th, from 11-2 in Lobby 10. Choose from books, DVDs, audiobooks and music, to keep you entertained during the long holiday break.

Come check us out!