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!
Please join us at a Town Meeting about the Dewey Library renovation this Wednesday, August 27th at noon in E53-216. We will provide an overview of the project and hope to receive feedback from members of the MIT community on the plans.
You bring the comments and we’ll bring the pizza!
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
Thanks to funding from CRSP, Dewey Library will receive a much-needed renovation beginning at the end of December. In response to community feedback, we are updating Dewey to make it a more functional and attractive place for students, faculty and staff to study and conduct research in management and social sciences. The library will remain open throughout the renovation.
To learn more about the renovation and the various ways in which you can communicate with us about the project, please visit the ReDew: Renovating Dewey Library website. ReDew will be updated regularly as the project progresses so that everyone can know what’s happening.
Vera is getting a makeover! In mid-August the old Vera interface will be retired and the new Vera Multi-Search will take its place. You can check out the new interface now: Vera Multi-Search
The new Vera Multi-Search will still help you quickly find electronic journals, databases, and e-books, but now it will also help you search for articles and papers within journals, conference proceedings, etc.
It uses what’s known as a “federated search” to search databases from different publishers’ sites at once, including Web of Science, Proquest Research Library, our own library catalog, Barton, and more. It then merges the results and presents them to you in the Vera Multi-Search interface. When you click on a title, you are linked back to the publisher’s site that contains the full text of that article.
See our FAQ for more information and please let us know what you think!
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.
On August 1, new copiers were installed in Barker, Dewey, Hayden, and Rotch Libraries. Most of the older copiers have been removed, though one old copier remains in each of these libraries that still accepts the old Copy Cards. The new copiers will require TechCASH, Guest TechCASH, or new Copy/Print Only TechCASH cards for payment for copying and outside user printing.
MIT community: Copying will cost $.10 per page when paid for with TechCASH through an MIT ID.
MIT users without TechCASH can create TechCASH accounts at any time through the TechCASH web site. https://techcash.mit.edu
[note different address for the MIT community, with the "https" at the beginning ]
Guest TechCASH for MIT visitors: Copying and printing will cost $.15 per page with Guest TechCASH. Guest TechCASH can be used anywhere on campus where TechCASH is accepted, (e.g. La Verde’s, Forbes Coffee, etc. ) Value can be added to Guest TechCASH cards at any time with a credit card through the Guest TechCASH web site. http://guest.techcash.mit.edu/ [note different address from above, and that the URL begins with "http" rather than "https"]
Copy/Print Only TechCASH cards: Users with balances of greater than $10.00 (100 copies) can roll over copies from the existing (old) copy card system, Copies will be put on Copy/Print Only TechCASH cards. These cards are only valid in the MIT Libraries, and will expire June 30, 2009. Departments that want to purchase copies for a group to use will be issued Copy/Print Only TechCASH cards. Visit Document Services in the basement of Hayden Library for more information.
An old copier will be maintained in Barker, Dewey, Hayden, and Rotch until October 31, 2008. Anyone with an old copy card can continue to make copies with one of these older copiers until October 31.
Copier Locations: http://libraries.mit.edu/about/copier-locations.html
TechCASH FAQ: http://libraries.mit.edu/about/faqs/tech-cash.html
Note: On August 1, 2008, TechCASH will become the preferred method of payment for photocopying in the MIT Libraries. If you have purchased a Copy/Print Card from the MIT Libraries prior to August 1, 2008, please consult the FAQ: Tech Cash in the MIT Libraires to find out what to do after this change.
In July 1965 MIT Professor of Electrical Measurements Harold “Doc” Edgerton produced a batch of multiflash baseball photos and sent them to long-time colleague Vannevar Bush for comment. The Archives’ August Object of the Month exhibit includes Bush’s response, in which he records his thoughts about the physics of baseball, and a page from Edgerton’s notebook showing two of the baseball pictures (Bush’s letter and Edgerton’s notebook from the Harold E. Edgerton Papers - MC 25).
The papers of Bush (MC 78) as well as those of Edgerton are available for use in the Institute Archives and Special Collections, 14N-118.
Photograph © Harold E. Edgerton 1992 Trust
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