http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog News & updates from the libraries at MIT Wed, 14 May 2008 21:55:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/hayden-open-24-hours/1133/ 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: Where: Hayden Library (14S-100) lobby When: Thursday May 15th, 3-4:30pm Cost: FREE!!! http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/thought-thursday-brain/1130/ 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 ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/quick-search-station/1129/ The faculty of the Harvard Law School has voted unanimously to make articles authored by faculty members available in an open online repository. This is the first law school to commit to open access for its authors' work. As reported in the Harvard Law School news, Dean of the Law ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/harvard-school-faculty/1121/ The latest in the series of podcasts on scholarly publication and copyright is an interview with George Stiny, Professor of Computation in the Department of Architecture at MIT. Professor Stiny explains the significance of copying in the design process from his unusual perspective - a perspective that blends art and design ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/podcast-professor-4/1115/ Exhibit in Rotch Library – Urban Studies/Random Views Urban Studies/Random Views, on view from May 5th to July 18th, is a collection of recent oil paintings by Carol Schweigert of Dewey Library. The paintings were initially inspired by the dynamic views of the ongoing construction surrounding the Library. The focus expanded to ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/rotch-library-exhibit-2/1120/ 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 ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/bioinformatics-video/1118/ This month the Institute Archives and Special Collections focuses on some of MIT’s early energy research. Robert J. Van de Graaff came to MIT in 1931, where he worked on the development of the high-voltage generator that bears his name. May’s Object of the Month describes the apparatus and includes ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/graaff-generator-subject/1105/ 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 ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/video-recordings-2008/1110/ The Second Annual Sparky Awards, a contest that recognizes the best new short videos on the value of information sharing, were announced today. The 2008 contest theme is “MindMashup: The Value of Information Sharing.” Videos of two minutes or less that "imaginatively portray the benefits of the open, legal exchange ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/video-contest-student/1112/ The MIT Libraries have launched the sixth puzzle in a series of puzzles that can be solved using Libraries’ resources. The puzzles will be released over the course of the Spring 2008 semester, appearing in the Tech, on kiosks in Lobby 7, and elsewhere around campus. MIT students can view ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/libraries-puzzle-4/1109/ 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 ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/wind-ensemble-cd/1108/ 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 ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/spring-music-cds/1098/ By February 2009, any Landsat archive scene selected by a user will be processed, at no charge, automatically to a standard product recipe and staged for electronic retrieval. In addition, newly acquired scenes meeting a cloud cover threshold of 20% or below will be processed to the standard recipe and ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/landsat-image-policy/1097/ Bureau van Dijk's Zephyr database is now available at MIT: http://libraries.mit.edu/get/zephyr. Zephyr provides: summaries and financial details about worldwide corporate mergers & acquisitions transactions such as IPOs, buyouts, and joint ventures private equity and venture capital financing details How does Zephyr compare with SDC Platinum? Zephyr is web-based and requires no software download Zephyr ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/access-deals-through/1095/             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 ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/iapril-citation-surfing/1092/ The MIT Libraries now subscribe to over 2,000 e-books from CRC Press, adding 7 new subject collections, including chemistry, engineering, energy, materials science and polymers, nanotechnology, and mathematics. To search all titles available to the MIT Community, visit CRCnetBASE, or go to each individual subject collection to browse titles.  With time, ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/online-books-available/1090/ 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 ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/social-explorer-census/1089/ 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!!! http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/presidents-weekend-2/1088/ 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 ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/violin-music-concert/1087/ Need to expand your skills in statistical methods and quantitative analysis? Attend the ICPSR Summer Program! Each year, ICPSR provides ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/icpsr-summer-program/1086/ EndNote Basics Peter Cohn, Anita Perkins 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: ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/iapril-2008-endnote/1085/ 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 ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/introduction-google/1083/ Have you even been in Building 10 and wondered what exactly Vannevar Bush did to get the Bush Room named after him? Have you ever looked at the names on the buildings around Killian Court and asked yourself, what’s so great about Chladni, Gramme, and Regnault that their names are ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/complete-dictionary/1033/ Bioinformatics for Beginners Amy Stout, Courtney Crummett 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 ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/iapril-2008/1075/ The new NIH Public Access Policy of 2008 requires all NIH-funded investigators to submit their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts to the NIH’s PubMed Central (PMC) database (the digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature) upon acceptance for journal publication.  This policy, created to conform with a new law passed by Congress, applies ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/public-access-policy-2/1082/     Junot Diaz' critically acclaimed first novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," has just been awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Diaz, a tenured professor at MIT, worked on his novel for eleven years before its publication in September, 2007. Since then it has received ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/professor-junot-pulitzer/1080/ The MIT Libraries have launched the fifth puzzle in a series of puzzles that can be solved using Libraries’ resources. The puzzles will be released over the course of the Spring 2008 semester, appearing in the Tech, on kiosks in Lobby 7, and elsewhere around campus. MIT students can view ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/libraries-puzzle-3/1077/ Come to the SHASS Open House, and meet members of the MIT Libraries community who provide support for SHASS. Subject specialists from the Dewey and Humanities Libraries will be on hand to tell you more about our online, and human, resources. And, our Bookmobile will make special appearance, with ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/faces-behind-books-shass/1074/ On Thursday, November 15th the MIT Humanities Library hosted Professor Irving Singer who spoke about his new book, Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher, just published by The MIT Press. A video of the event is now available on MIT World. In this lecture, Singer discusses how Bergman used philosophical ideas ... http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/professor-irving-singer/1071/