Have an idea for an exhibit using library collections? We are now accepting proposals for exhibits in the Maihaugen Gallery (14N-130) and the Hayden Library Loft (14S-100). Any MIT faculty, student, or staff member can submit a proposal. Past exhibits have explored the Institute’s history with South Asia and China, MIT women in biology and chemistry, collections related to the history of flight and other innovations, and more. The Maihaugen Gallery offers a secure, museum-grade exhibition space to highlight historical documents, rare books, maps, artwork, photographs, and other materials from ..read more

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This World Digital Preservation Day, MIT Libraries is looking back over some of the progress we’ve made since launching our Comprehensive Digital Preservation Service in 2020. One big update was adding new preservation storage locations for preserving digitized content in addition to our born digital collections.  The work of our imaging, digital archiving, and digital preservation teams overlapped, especially when it came to another workflow improvement: transcribing and captioning our digitized audio and video content. We started with a pilot program to establish the transcription/capti ..read more

The Open Access Collection of DSpace@MIT includes scholarly articles by MIT-affiliated authors made available through open access policies at MIT or publisher agreements. Each month we highlight the month’s download numbers and a few of the most-downloaded articles in the collection, and we feature stats and comments from a particular country. See your own download statistics or those of a particular MIT department, lab, or center. Top downloaded articles for October: Large-Scale Rapid Liquid Printing, Hajash, Kathleen et al. The Role of Housing and Mortgage Marke ..read more

The third annual MIT Prize for Open Data, which included a $2,500 cash prize, was recently awarded to 10 individual and group research projects. Presented jointly by the School of Science and the MIT Libraries, the prize highlights the value of open data — research data that is openly accessible and reusable — at the Institute. The prize winners and 9 honorable mention recipients were honored at the Open Data @ MIT event held Oct. 22 at Hayden Library. The prize program was launched in 2022, spearheaded by Chris Bourg, director of MIT Libraries, and Rebecca Saxe, associate dean of ..read more

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In a recent report from the Pew Research Center, nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults polled (73%) say they’ve seen inaccurate news coverage about the 2024 election and half (52%) find it difficult to determine the accuracy of the news they’re reading. With a U.S. presidential election in full swing, conspiracy theories swirling around Hurricane Milton, and the flu season just around the corner, the spread of false information seems to be everywhere. Here at the Library, we’ve created some resources to help address the topics of mis- and disinformation. Disinformation Research Guide: Links to ..read more

Hayden Library is currently hosting a display of poetry anthologies by African American writers. The collection was curated by Professor Joshua Bennett in MIT’s Literature Section. The collection invites the reader to think about archiving as a cultural practice, and how art like poetry is preserved for future generations (as well as the people who make that work possible: poets, editors, publishers, librarians, and archivists). Professor Bennett is himself the co-editor of an anthology in the display, Minor Notes. The anthology is part of a series intended to bring lesser-known African Americ ..read more

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