Piggy Bank: a Firefox extension from the MIT Libraries Digital Library...
Piggy Bank is an extension to the Firefox Web browser that turns it into a “Semantic Web browserâ€, letting you make use of existing information on the Web in more useful and flexible ways. For...
View ArticleMacKenzie Smith interviewed about Digital Libraries Research Projects
The Educause web site has made available an audio file (MP3) of an interview with MacKenzie Smith (Associate Director for Technology) about topics such as the Science Commons, governance of DSpace, the...
View ArticleDSpace and educational technology at MIT
DSpace is featured on a new web site devoted to educational technology innovations at MIT. The Educational Transformation through Technology at MIT site details the commitment, strategy and impact of...
View ArticleMIT awarded $1.5 million for research on new search technologies for digital...
MIT recently received a $1,500,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the next phase of a project that promises to create new search technologies for digital libraries. The project, called...
View ArticleNew software from MIT’s Project Simile for creating rich visualizations on...
Exhibit is a lightweight structured data publishing framework that lets you create web pages with support for sorting, filtering, and rich visualizations by writing only HTML and optionally some CSS...
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FACADE project aims to “future-proof” digital architectural files
Photo of MIT’s Stata Center by Andy Ryan A $724,415 grant from The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has been awarded to the MIT Libraries to address the challenge of preserving digital...
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Hit the open road with Open Access
What’s the big deal about open access anyway? If I’m writing an article, what rights should I keep? Where can I find out more? Check out http://libraries.mit.edu/open-access to find out what’s...
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JulyAP Workshop: Copyright and Scholarly Publication: Retaining Rights &...
WHERE: 14N-132 (Digital Instruction Resource Center – DIRC) WHEN: Friday, July 13, noon – 1pm Can you use and re-use your own work for future writing and teaching? Or is it locked tight behind a...
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JulyAP Workshop: Patent Searching Fundamentals, Friday, July 20, noon – 1 at...
WHERE: 14N-132 (Digital Instruction Resource Center – DIRC) WHEN: Friday, July 20, noon – 1pm While you won’t come out of this session qualified to be a patent attorney, you will be able to...
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HP and MIT Create Non-Profit Organization to Support Growing Community of...
Today HP and the MIT Libraries announced the formation of the DSpace Foundation, a non-profit organization that will provide support to the growing community of organizations that use DSpace, an open...
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Try the MIT Course Catalogue Pickr
Want an efficient and informative way to select and organize your classes for the upcoming semester? The Course Pickr is is an interactive tool designed to help students organize their class schedules....
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ACM and ISI Web of Knowledge have new features!
ACM: ACM has introduced Author Profile pages with citation and usage statistics to the Digital Library. The new features provide a snapshot of an individual author’s contributions to computing, and a...
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DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons Form Working Collaboration
Today two of the largest providers of open source software for managing and providing access to digital content, the DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons, announced plans to combine strengths to work...
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New Faculty Book Delivery Pilot Project
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...
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Fedora Commons and DSpace Foundation Join Together to Create DuraSpace...
The DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons, two of the largest providers of open source software for managing and providing access to digital content, have announced today that they will join their...
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Join us for a discussion about libraries in the digital age Wed., 11/3
Date: Wednesday, November 03 2010, 6:30pm - 8:30pm Location: Killian Hall MIT Room 14W-111 Registration: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/register-login.vm?eventID=48142&groupID=146 Physical/Virtual:...
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Harvard and MIT Libraries Explore Far-Reaching Alliance
Hayden Library, MIT Widener Library, Harvard University New agreement reflects physical proximity, cross-registration, joint programs, and research affinities The Provosts of Harvard University and...
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Data Visualization Tool Developed at MIT Gets Library of Congress Support
MIT Libraries receive grant for work on “Exhibit 3.0” software Exhibit has been used by Data.gov to help demonstrate new ways of visualizing government data. A $650,000 grant from the United States...
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Digital library partnership gives MIT access to additional online resources
The MIT Libraries have recently joined HathiTrust, a partnership of over fifty academic libraries that share the ambitious goal of building a comprehensive digital library of their shared collections....
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DSpace@MIT in the MIT Faculty Newsletter
DSpace@MIT is featured in the latest issue of the MIT Faculty Newsletter. Director of Libraries, Ann Wolpert, shares the latest facts and figures about MIT’s growing digital repository. Did you know...
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It’s a wrap!
In this image, a Libraries staff member works with a local moving company to prepare a truck of journals for shipment to the Northeast Regional Scanning Center at the Boston Public Library. The...
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Libraries hire new Associate Director for Technology
Director of Libraries, Ann Wolpert, recently announced the appointment of Tito Sierra to the position of Associate Director for Technology in the MIT Libraries. In this senior position, Sierra will...
View ArticlePresentation on Research Data Management Services at Johns Hopkins
Please join us for a presentation by Sayeed Choudhury on the development of research data management services provided to the Johns Hopkins University research community by the Sheridan Libraries...
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Altman joins MIT Libraries as Director of Research
Director of Libraries, Ann Wolpert, recently announced the appointment of Dr. Micah Altman to the position of Director of Research, Head/Scientist, Program for Information Science in the MIT Libraries....
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Sierra named to Digital Library Federation Advisory Committee
Tito Sierra (photo by L.Barry Hetherington) Tito Sierra, MIT Libraries’ Associate Director for Technology, has been appointed to the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Advisory Committee for the Council...
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International collaborations in digital preservation
Image courtesy of Educopia Institute The MIT Libraries are involved in collaborations that look at the broad range of digital content that universities and other organizations produce, and at ways to...
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MIT Libraries’ research contributes to award-winning redistricting software,...
A map in DistrictBuilder As Americans head to the polls, few will give much thought to how their voting district was created, and almost none will have had any direct input in defining its boundaries....
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Patsy Baudoin and Sands Fish selected for inaugural fellowship program at MIT...
Photo by Kurt Fendt Kurt Fendt, Director of HyperStudio, recently announced the nomination of eight fellows to participate in the first year of HyperStudio’s new fellowship program, including two...
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National Digital Stewardship Alliance releases inaugural agenda for digital...
As members of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA), a consortium of over 145 leading government, academic, and private sector organizations committed to long term preservation of digital...
View ArticleExploring tools for digital archives
Curious about how the MIT Libraries are working to archive and preserve the digital record and primary sources for the Institute? Check out Digital Archivist Kari Smith’s recent blog post, which...
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