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After an extensive renovation project, the Barker Library reading room has reopened to reveal the grandeur of the restored oculus atop the Great Dome, and the beauty of the rotunda’s original architecture.
Know you want to make/create a certain type of device but aren't sure what companies also make/create that device? This video shows you how to use the patent literature to figure out what companies do what you want to do. Then investigate those companies ...
This video will show you how you can use a company database, like Hoover's, to generate a list of competitors for a company. You can use this competitor list to generate a pool of companies to apply to, or to learn more about the company you want to apply to. If ...
This video shows how you can use a company database, like Hoover's, to create a list of companies in a certain geographical area, by an industry code, or other criteria. If you have questions or comments about the MIT Libraries, Ask Us!. ...
The Lewis Music Library's Music at MIT Oral History Project was established in 1999 to document the vibrant history of music at MIT.
PhonCD M148 piamu a v.1 Edward MacDowell Piano Music vol. 1 James Barbagallo, piano
Emmanuel Music Craig Smith, music director Recorded in concert at Emmanuel Church, Boston, Mass. Recorded by Thomas Stephenson, Emmanuel Audio Recording
This tutorial demonstrates how to track who has cited an article using the database Web of Science. If you have questions or comments about the MIT Libraries, Ask Us!
Learn the basics for searching Web of Science, an article database covering a broad range of subjects. If you have questions or comments, please Ask Us!
This video shows how to search two engineering and science literature databases: Compendex and Inspec. Compendex covers literature in all aspects of engineering, while Inspec focuses on electronics, computing, control, robotics, and physics literature. Both databases ...
This tutorial demonstrates how to use Barton, the MIT Libraries catalog, to find journals that MIT subscribes to in print or electronically. If you have questions or comments about the MIT Libraries, Ask Us!
John Unsworth discusses the recent formation of large-scale, collaborative digital libraries and the challenges and opportunities they pose for researchers seeking to use and study their collections. He describes the various challenges facing the new kinds of ...
Paul N. Courant discusses the recent formation of large-scale, collaborative digital libraries and the challenges and opportunities they pose for researchers seeking to use and study their collections. He explains the interconnected genesis of the Google Project, the ...
With Paul N. Courant & John Unsworth. Recorded on 5/25/12 at the MIT Faculty Club.
A documentary originally produced by the MIT Glass Lab and edited for a 2012 MIT Libraries' exhibition on Glass at MIT.
In 2008, the Charles J. Connick Stained Glass Foundation generously donated its collection to the MIT Libraries.
This video demonstrates how to access a sampling of company-level environmental, social, and governance data using ThomsonReuters' Datastream.
Part of the MIT Libraries video tutorial series. This video demonstrates how to create a new shapefile in ArcMap.
Part of the MIT Libraries video tutorial series. This video demonstrates how to calculate the area of polygons in ArcMap.
Part of the MIT Libraries video tutorial series. This video demonstrates how to create buffers of a constant distance around features in ArcMap.
