Stories from the steel mills: A model for sharing workers’ histories
MIT anthropologist Chris Walley developed a project for people in Southeast Chicago to tell their histories — an approach any community can adopt.
The mystery of the Chinese tea chest label
MIT historian Tristan Brown uncovers the true origins of an artifact once thought to be a relic of the Boston Tea Party.
MIT launches new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program
The program will invite students to investigate new vistas at the intersection of music, computing, and technology.
MIT Press’s Direct to Open opens access to full list of 2024 monographs
Nine open-access books cross 10,000 reads threshold, bringing total for Direct to Open titles to almost 425,000.
MIT Press’s Direct to Open (D2O) opens access to 82 new books in 2023
With support from 322 libraries — a 33 percent increase in participation over its first year — the D2O publishing model will include over 160 scholarly monographs and edited collections by the end of 2023.
Poetechnics: A podcast at the intersection of poetic and technical knowledge
Hosted by MIT Literature Lecturer Michael Lutz, early episodes feature guests Malka Older, Wyn Kelley, and more.
MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication takes aim at the destructive nature of social media
An ambitious cross-disciplinary effort is launched to build healthier social networks.
MIT Press announces new initiative to increase the reach of academic scholarship
Shift+OPEN will flip existing subscription-based journals to a diamond open access publishing model.
A whole new world of learning via MIT OpenCourseWare videos
“I get the chance to not only watch the future happen, but I can actually be a part of it and create it,” says Ugandan entrepreneur Emmanuel Kasigazi.
“Drawing Together” is awarded Norman B. Leventhal City Prize
Winning project supports collaboration between public housing residents in New York City and a local nonprofit offering training for work in the digital economy.
Christopher Capozzola named senior associate dean for open learning
Distinguished professor and public history advocate will oversee open education offerings and campus-focused services.
MIT Press opens full list of 2022 monographs via Direct to Open
Eighty scholarly monographs and edited collections partially funded by libraries participating in MIT Press’s Direct to Open model will publish openly this year.
MIT Libraries staff honored with 2022 Infinite Mile Awards
Seventeen staffers lauded for providing outstanding service, supporting their colleagues, and exemplifying the Libraries’ values.
The sound of a sunset
The Digital Humanities Lab unveils its Sonification Toolkit, which enables conversion of almost anything — from data to drawings — into sound.
MIT Libraries digitizes materials from Mary Rowe
Papers from MIT’s former ombudsperson provide an important resource on the beginning of the organizational ombuds profession.