Facing a $300 million shortfall, MIT is tightening its budget by slashing the quietest corners of its Cambridge campus: the libraries. Three of MIT’s five physical libraries will be shuttered or ...

Harvard and MIT have opened large parts of their library collections to undergraduates at both schools in a new partnership announced yesterday. Students from the two universities can now apply online ...

In 1862, the MIT Libraries were established with a gift of seven leather-bound books. When classes were first held in 1865, the collection had only grown to 75 volumes, and a librarian would not be ...

Harvard and MIT libraries today announced the possibility of a long-term collaboration that will explore joint efforts to preserve digital materials, ease access between library catalogues, and build ...

The MIT libraries should focus on its four "pillars" -- community and relationships, discovery and use, stewardship and sustainability, and research and development -- to reimagine itself as an "open ...

KVA's renovation of Hayden Library will make the space significantly more flexible, transparent, and ADA compliant than it has been in its 69-year history. (Courtesy of MIT) While the ground floor of ...

The MIT Press has announced the launch of Direct to Open (D2O). A first-of-its-kind sustainable framework for open access monographs, D2O moves professional and scholarly books from a solely ...