[Editors] Libraries IAP classes

[Heather M Denny]

Dear Editors,

The Libraries are offering several IAP classes that may be of interest to MIT communicators. The classes below on the Archives and Apps for Academics were mentioned in a recent Editor's club meeting. For a complete list of all Libraries IAP activities see: http://student.mit.edu/iap/nslib.html

TODAY 1/9, 4-5pm Archives 101<http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-b193.html>
The Institute Archives and Special Collections – along with all other archives – can be a bit of a mystery. What is in an archives? Can anyone use it? How does one find things? How come it’s not just all on-line, anyway… Please join us to learn more.

Tuesday, 1/17, 11am-12pm Arts and Culture Multimedia in the MIT Libraries<http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-b131.html>
Want to find out how to obtain over one million tracks of streaming audio ranging from classical to jazz, popular, and contemporary world music? How about over 150,000 online music scores? Streaming video of poets reading from their work? Images so sharp you can see the shadow beneath the Mona Lisa's smile? Or panoramic views of architectural sites from around the world?

Thursday 1/19, 11am-12:15pm Apps for Academics: Mobile Web Sites & Apps for Academic Life<http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-a592.html>
In this whirlwind show & tell, we will recommend the best mobile web sites and apps (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, or Android) for use in your academic life. We'll demo apps for productivity, library research, note-taking, e-reading, PDF-reading & annotating, sketching, and more. Some apps we'll demo include Evernote, Instapaper, Dropbox, GoodReader, Papers, Wolfram Alpha, PLoS, ACS Mobile, and WorldCat Mobile.

Friday, 1/20, 11am-12:30pm Dear Diary–Before There Were Blogs<http://student.mit.edu/searchiap/iap-b146.html>
Have you ever wanted to take a peek inside a day in the life of an MIT student or faculty member? Come explore some diaries from the Institute Archives & Special Collections and read accounts of…

-founder William Barton Rogers’s wedding trip
-a world cruise
-trekking across Texas in a covered wagon
-a future MIT president’s teenage adventures as a ship’s radio operator
-the founding of the United Nations
-working with radar during World War Two
-traveling in India, Australia, Germany, Mali, Burkina Faso, and the Azores
-and more!


Heather Denny
Communications Officer
MIT Libraries
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Building 14S-316
617.253.5686
hdenny at mit.edu<mailto:hdenny at mit.edu>



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