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 ...

The tech company and the tech university unveil a system for electronically archiving books, lecture notes and data that could serve as a model for academic libraries. Michael Kanellos is editor at ...

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 ...