As a student of Media in Cultural Context (21L.715) this past fall, I had the opportunity to visit the MIT Special... (more)
Idea Bank
The idea bank is a public forum for sharing ideas and starting a conversation about the future of libraries. Below you can browse the ideas that have been submitted, but the bank is now closed. View the preliminary report
31 - 40 of 70 Ideas
Taking a literature class (21L.715) that heavily involved use of MIT’s libraries, specifically the Special... (more)
After spending hours in Special Collections, my primary criticism is that I would have liked hours to have been more... (more)
To increase community engagement with the Libraries, it's important that the spaces in which the Libraries are... (more)
Note: I wrote this for one of my classes, so please excuse the informality of it.
My main problem with the... (more)
Recently there’s been a lot of talk about digitizing media to make it more accessible and to preserve it. Both those... (more)
I have recently moved from being a user of the Cornell Library system to the MIT library system, and have noted a... (more)
It would be great to have section of the library dedicated to history of science, technology, medicine, STS,... (more)
R. Parr and W. Yang's classical book on DFT, "Density functional theory of atoms and molecules" is... (more)
Zines are often produced by members of marginalized communities and in order to best serve our community and... (more)
Note: maybe this could be supported by a grant for libraries as a community anchor?...
I love the idea of items being lent out via the library. Anything that has to do with...
Hi Emily - Yes! Coffee! with a lid! Dewey Library does this on a small scale, where...
Thanks for the suggestion, Hayk. Just a heads up that the MIT Libraries currently...
My wife, another MIT Grad has the same sensitivity to high frequency sound. We should...