Library and research assistance

Please apply for a Harvard Library card and use BorrowDirect. The Harvard card gives you access to the physical facilities across campus — studying at the beautiful Law Library, using Harvard buses — and BorrowDirect lets you borrow a book from any library in the network (Princeton, Stanford, Chicago, and more), so there is no need to wait for a book in course reserves when you could just get a copy from another library. If you’re pressed for time, you can request pick-up online, where a lovely librarian will collect all the books you list and you can pick them all up at once at the library of your choosing.

If you use Zotero for citation and PDF management — which you should — your MIT email gives you unlimited cloud storage, with all its environmental implications. You should also avail yourself of the book acquisition request form: the libraries will buy virtually any book you suggest through the form that doesn’t already exist in the catalog. I would also highly recommend the extensive research support that the libraries offer. Professor T.L. Taylor has this fantastic guide that is specific to media studies.

Several readings on the calendar are hosted behind libproxy.mit.edu. You will need to be signed in with your MIT certificates or through Touchstone to reach them. If a link doesn’t work, try it again from an MIT network or let me know.