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Finding books

To search for books at the MIT Libraries, use the "Search our collections" advanced search.

Print books will display the library/call number for their location and say if they are available. Check out print books with your MIT ID and find library hours here.

Online books will have a link under "online availability."

When you click on this link, you'll be authenticated via Touchstone and taken to the publishers website. From there, depending on the book, you can read online or download a pdf.

MIT Reads

MIT Reads is the campus-wide book program. This spring the book is Clap When You Land and there will be an author visit from Elizabeth Acevedo on April 21st. Find out more here.

Questions about book availability? Contact the EECS Librarian

Phoebe Ayers

Contact:

psayers@mit.edu
Room 10-500
617.253.4442

How can Phoebe help you?

Spring 2022 books

Click on the title link to be taken to the MIT Libraries catalog to see print availability and online links.

Clap When You Land (print edition) by Elizabeth Acevedo
Call Number: PZ7.1.A248 Cl 2020
ISBN: 9780062882769
Publication Date: 2020
In a novel-in-verse that brims with grief and love, National Book Award-winning and New York Times & bestselling author Elizabeth Acevedo writes about the devastation of loss, the difficulty of forgiveness, and the bittersweet bonds that shape our lives. Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people... In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by distance--and Papi's secrets--the two girls are forced to face a new reality in which their father is dead and their lives are forever altered. And then, when it seems like they've lost everything of their father, they learn of each other.
Lies My Teacher Told Me (print edition) by James W. Loewen
Call Number: Hayden E175.85.L64 2018
ISBN: 9781620973929
Publication Date: 2018
Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important - and successful - history books of our time. Having sold over two million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship and was heralded on the front page of the New York Times in the summer of 2006.
Lies My Teacher Told Me (online version) by James W. Loewen
ISBN: 9781620973929
Publication Date: 2018
The Privileged Poor (print & online) by Anthony Abraham Jack
Call Number: Hayden LC210.5.J33 2019
ISBN: 9780674976894
Publication Date: 2019-03-01
An NPR Favorite Book of the Year Winner of the Critics' Choice Book Award, American Educational Studies Association Winner of the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award Winner of the CEP-Mildred García Award for Exemplary Scholarship Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how--and why--disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges, and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive.
The Vanishing Half (print & online) by Brit Bennett
Call Number: Hayden PS3602.E66444 V36 2020
ISBN: 9780525536291
Publication Date: 2020
From The New York Times-bestselling author of The Mothers, a stunning new novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Many years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and her white husband knows nothing of her past. Still, even separated by so many miles and just as many lies, the fates of the twins remain intertwined. What will happen to the next generation, when their own daughters' storylines intersect? In print in Hayden library and available online (3 copies).

Other options to get the book

For audiobook editions, print copies and copies formatted for Kindle, try the local public library. You can also try Borrow Direct to borrow print books from other Ivies+ schools.

The Minuteman system includes the public library in Cambridge and many other surrounding towns.
- Anyone who lives or works in Massachusetts can sign up for a Minuteman card and have books delivered to any of the Minuteman branches. You can also sign up for an e-library card to get access to online materials (such as ebooks and digital audio books) without visiting a branch.
- Search the Minuteman catalog here and search the Minuteman Overdrive collection (ebooks & audiobooks) here.
- You can also download the Libby app onto your phone to listen to audiobooks and read ebooks and add yourself to the waitlist for ebooks and audiobooks.
The Boston Public Library is available to anyone who lives or works in Massachusetts.
- You can sign up for an e-card without visiting Boston by going here, or stop by any of the BPL branches to get a card.
- You can search the catalog here, or search the BPL Overdrive collection (audiobooks and ebooks) here.
- Note that if you use Libby, you can add in both your BPL and Minuteman library cards into the app.
You can also request print books from other universities be sent to MIT by using Borrow Direct.
- To borrow Borrow Direct books, go to the Worldcat catalog and search for your book.
- Click the blue "request from Borrow Direct" button. You'll be logged in via Touchstone, and then you can choose the library location at MIT that you would like the book delivered to.
- This is an option if the copy of the book at MIT is checked out, or for materials we don't own.