Lament for the MIT Libraries Highlight

For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries, demonstrates a significant retreat from that commitment to truth and knowledge, to engaging students and faculty with voices, works and researches across time and the present. It’s shocking that the 1916 MIT Dome, designed by Architect William Welles Bosworth to hold “the finest engineering library in the world” [still quoted in display in the Building 10 corridor] is now empty of students, staff and closed to the library experience. The MIT Dome has become a shell empty of meaning. There is not a single book or journal in the Reading room under the dome!