Research guides & expert librarians

We have smart people who know how to find the best information. Use their guides or contact them.

Topic guide	Expert librarian
Aeronautics & astronautics	Barbara Williams
Anthropology & archaeology	Georgiana McReynolds
APIs for scholarly resources	Katie Zimmerman
Architectural design	Anna Boutin
Architecture & art	Anna Boutin
Art & Architecture of the Islamic world	[email protected]
ASME papers & publications	Christine Sherratt
Astronomy & astrophysics	Michael Noga
Atmospheric sciences	Christine Sherratt
Biography	Ask Us
Bioinformatics	Courtney Crummett
Biological data & atlases	Courtney Crummett
Biological engineering	Howard Silver
Biology & biomedicine	Courtney Crummett
Biotechnology & pharmaceutical industry information	Georgiana McReynolds
Bioscience protocols & methods	Howard Silver
Building technology	Anna Boutin Alena McNamara
Business resources	Shikha Sharma
Census & demographic data	Jennie Murack
Chemical engineering	Erja Kajosalo
Chemical prices	Shikha Sharma
Chemistry	Erja Kajosalo
Civil engineering	Anne Graham
Classical studies	Mark Szarko
Companies	Shikha Sharma
Computation in architecture	Anna Boutin
Computer science	Phoebe Ayers
Congressional publications	Jennifer Greenleaf
Copyright	Ellen Finnie
Corporate reports	Shikha Sharma
Country data & analysis	Nicholas Albaugh
Data	Ask Us
Data management	[email protected]
Data services (social sciences)	[email protected]
Designing & making stuff	Ask Us
Digital humanities	Ece Turnator
Disruptive technologies	Shikha Sharma
Earth sciences	Michael Noga
Economics	Nicholas Albaugh
Education	[email protected]
Electrical engineering	Phoebe Ayers
Energy	Christine Sherratt
Environment	Anne Graham Chris Sherratt
Environmental engineering	Anne Graham
Ethnic studies	Michelle Baildon
Film studies	Sofia Leung
Finance	Shikha Sharma
General reference	Ask Us
GIS (Geographic Information Systems)	[email protected]
Government information	Jennifer Greenleaf
Gravitational waves	Katharine Dunn
Health Care Management	Shikha Sharma
History	Ece Turnator
Housing	Anna Boutin Alena McNamara
Images, finding	Anna Boutin
Images, using – copyright & fair use	Ellen Finnie
Industries	Shikha Sharma
Innovation & Entrepreneurship	Nicholas Albaugh
Islamic art & architecture	[email protected]
Labor & industrial relations	Shikha Sharma
Languages and global studies	Mark Szarko
Law	[email protected]
Library & information science	Deborah Lenares
Linguistics	Ece Turnator
Literature	Mark Szarko
Maps	[email protected]
Market research	Shikha Sharma
Marketing	Shikha Sharma
Materials science & engineering	Erja Kajosalo
Mathematics	Michael Noga
Mechanical engineering	Christine Sherratt
Media studies	Sofia Leung
Medicine	Courtney Crummett
MIT buildings	Anna Boutin
MIT history	Nora Murphy
MIT in popular culture	Michelle Baildon
MIT manuscript collections	[email protected]
MIT official records	[email protected]
MIT rare books	[email protected]
Music	Peter Munstedt
Neuroscience & cognitive science	Courtney Crummett
News, newspapers, & current events	Ask Us
Newspapers: foreign language	Mark Szarko
Newspapers: historical	Michelle Baildon
Nuclear engineering	Christine Sherratt
Ocean engineering & naval architecture	Christine Sherratt
Oceanography	Christine Sherratt
Patents	Anne Graham Nicholas Albaugh Courtney Crummett
Philosophy	Mark Szarko
Physics	Barbara Williams
Planetary sciences	Michael Noga
Political science	Jennifer Greenleaf
Properties of materials & chemicals	Erja Kajosalo
Psychology	Courtney Crummett
Publishing help	Ellen Finnie
Real estate	Anna Boutin Alena McNamara
Regional planning & development	Anna Boutin Alena McNamara
SAE technical papers	Christine Sherratt
Science, technology & society (STS)	Michelle Baildon
Social science data services	[email protected]
Social sciences (general) See also: Quick Answers: Social Sciences & Management	[email protected]
Sociology	[email protected]
Spectra resources	Erja Kajosalo
Standards	Phoebe Ayers
Statistical software	Jennie Murack
Sustainable business	Shikha Sharma
Technical reports	Christine Sherratt
Theater arts	Mark Szarko
Theses, finding	Ask Us
Theses, MIT – preparing, copyright & more	[email protected]
Trade statistics	Nicholas Albaugh
Transportation	Anna Boutin Anne Graham Alena McNamara
Urban studies & planning	Anna Boutin Alena McNamara
Virtual Reference Collection	Ask Us
Women’s & gender studies	Jennifer Greenleaf
Working Papers in Dewey Library	Nicholas Albaugh