Just 15 years ago Aaron Swartz died as a result of MIT's overzealous regard for the sanctity of their libraries.
He'd be turning 40 this year.
Graham Lampa
MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.
Carlos Noreña
“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries.
For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..."
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