Welcome to the Bibliotechs home page.

The Bibliotechs are the MIT Library Staff Association's softball team, composed of library employees, their families, and friends. They have been playing in the MIT Community Summer Softball League for 30 years.

Bibliotechs come from all walks of life: among the members of past teams have been a film-maker, a taxi-driver, a Dutch volleyball champion, a Pushcart Poetry prizewinner, a former member of the seminal rock group The Velvet Underground and the legendary '60s Boston garage band The Lost, and a past president of the New England Herpetological Society. It's all too true!

Bibliotechs have gone on to great success after MIT, not only as librarians and library administrators, but also in the fields of law, accountancy, veterinary medicine, teaching, and enigmatic behavior.

The 1995 Bibliotechs were undefeated and won the championship of the Kentucky Fried League's Extra-Krispy Division. Credo quia absurdum! They won championships again in 1997, their 20th Anniversary year, and also in 1998. Then, in 1999, they moved up to the Serious Slow Pitch League and made the playoffs, and, in 2000, went all the way to the semi-final round! The 2001 and 2002 teams also went to the playoffs, and the 2003 team advanced to the rarefied environment of the Championship Game! The 2004 team fell just short of the playoffs, but they returned to the playoff level in 2005 and 2006. In 2007, the Bibs underwent a transformative rebuilding season, and in 2008, they bounced back to the playoff level, making it to the semi-finals.

Here is the schedule for 2009. There's no stopping us now!

The Bibliotechs spring from an ancient bardic and musical tradition which has resulted in a profusion of Bibliotech anthems of a celebratory, exhortative, or ceremonial nature.

You may want to consult this field map if you are going to a game.

Don't miss Eric Celeste's critically acclaimed photo-documentary A Game in the Life of Bibliotechs

Just so!

Updated on 090505