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International collaborations in digital preservation
Photo by: Randy Tennia of UWI Nancy McGovern and Kari Smith of the MIT Libraries recently presented a Digital Preservation Management (DPM) workshop at The University of the West Indies (UWI) St...
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The Libraries will host their first resident from the National Digital Stewardship Residency Program of Boston (NDSR-Boston). Tricia Patterson began her 9-month residency in September working on a...
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Featured special collection
Steam shovel work on the Panama Canal, 1908. Institute Archives & Special Collections Engineers, kings, and businessmen had dreamed since the sixteenth century of constructing a canal through the...
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From the Archives
A. Kircher, De Arte Magnetica Opus Tripartitum (Cologne, 1643), Institute Archives & Special Collections MIT’s global initiatives and worldwide influence are well documented. To delve deeper into...
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Wired: A world transformed by the telegraph
Western Union book of blanks, early 20th century. Institute Archives & Special Collections Until the mid-19th century, most messages could travel across long distances only as quickly as they could...
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Unboxing the Chomsky Archive
Photo by: Philip van Ootegem Two years after the MIT Libraries’ Institute Archives were chosen as the stewards of Noam Chomsky’s personal papers, over 260 boxes of the professor emeritus’ materials...
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Exhibit tour
Take a tour of the current exhibit in the Libraries’ Maihaugen Gallery with by Stephen Skuce, Program Manager for Rare Books, MIT Institute Archives and Special Collections. Location: 14N-130 Speaker:...
View ArticleConnect the clues!
Imagine that it’s the year 2025 and you’ve recently begun preserving your family history. While sorting through photo albums and books, you’ve discovered a USB drive belonging to a distant relative....
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Happy Birthday, MIT!
MIT was founded on April 10, 1861. While there are documents written earlier that led to MIT’s incorporation, its official charter was granted by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on April 10, 1861...
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Murphy recognized for service
At the annual spring meeting of the New England Archivists (NEA) on March 21, 2015 in Boston, Nora Murphy was awarded the NEA Distinguished Service Award. Murphy is the Archivist for Reference,...
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Nancy McGovern voted VP/President-elect of SAA
Nancy McGovern The Society of American Archivists (SAA) has elected Nancy McGovern, MIT Libraries’ Head of Curation and Preservation Services, as SAA Vice President/President-Elect. She begins a...
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From the Archives: Preserving Officer Sean Collier’s legacy
Photo by: Dominick Reuter In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, on April 18, 2013, MIT Police Officer Sean Collier was killed in the line of duty by the alleged bombers. Shortly thereafter a...
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Featured Special Collection: Howe, Manning & Almy papers
Undated watercolor by architect Eleanor Manning (Class of 1906) Drawing was considered an essential skill for late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century architects, and was part of the curriculum at...
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Staff Profile: Jessica Venlet
Jessica Venlet Jessica Venlet arrived at MIT in October 2014 to begin a two-year fellowship with the Libraries in the area of digital archives. She came from Michigan where she received her Master of...
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Wild things
Hand colored woodcut from “Icones animalium quadrupedum uiuiparorum et ouiparorum” by Conrad Gessner, 1553 Animals have always fascinated humans: for centuries we’ve taxonomized, anatomized, and...
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Mosques in the United States: A Tribute to Dr. Omar Khalidi
© Rachid Idir Aadnani A scholar and a librarian, Dr. Omar Khalidi (d. 2010) served as the Librarian for Islamic Architecture at MIT from 1983-2010. Over the years of working with the Aga Khan Program...
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MIT woman was 1 in 300
As Commencement 2015 approaches, we look back 100 years to the Class of 1915 and its lone woman graduate who made history at MIT. Mary Elsa Rice (née Plummer) was the only woman to graduate in a class...
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AKDC collaboration brings 1959 recordings of Moroccan music to Archnet
© Irene Hermann Between 1959 and 1962 the American author and composer, Paul Bowles, traveled Morocco to collect samples of the Moroccan soundscape. Half a century later, the Aga Khan Documentation...
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All fours
Our latest exhibit, Quadrupedia: The Animal Kingdom Considered, has just opened in the Maihaugen Gallery (14N-130). Come take a look at how our four-footed friends – and a few foes – are represented in...
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Welcome Émilie, Madame Newton
The MIT Libraries now have a rare book acquisitions fund, and our initial purchase is a knockout. There is only one complete French translation of Newton’s Principia Mathematica, and it was produced by...
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