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Make your old media new again with a digital media transfer kit
The MIT Libraries Department of Distinctive Collections is excited to announce a new offering of old technology! Distinctive Collections now makes available digital media transfer kits for use in their...
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Jay Forrester and Robert Everett watch as Stephen Dodd and Ramona D. Ferenz operate Whirlwind, MIT’s first digital computer, 1950. Photo: MIT Museum Students Create Archival History of Computing at MIT...
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Celebrate Public Domain Day 2020
Selected images from digitized books from MIT Libraries You may know January 1 as New Year’s Day, but it is also the day that new works shed their copyright constraints and become available for free...
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Well-behaved women should make history: A review of MIT class records between...
The women of the MIT class of 1893 “The questions asked in your circular letter are such as to discourage those who cannot name positions of trust, business enterprises or recent publications.” – Mrs....
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Remembering Elda Chisholm
Elda and John Chisholm’s wedding announcement featured a picture of the couple in front of MIT’s Great Dome. Elda Digiuni Chisholm (1919-2019) was offered a job at the MIT Libraries the very day she...
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MIT Receives Personal Papers of Artist Otto Piene
“Centerbeam” on the National Mall, by artists of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT; Washington, DC, summer 1978. Photo: Calvin Campbell. The personal papers of the late Otto Piene, a leading...
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MIT Receives Grant from The Mellon Foundation to Support Postdoctoral Research Program MIT has received a grant of $750,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a postdoctoral research...
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Collecting the Now
When COVID-19 disrupted life at MIT, library staff naturally thought to look to the archives for similar events in Institute history, such as the 1918-19 flu pandemic. While they found surprisingly...
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MIT COVID-19 documentation project material now online
Jessica TranVo, “Wish You Were Here,” digital collage, created between March 2020 and March 2021. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The...
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authors@mit series returns
The MIT Press, the MIT Press Bookstore, and the MIT Libraries are delighted to announce the restart of the authors@mit series. authors@mit presents talks by authors of new MIT Press publications,...
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Emilie Songolo named head of Distinctive Collections
Emilie Songolo has been named head of the Department of Distinctive Collections (DDC). Reporting to the Associate Director for Collections, the head will work across the Libraries to transform the use...
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Oral history project and exhibit trace the history of South Asian students at MIT Distinctive Collections will partner with Sana Aiyar, associate professor of history, Ranu Boppana ‘87, MIT South...
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Emilie Songolo Leads Distinctive Collections
Emilie Songolo joined the MIT Libraries in July as head of the Department of Distinctive Collections (DDC). In this role, Songolo will work across the Libraries to transform the use of MIT’s archival...
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History Lab
This story appeared in MIT News on April 19, 2022. Researching history in the MIT archives is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, according to junior Jupneet Singh. “You get a name from here, a...
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