Category: Archives & MIT history
MIT Receives Personal Papers of Artist Otto Piene
The personal papers of the late Otto Piene, a leading figure in kinetic and technology-based art, have been donated to MIT’s Institute Archives, part...
Remembering Elda Chisholm
Elda Digiuni Chisholm (1919-2019) was offered a job at the MIT Libraries the very day she applied in 1945. “Other women were afraid to...
Well-behaved women should make history: A review of MIT class records between 1888 and 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.”...
Celebrate Public Domain Day 2020
Libraries digitizing 10 books from 1924 from our collections
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...
What’s New
Fall 2019
Students Create Archival History of Computing at MIT Launched in June, a new website, Archival History of Computing at MIT, 1950-62, was created by...
Make your old media new again with a digital media transfer kit
MIT Libraries Distinctive Collections provides kits for transferring legacy media
The MIT Libraries Department of Distinctive Collections is excited to announce a new offering of old technology! Distinctive Collections now makes available digital media...
Students create archival history of computing at MIT
Undergraduates work with Digital Humanities at MIT and MIT Libraries' Distinctive Collections to digitize and contextualize archives
With the announcement of the Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing in fall 2018, MIT began reshaping itself to address the opportunities and challenges presented by...
Distinctive Collections opens web archives to the public
Archived MIT-produced and affiliated webpages ensure valuable information about the Institute remains accessible
The Department of Distinctive Collections is pleased to announce that our web archives collections are now open to the public. These web archives consist...
Introducing “Distinctive Collections”
New name for Institute Archives and Special Collections reflects the breadth and ambitions of the department
The Institute Archives and Special Collections has been renamed Distinctive Collections, the MIT Libraries announced today. This new name better captures the breadth of...