{"id":175,"date":"2019-08-19T16:52:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T16:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/distinctive-collections\/?page_id=175"},"modified":"2019-08-19T16:52:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T16:52:37","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/distinctive-collections\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_591\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-591\" class=\"wp-image-591 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/09\/rare-book-1-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"Rare book from the Vail Collection\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/09\/rare-book-1-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/09\/rare-book-1-768x635.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/09\/rare-book-1-624x516.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2019\/09\/rare-book-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-591\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rare book from the Vail Collection. Distinctive Collections, MIT Libraries.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Distinctive Collections collects, preserves, and fosters the use of unique and rare materials such as tangible and digital archives, manuscripts, ephemera, artists\u2019 books, and more. With these collections the Libraries seeks to cultivate an interest in the past, present, and future; the humanistic and the scientific; and the physical and the digital in order to inspire and enable research, learning, experimentation, and play for a diverse community of users.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.mit.edu\/directory\/contact-distinctive-collections\">Our staff<\/a> has a wide array of experiences and expertise.<\/li>\n<li>Explore our <a href=\"\/distinctive-collections\/projects-and-initiatives\/\">Projects &amp; Initiatives<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/distinctive-collections\/about-us\/collection-development-policy\/\">Collection Development Policy Statement<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Distinctive Collections collects, preserves, and fosters the use of unique and rare materials such as tangible and digital archives, manuscripts, ephemera, artists\u2019 books, and more. With these collections the Libraries seeks to cultivate an interest in the past, present, and future; the humanistic and the scientific; and the physical and the digital in order to inspire and enable research, learning, experimentation, and play for a diverse community of users. Our staff has a wide array of experiences and expertise. Explore our Projects &amp; Initiatives Read our Collection Development Policy Statement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-175","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/distinctive-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/distinctive-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/distinctive-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/distinctive-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/distinctive-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/distinctive-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/distinctive-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/175\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/distinctive-collections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}