Category: Archives & MIT history

Newly Acquired Materials in Distinctive Collections: Summer 2023
The MIT Libraries Department of Distinctive Collections collects, preserves, and makes available the Libraries’ unique and rare materials. Our collections range across disciplines, time...
Distinctive Collections Request System downtime on August 10
Please be aware that the Distinctive Collections Request System will be unavailable from 8:00AM through 1:00PM EST on Thursday, August 10. During this outage,...

2023 Women@MIT Fellows Announced
Rachel Lane, Deborah Tsogbe, and Soala Ajienka will create interactive projects using archival materials from the Women@MIT collections.
Rachel Lane and the team of Deborah Tsogbe and Soala Ajienka have been named Women@MIT fellows for 2023 in the Department of Distinctive Collections...

Distinctive Collections Celebrates AAPI Month
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have played a vital role in shaping America as we know it, contributing to every facet of industry, including...

What’s New
Spring 2023
News from the Women@MIT Archival Initiative Launched in 2017, the initiative seeks to add the records of women faculty, staff, students, and alumnae to...

30 years of Laboratory for Computer Science tech reports and memos now available in DSpace@MIT
MIT Libraries has created two new collections in DSpace@MIT, MIT’s institutional repository, making the majority of the Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) technical reports...

Celebrating National Arab American Heritage Month
Explore local resources that shed light on the history of Arab Americans
In honor of National Arab American Heritage Month, MIT Libraries encourages you to dig into some local resources that shed light on the history...

Newly acquired materials in Distinctive Collections: Spring 2023
The MIT Libraries Department of Distinctive Collections collects, preserves, and makes available the Libraries’ unique and rare materials. Our collections range across disciplines, time...