Category: Archives & MIT history
Collecting the Now
Distinctive Collections launches a project documenting COVID-19 at MIT
When COVID-19 disrupted life at MIT, library staff naturally thought to look to the archives for similar events in Institute history,...
What’s New
Fall 2020
MIT Receives Grant from The Mellon Foundation to Support Postdoctoral Research Program MIT has received a grant of $750,000 from...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...