Category: Preservation & conservation
Happy World Digital Preservation Day!
This World Digital Preservation Day, MIT Libraries is looking back over some of the progress we’ve made since launching our Comprehensive Digital Preservation Service...
MIT Libraries Receives Grant to Digitize Endangered Language Recordings
Kenneth L. Hale recordings considered an invaluable resource for language restoration work and linguistic research
The MIT Libraries has received a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) for a project to digitize...
Digitizing Haitian Newspaper Libète
MIT Libraries contributes to the digitization of Libète newspaper published in Kreyòl
Founded by Father Jean-Yves Urfié in 1990, Haiti’s weekly newspaper Libète aimed to fill a linguistic and cultural void as it was published in...
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...
What’s New
Spring 2022
Oral history project and exhibit trace the history of South Asian students at MIT Distinctive Collections will partner with Sana Aiyar, associate professor...
Spy mistress and scientist
Laura Bergemann '19 hones conservation skills in the Wunsch Lab
Ever since she heard about the painstaking, 21-year effort to conserve Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper when she was in the eighth grade,...