Category: Preservation & conservation
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,...
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...
Libraries Host Grand Challenges Summit
Experts convene at MIT to set research agenda
Forty-five experts from across disciplines gathered at MIT March 19–23 for a week of workshops focused on the most vital issues in information science...
MIT Libraries host Grand Challenges Summit
Experts in information science and scholarly communication convene at MIT to set research agenda.
This story was posted on MIT News on March 30, 2018. Forty-five experts from across disciplines gathered at MIT March 19-23 for a week...
Safety Nets: Rescue and Revival for Endangered Born-Digital Records
A brown bag with Jefferson Bailey
The web is now firmly established as the primary communication and publication platform for sharing and accessing social and cultural materials. This networked world...
Book cradles that don’t go to the grave
Wunsch Conversation Lab invents reusable mounts for library exhibits
Staff in the MIT Libraries’ Wunsch Conservation Laboratory have been working to design a new kind of structure to display books and other objects exhibited...