Category: Preservation & conservation

MIT Libraries Receives Grant to Digitize Endangered Language Recordings

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...

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Digitizing Haitian Newspaper Libète

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...

 Bibliotech
Emilie Songolo Leads Distinctive Collections

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...

 Bibliotech
What’s New

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...

 Bibliotech
Spy mistress and scientist

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,...

Art & architecture & planning
Introducing “Distinctive Collections”

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...

Archives & MIT history
Libraries Host Grand Challenges Summit

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...

 Bibliotech
MIT Libraries host Grand Challenges Summit

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...

Scholarly communication