{"id":34157,"date":"2023-04-20T14:35:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T18:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/?p=34157"},"modified":"2023-04-20T14:35:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T18:35:21","slug":"newly-acquired-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/news\/newly-acquired-materials\/34157\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly acquired materials in Distinctive Collections: Spring 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34160\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34160\" class=\"wp-image-34160\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/04\/moorman-pei_web-300x201.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman in a red dress holds a microphone and leans over a stack of TVs encased in plexiglass; a crowd is behind her, a man is shooting video, and a young boy stands in front of her\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/04\/moorman-pei_web-300x201.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/04\/moorman-pei_web-768x515.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/04\/moorman-pei_web-624x419.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2023\/04\/moorman-pei_web.jpeg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-34160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlotte Moorman performing with Nam June Paik&#8217;s TV Cello at the 1982 Ars Electronica\/Sky Art Conference, Linz, 1982. Slides, Box: 145. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Visual Studies records, AC-0664. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Libraries. Department of Distinctive Collections.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The MIT Libraries Department of Distinctive Collections collects, preserves, and makes available the Libraries\u2019 unique and rare materials. Our collections range across disciplines, time periods, and formats and include faculty research and personal archives, Institute records, student and community life materials, Institute publications, the Aga Khan Documentation Center, and rare book collections on various topics of science, technology, engineering, architecture, and the humanities &#8211; just to name a few.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here are new acquisitions brought into the collections from January through March 2023. Some materials are accessible today, while others are being processed and cataloged and will be available soon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Available now<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/1356\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Visible Language Workshop records<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/1358\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gyorgy Kepes: Arts and the Environment and Vision and Value collection<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/1349\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Experimental Music Studio recordings<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/1345\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Center for Advanced Visual Studies records<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/1359\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Visual Arts Program records<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additions to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/1357\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Art, Culture and Technology Program at MIT records\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dspace.mit.edu\/handle\/1721.1\/7582\/discover?rpp=10&amp;etal=0&amp;group_by=none&amp;page=1&amp;filtertype_0=dateIssued&amp;filter_relational_operator_0=equals&amp;filter_0=%5B2023+TO+2023%5D\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">February 2023 MIT Theses<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rare Books:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1np2a75\/alma9935449410306761\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A tale of a tub by Ben Jonson (1640)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1np2a75\/alma9935449410106761\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The English grammar by Ben Jonson (1640)\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1np2a75\/alma9935449509306761\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The sad shepherd: or, A tale of Robin-Hood by Ben Jonson (1641)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/1np2a75\/alma9935449410406761\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The magnetic lady; or, Humors reconsil\u2019d by Ben Jonson (1640)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Coming soon<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wayne O\u2019Neil personal archives (professor of linguistics and former Head of the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">JoAnne Yates personal archives (Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and former Deputy Dean of Programs at Sloan)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">James Elliot personal archives (professor of planetary astronomy and physics who discovered the rings of Uranus in 1977)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/118\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel Technical Reports<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additions to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/1118\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Physical Science Study Committee records<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additions to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/1074\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Peter Eagleson personal archives<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MIT Mandolin Club photograph, 1898-1899<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additions to<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/1268\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Gerald Jay Sussman personal archives<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additions to the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/633\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Roman Jakobson papers<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Additions to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.mit.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/1110\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Collection on Student Life<\/span><\/a>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1921 notes on business management by Professor Erwin H. Schell<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1946 Field Day certificate<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Student protest posters related to the MIT Statement on the Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1919 Diary of Ram Prasad<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To see any of these collections or items (even the items coming soon), follow the instructions on our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/distinctive-collections\/visit-us\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or fill out<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mit-ddc.libanswers.com\/ask-ddc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> our contact form<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with any questions. Please note that some records may be closed for a set time frame due to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/distinctive-collections\/institute-records-access-statement\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Institute access restrictions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MIT Libraries Department of Distinctive Collections collects, preserves, and makes available the Libraries\u2019 unique and rare materials. Our collections range across disciplines, time periods, and formats and include faculty research and personal archives, Institute records, student and community life materials, Institute publications, the Aga Khan Documentation Center, and rare book collections on various topics of science, technology, engineering, architecture, and the humanities &#8211; just to name a few.\u00a0\u00a0 Here are new acquisitions brought into the collections from January through March 2023. 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