Parent Institution
Site Type
Supervisor Name(s)
Thera Webb
Joe Carrano
Supervisor Title(s)
Women@MIT Project Archivist
Supervisor Email(s)
Department Address
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Building 14N-118 (160 Memorial Drive)
Cambridge, MA 02139
Cambridge, MA 02139
ADA Compliant
Yes
Parking
No
Transportation
Red Line to Kendall Sq. or MBTA Bus 1
Site Description
Distinctive Collections collects, preserves, and fosters the use of unique and rare materials such as tangible and digital archives, manuscripts, ephemera, artists’ books, and more. With these collections the Libraries seeks to cultivate an interest in the past, present, and future; the humanistic and the scientific; and the physical and the digital in order to inspire and enable research, learning, experimentation, and play for a diverse community of users.
Website URL
https://libraries.mit.edu/distinctive-collections/