Introducing “Distinctive Collections”
A new name for the Institute Archives and Special Collections reflects the breadth and ambitions of the department.
Spotlights
- Libraries partner with SHASS for MIT & Slavery class
- Libraries launch Women in Science and Engineering@MIT Archival Initiative
- Explore an online preview of the Herb Pomeroy Jazz Collection
Get expert help
- Ask Distinctive Collections
- Research help
- Conducting research in the Archives
- Reference services to the MIT community
- Genealogical research in the Institute Archives
- Supplemental sources of information about MIT
- Alternate locations of MIT publications
- Institute records access policy
- Permission to publish
- Reproduction policies
- Managing your records
Get to know us
Quick links
- Online finding aids
- Specifications for thesis preparation
- MIT Thesis FAQ
- MIT faculty minutes (MIT only)
Explore our collections
- About the collections
- Archives collections: Institute records
- Manuscript collections: Faculty papers, etc.
- MIT publications
- MIT theses
- Rare books
- Oral histories
- Online finding aids
- Architecture sources
- Physics sources
- Presidential papers
- List of researchers’ writings and exhibits