Join us for an MIT Museum-guided tour. We will visit three exhibitions, AI: Mind the Gap, Monsters of the Deep, and Essential MIT, which showcase the Libraries' collections on display. We will also visit one exhibition, MIT Collects: Technology and the Dream, where Libraries' staff collaborated to conserve and display an MIT artifact, Robert Robertson Taylor's Diploma. This event is part of our ALA Preservation Week Celebration at MIT.

The phrase "Preserve Knowledge" found in the Institute and Libraries' missions encapsulates the work of the MIT Libraries' Department of Distinctive Collections (DDC). The DDC preserves the Institute's physical and unique collections. We invite you to join us for this year's ALA Preservation Week Celebration at MIT, where we will highlight the collaborative and innovative methods we use to preserve and amplify the Institute's essential core collections. We also focus on how our staff safeguards the global human transmission of historical technologies related to bookmaking, printmaking, and historical writing traditions.

The DDC is home to the Aga Khan Documentation Center, the Institute Archives, the Maihaugen Gallery, Public Services, Rare Books, Records Management, the Visual Collection, and the Wunsch Conservation Lab.  

• Registration required. 
• Duration: 12–1:30 pm
• The tour begins promptly at 12:00 pm. 
• Meet in the MIT Museum entrance Lobby. 
• Registration is limited to 20 people.