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MIT Archives to Embark on Major Processing Project
MIT Archives to Embark on Major
Processing Project;
Reading Room Hours and Service to the Public to be Temporarily
Reduced
Early in February, 2002, the Institute Archives will begin a special
one-year project to organize important research material in its
collections. To free up staff to carry out this project in a
concentrated time-frame, the reading room will be open to the public only
two days a week February through May, and July through the following
January. Specific days and hours for the reading room will be
posted in late December.
The Archives reading room will open its regular five days per week for
the month of June in order to provide scholars significant uninterrupted
time for projects involving use of the collections.
For the one-year period of the special project, services to those from
outside of MIT will be reduced. The Archives will not provide
e-mail or telephone reference or research service to remote users and
there will be a limit placed on all forms of copying. There will be
no access to the unprocessed collections. For the convenience
of the public, the Archives will provide a list of collections that can
be used. The list will be posted on the Archives web site
shortly.
It is anticipated that in the course of the 12-month period, the Archives
staff will be able to process a considerable number of collections. The
project will give staff the time to process materials, making them
accessible for those seeking factual information or research resources
about MIT and its history. The MIT archival collections are among the
most significant records in the history of science and technology in the
United States. It is likely that many important yet never-used
documents will be ?discovered? in the process.
For further information contact: Megan Sniffin-Marinoff,
msniffin@mit.edu, 617-253-5690
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Mary Eleanor (Nora) Murphy
Reference Archivist
mithistory@mit.edu
617/253-5690
Please do not send questions to e-mail addresses of
individual staff members. Instead, address all correspondence,
including follow-up correspondence, to <mithistory@mit.edu>.