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The following resources may be useful if you have information about organizations, departments, or events associated with the person you are researching.
MIT ArchivesSpace provides a searchable database of the various collections housed in the Department of Distinctive Collections. Collections of interest may include various academic departments and faculty papers as well as collections related to alumni and alumnae of MIT.
Please note: All archives and manuscript collections (AC and MC collections) are stored offsite and must be ordered at least four days in advance of a visit.
The Tech, MIT’s student-run newspaper in publication since 1881.
Issues from November 1881 through August 2016 are available at https://thetech.com/issues. All current issues are available at https://thetech.com/. The Tech is also available to search through Internet Archive.
The newspaper is published weekly during the regular school year and monthly during the summer.
Keyword searchable digitized issues are also available through the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mit_the_tech.
Tech Talk (T171.M42k.T4), MIT’s official newspaper written and published by the MIT News Office. It was published on a semi-weekly basis from 1957 to September 2009. This publication is available in the Distinctive Collections Reading Room on microfilm. Originals may be available upon request through the Distinctive Collections Request System. It has also been digitized and is available online via Dome.
MIT News Office is a part of MIT’s Office of Communications. Recent press releases are searchable and available at http://news.mit.edu/search. Distinctive Collections also holds the MIT, News Office Records (AC-0069), where a number of press releases have been digitized and are available through the finding aid.
"Pulls the Job" (Social Beaver 1960, 63)
The following repositories are located within the greater Boston area and may contain information regarding former MIT students and alumni/ae and MIT faculty and staff.
Student-Officers in Aeronautical Engineering Removing Engine from Airplane Fuselage. (Technology War Record, 27).
Many students and professors during and after their time at MIT were involved in government projects or were completing work recognized and valued by the United States government. The Library of Congress and the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration are home to some collections relating to former MIT students, professors, and projects based on MIT's campus.