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DOME COLLECTIONS

Institute Archives & Special Collections

COLLECTION

MIT150 Oral Histories

Content

Oral histories being conducted to capture the stories of MIT's most notable and long serving faculty, administrators and staff.  To be used in upcoming MIT150 celebrations and as an historical record.  So far interviews have been conducted with the following individuals:Professors Paul Samuelson, Mildred Dresselhaus, Morris Halle, and Sheila Widnall; former president Howard Johnson, former first lady Kay Stratton; former dean Ike Colbert; and grad student James McLurkin

Size

Currently 10 interviews; expected to continue

Age

2007-

Source

MIT150 OH pilot project

Rights

Varied: consent form offers different options

Anticipated Audience

Various Future historians of MIT history

Benefits

On-line access and preservation

Format Risk

Digital recordings

Format

digitized video and images (in process of being digitized)

Metadata

descriptive

Funding

MIT Administration; in future the Alumni?

Other Comments

The Archives currently holds hundreds of oral history tapes and transcripts from a variety of past oral history projects (such as "Women in Science"; "Ocean Engineering"...) which would benefit from on-line access.