DOME COLLECTIONS

Institute Archives & Special Collections

COLLECTION

MIT Course Catalogs

Content

The "Bulletins" or course catalogs of MIT.

Size

approx. 30,000 images (50,000 pages)

Age

1875-1995; Fiche produced in 1996

Source

approx. 300 microfiche sheets, current version also on-line

Rights

MIT owned

Anticipated Audience

DLC's, Administration, faculty, staff, historians, legal, .  Use for historical comparisons, statistical analysis and trending

Benefits

Critical for any department or researcher trying to determine evolution of teaching and courses at MIT; to understand requirements for graduation when comparing curricula; to learn who taught what courses & when; Would be very valuable to alums who need course descriptions for professional certification

Format Risk

minimal

Format

need to scan to TIFFs; convert to PDFs?

Metadata

 

Funding

?

Other Comments

Discussions in the past with MIT Reference Publications Office and Rob Wolfe re: how to move this forward (stalled in part due to complexity of searching requirements and lack of funding)

8/2/2011 10:34:35    MIT Course Catalogs    Mikki Macdonald    IASC    

Heavily used material for historical and genealogical research, and often used by recent graduates when applying to doctoral programs and jobs.  

Would like to add to the Archives Dome community.

Complement to the Reports to the President.         

Barton records, Archivist Toolkit    known        

1865-2010        1865-1992 are microfiche   

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