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10. Distinctive Collections – A book published prior to 1900 or a book about MIT

Distinctive Collections collects, preserves, and fosters the use of unique and rare materials such as tangible and digital archives, manuscripts, ephemera, artists’ books, and more. With these collections the Libraries seeks to cultivate an interest in the past, present, and future; the humanistic and the scientific; and the physical and the digital in order to inspire and enable research, learning, experimentation, and play for a diverse community of users.

Suggested Reads

Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT by T.F. Peterson
Becoming Mit: Moments of Decision by David Kaiser
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
Countless Connecting Threads: MIT's History Revealed Through Its Most Evocative Objects by Deborah G. Douglas
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Beowulf
The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
The Epic of Gilgamesh

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