Exhibits—Architecture. Image courtesy: Facilities Archive, MIT Office of Campus Planning, 2026. The MIT Facilities Archive was typically reserved for internal staff, but MIT has made recent efforts to showcase some of their most famous buildings. The three exhibits range from the original 1913 Cambridge main group to the modernist post-war construction of the 1950s and 1960s. By combining original architectural documents with photographs and historical analysis, they showcase

Paul Martineau (Editor) and Ryan Linkof (Editor), Getty Publications, 2025. Created to accompany the J. Paul Getty Museum’s 2025 exhibition Queer Lens: A History of Photography, this volume recounts the history of queerness and photography, emphasizing how interconnected and impactful each has been on the other. Including 157 photographers and over 200 plates, this book is an exhibit catalogue, a history, a retrospective, a collection of essays, and a celebration of queerness

Corey Keller, Getty Publications, 2025. Anna Atkins: Photographer, Naturalist, Innovator provides a biographical overview and an art historical look at the legacy of one of the first female photographers. Author Corey Keller is a photographic historian with an interest in nineteenth-century science and worked as a curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) for nearly two decades. Classified as juvenile nonfiction recommended for ages 13 and up, the volume is n

Bamber Gascoigne. Thames & Hudson, 1986; 2014 reprint. Archival professionals juggle many roles in the course of their work. One of the most exciting but sometimes puzzling is that of the detective. If we are lucky, we have collected accurate “evidence” from either inspecting archival materials, conducting research, and/or discussing the objects with the donor or experts to classify the asset swiftly and accurately. If we follow the wrong clues and misidentify an archival mat

This is the third of a three-part series by Aliza Leventhal and Julia Larson on enhancing archivists’ visual and technical literacy in handling complex digital objects. Visual Components of CAD Interfaces: What You See Isn’t Always What You Get MicroStation image. Image courtesy: Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Collection, Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley For all of its functionality enhancements over its history, the interface of most Computer-Aide

Education—Tools and Tricks. Image courtesy: National Park Service. Museum Handbook, Part I, Appendix J: Curatorial Care of Paper Objects. Washington, DC: National Park Service. For anyone looking for easy, bite-sized conservation advice, the National Parks Service Conserve O Grams is a necessary resource. The site offers "short, focused technical leaflets" for the care of museum collections. While the leaflets are written for museum conservation staff, they also serve as a qu

Hello! My name is Sabrina Gorse, and I am happy to be serving as your Communications Coordinator for VMS. Currently, I work for Heritage Werks as an Archivist, helping install and process new archival collections that come in from Heritage Werks’ clients. Ultimately, my work supports Heritage Werks’ role as a custodian, ensuring that our clients (from corporations to non-profit cultural institutions) can continue to access and use their archival assets for years to come. Thes

Morgane Côme. "An immersive look inside 12 colorful alphabet albums used by 19th- and early 20th-century French sign painters. Beginning in the 19th century, sign painters adorned the streets and storefronts of French cities with eye-catching letters in styles ranging from the elegant to the eccentric. Large chromolithographic portfolios supplied these artisans with an array of dazzling model alphabets for use as inspiration, teaching aids and shows of technical skill. Lettre

Herman Hertzberger . "Lessons for Students in Architecture , written by Dutch architect and educator Herman Hertzberger (born 1932), was first published in 1991 as an elaborated version of lectures Hertzberger had given since 1973 at Delft University of Technology. Since its first edition, the book has become a classic for students the world over; this immensely successful volume has gone through many reprints and has also been published in Japanese, German, Italian, Portugue

Patricia Albers. "The first full biography of the innovative 'father of modern photography' vividly depicts his life and works, from Hungary to France and America, across the 20th century. Born in Budapest in 1894, André Kertész soared to star status in Jazz Age Paris, tumbled into poverty and obscurity in wartime New York, slogged through 15 years shooting for House & Garden , then improbably reemerged into the spotlight with a 1964 retrospective at New York’s Museum of Mode