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Special Collections is Carnegie Mellon’s repository for rare books, manuscripts and early scientific instruments and calculating machines. Open to the CMU community and to the public for research and instruction, it is an interdisciplinary workshop, where humanistic modes of inquiry combine with innovative tools to study historical technologies, books and artifacts. Special Collections curates the history of three related fields – computing, cryptology and information technology – from the fifteenth- to the 21st century.
Gifts to this fund received in the last year supported the acquisition of fascinating books and objects, including an exceedingly rare set of “Napier’s rods” (a wooden calculating device made in England in the 1600s), and the first Japanese book on the subject of mechanical calculation, printed in 1684.
Your gift to the Special Collections Acquisitions Fund helps us to advance our work by funding acquisitions that make possible transformative exhibitions, research, and other programs that bring students, scholars and members of the public into Special Collections and CMU’s Libraries.
Questions about giving? Contact Robin Mitchell, Chief Advancement Officer, at robinmit@andrew.cmu.edu or 412-268-4396.
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