I never met Aaron Swartz, though I certainly knew of him. I’ve been teaching library school students about him since his 2011 arrest for sneaking into an MIT server closet to mass-download the contents of JSTOR. I learned of his death by his own hand via airport wireless, early on the morning of Saturday, January 12. Exhausted by a week of teaching a data-curation bootcamp for librarians and digital humanists, the most I could muster was a weak, aghast “aigh. no.”
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MIT Libraries Receive Chomsky’s Papers
By on February 14, 2012
MIT’s Libraries were selected to preserve the personal archives of linguist, activist, and Institute Professor emeritus Noam Chomsky. The collection spans Chomsky’s career, beginning when he joined MIT in 1955. The addition of Chomsky’s personal archives, and a large portion of his personal library, augments a small existing collection of Chomsky’s papers already in the care [...]
