Residential Option in the Arts and Letters (ROIAL) Time Capsule collection

Collection

Identifier: MSS 500 large

Staff Only

Starting in approximately 1990 until approximately 2001, under the direction of Prof. Anita Skeen, freshman and sophomore students prepared a time capsule every year to document their world for future generations in a closed deposit at MSU Special Collections for 100 years.

Dates

approximately 1990-2001

Creator

Michigan State University. Residential Option in Arts and Letters (creator, Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Time capsules from each year are closed for 100 years, and will be opened each year starting in 2090, with the final capsule opened in 2101.

Conditions Governing Access The material is stored offsite in Remote Storage. Please contact Special Collections 3 working days in advance if you wish to use it.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright is retained by the authors of the items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law. For photocopy and duplication requests, please contact MSU Libraries Special Collections.

Extent

7 Linear Feet

Additional Description

Biographical / Historical

Residential Option in Arts and Letters (ROIAL) was a humanities-based living and learning community for freshman and sophomore students at Michigan State University. ROIAL evolved into the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities in 2005.

Arrangement

Chronological

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Transferred to Special Collections in approximately 2001.

Processing Information

Various boxes rehoused for storage considerations and a lighter was removed and replaced by a photograph of the object in 2016 for preservation concerns, otherwise, housed and arranged by ROIAL students.