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Thursday, 8th October 2009

Digitization: Yale Library Gets Grant to Create Virtual Gallery of Islamic Manuscripts

From the Announcement:

Yale University Library and the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) have received a joint grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) in the United Kingdom to create a virtual gallery of Islamic manuscripts.
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Manuscript catalogues and dictionaries, most of which exist only in print, are important sources for locating individual manuscripts and manuscript collections. Drawing on the expertise of faculty, librarians and information specialists in both Britain and the United States, the project will scan approximately 20,000 pages in Arabic, Persian and Western scripts and will make them available in a sophisticated searchable repository. Yale and SOAS will also digitize and index historical manuscripts from their collections that highlight the contribution to world knowledge made by Islamic philosophers, physicians and scientists. The Gallery will also serve as a model for other special collections and libraries with manuscript and reference material holdings.

Ann Okerson, Yale’s Associate University Librarian for Collections and International Programs and principal investigator on the project, noted, “Our success in this very competitive grant process is a tribute to the significant efforts of Yale’s and SOAS’s expert technical managers and curatorial leaders.”

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