[Sca-librarians] [Scribes] Mourn the Cologne Archives

[Hillary Greenslade]

All the more motivation to work toward digitizing historical manuscripts and documents of rare and unique historical collections of museums, libaries and religious organizations.  
 
I'm very supportive of the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, that is currently digitizing manuscripts in the former Russian block countries and many mid-east and near mid-eastern country churches and libraries... many books that have never been seen outside of their own facilities.  Very cool projects where many will be online for our use and histories posterity, even if the manuscripts are themselves destroyed in some of these turbulent areas.  
http://www.hmml.org/
 
Regards, Hillary

--- On Wed, 3/4/09, Anna Troy <owly3 at yahoo.se> wrote:


From: Anna Troy <owly3 at yahoo.se>
Subject: [Scribes] Mourn the Cologne Archives
To: scribes at castle.org, dragon_scribes at yahoogroups.com, sca-librarians at lists.gallowglass.org
Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 2:54 AM



"The building housing Cologne's municipal archive collapsed on Tuesday, bringing parts of some surrounding structures down with it. At least two people are missing. Some of the documents housed in the archive date back to the year 922."
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,611158,00.html

video http://video.aol.com/video-detail/cologne-archive-collapses/2248557905/?icid=VIDLRVNWS03

Hundreds of Medieval manuscripts are now lost forever..
Anna de Byxe
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