03 May 2012
April Accessions part one
During April the EAP received material from the following projects:
In addition to projects EAP026 and EAP027, which surveyed the Liberian Presidential and National Archives and digitised the personal papers of William Tubman, Dr Verlon Stone's team are in the process of conserving, cataloguing and digitising Tubman-era photographs, mostly produced by official government photographers.
Delegates exit a train [October 1956]
M. Brosio, Ambassador for Italy, meets Vice-President William Tolbert. Washington DC [1956-1961]
The photographs are currently being held at Indiana University where they are undergoing conservation work, and will be returned to Liberia at the end of the project. The digitised photographs are available to view at Indiana University Image Collections Online.
EAP144 The digitisation of Minangkabau's manuscript collections in Suraus
The EAP144 project digitised manuscript collections held by Surau and private collectors in Western Sumatra. 253 manuscripts were digitised in total, including works of Tasfir, Tasawuf, Fiqh, Minangkabau law, medicine and letters. The project also ran a successful event at the Faculty of Letters, Andalas University, Padang, in which 26 people from local institutions received training in manuscript preservation and digitisation techniques.
The remaining accessions will be featured next week.
Alex