Posted August 10, 2026 by L.P. Coladangelo, DS Catalog Project and Data Manager
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New DS Catalog Records
DS records have been added for manuscript objects from
- University of Chicago
- Lehigh University
- Ohio University
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Smith College
- Wellesley College
These additional records now bring the DS Catalog to over 30,000 records! We are grateful to the many member institutions who have thus far contributed their manuscript descriptions for inclusion into the DS Catalog and for all members’ support in achieving this milestone.
2026 Annual Meeting
The Annual Meeting of the DS Membership will be held on Friday, September 18, 2026 in person in Rochester, NY, and online, hosted jointly by DS members University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology. To learn more about the meeting, and to register to attend (both online and in-person), please follow this link.
ICMS 2027 Call for Papers
2027 International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 13-15, 2027
Call for Papers:
Manuscript Collecting in North America: Considering the Means, Motives, and Opportunities
Sponsored by Digital Scriptorium and the Peripheral Manuscripts Project
Regional and national efforts have recently increased the discoverability of the numerous medieval manuscript holdings found in North American collections. Such projects have made more–and better–data about North American manuscripts, revealing complex histories of manuscript circulation on this continent. We invite papers that consider the many motivations that drove collectors, booksellers, and institutions to acquire and trade manuscripts, including economic, political, and social factors relating to the dispersal of libraries and collections in Europe and the Middle East, and the less savory aspects of the trade such as book-breaking, theft, and graft.
Abstracts can be submitted via this link: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2027/prelim.cgi/Session/8428
Deadline for submission is September 15, 2026.
New Blog Post
In this month’s blog post, DS Fellow Kelly Tuttle gives a glimpse into her work with manuscript items held at the Eastman School of Music Sibley Music Library at the University of Rochester. Her focus for this project is mainly creating metadata for leaves and fragments in the Oskar Fleischer Collection. Check out her blog post here!