The Board of Directors of Digital Scriptorium is excited to announce that the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has just awarded DS a $100,000 National Leadership in Libraries grant. The IMLS grant is for one year to plan the technical rebuilding of the Digital Scriptorium online union catalog and to expand the breadth and diversity of participating collections to include pre-modern manuscripts from all cultures. Digital Scriptorium was among thirty-eight projects out of 155 applications receiving awards. For more information please visit the IMLS website: https://www.imls.gov/news/imls-announces-182-million-investment-us-library-initiatives. DS is grateful to the University of Pennsylvania for serving as our administrative proxy, and indebted to all of you for your generous contributions and support of DS. You will soon be hearing further announcements, including the DS Annual Meeting, which is planned to be held remotely sometime near the end of September. Congratulations to everyone who has helped DS plan a new path for digital manuscript studies of the future!

The 2019 Fall Board and Annual meetings of Digital Scriptorium were held on Thursday September 26 – Friday September 27 at the Newberry Library in Chicago. The all-day meeting of the Board focused on final preparations for the Annual Meeting, a preliminary planning grant proposal for DS 2.0, and governance issues pertaining to Board assignments. …

In February 2019, Digital Scriptorium held 2.5 days of meetings from Sunday February 24 through Tuesday February 26 at the Beinecke Library of Yale University. The meetings were hosted by E.C. Schroeder, Head of the Beinecke Library and Treasurer of Digital Scriptorium. The meetings included a meeting on Sunday afternoon of the DS Board of …

The Fall Board and Annual Meetings of Digital Scriptorium took place on 6-7 September 2018 at the University of California, Riverside. Hosted by DS Board member Cherry Williams, UCR Director of Distinctive Collections, the meetings comprised two full days of work for the Board members, who had just finished their first three-year term. All Board …

The mid-year meeting of the Digital Scriptorium Board of Directors was held on Friday February 9th at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA, known not only for its collections of rare books and manuscripts, but also for its fabulous gardens. The meeting was hosted by Vanessa Wilkie, DS board member and Curator of Manuscripts …