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Thanks Ya-Ya! It’s good to hear from you! As for the size of the pictures, I had to fit a lot in and I didn’t have a large selection to choose from. Most everyone runs away when I show up with a camera! I’ll post some others at some point but feel free to send me any new ones of you and you’re family and I’ll post a “Library Veteran Update”. : )
Lonnie
brogdonl@aquinascollege.edu
“I am so glad to see the pictures of all my friends in the library and mine. Adria’s picture is very pretty, and I like it. But Adria, Mark, Lonnie, eve-lisa, and laura’s pictures are small. I hope they are bigger. By the way, Lonnie, thank you for doing this. Great Job! I will put the picture on the wall of my appartment!” YangYang
FYI. You might add this site to your page for medieval manuscripts.
I love the picture of my friend Adria!
Paula Carns
Librarian
University of Illinois.edu
Interesting project at UCLA described in the Chronicle of Higher
> Education:
> http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3606/a-digital-window-on-the-medieval-world
> \
> Thousands of medieval manuscripts have been digitized by libraries
> around the world. The trick has been finding them. Matthew Fisher,
> an assistant professor of English at the University of California at
> Los Angeles, thought up a solution: the Catalogue of Digitized
> Medieval Manuscripts, a centralized online archive of holdings
> around the world.
>
> For decades, even centuries, scholars have had to find their way
> around library holdings using shelfmarks, unique identifying numbers
> assigned to each document — a kind of Dewey Decimal System without a
> unifying organizational principle, according to Mr. Fisher. The
> catalog will pull many of those records into one spot, so that
> researchers who cannot hop on a plane to faraway libraries can still
> get their hands, virtually, on manuscripts they want to work with.
>
> So far Mr. Fisher and his team have found as many as 5,000 digitized
> manuscripts they want to include. As of February 9, 1,024 of those
> had been entered in the catalog. Two grad students help vet each
> entry and figure out what categories it belongs in. Mr. Fisher
> acknowledges that for now the archive focuses mostly on Western
> European and North American holdings, but he hopes to marshal the
> scholarly expertise to bring in more records from other parts of the
Paula,
I’m glad you could SEE Adria’s picture. They’re all pretty small but it’s the thought that counts, right? Also, thanks so much for the info! I’ve added the link you provided to the “Catalogue Of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts” to MY collection now as well!
Lonnie