by Debra T. Cashion, PhD, MLIS, Digital Humanities Librarian and Assistant Librarian in the Vatican Film Library, would like to announce that the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has just awarded Digital Scriptorium a $100,000 National Leadership in Libraries grant. Debra is President and Executive Director of DS, a national consortium of museums and libraries with collections of pre-modern manuscripts, of which Saint Louis University is a voting member. 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. In her nine years at SLU, Debra has participated in other successful grant applications, including the President’s Research Fund (2014-2015) and the SLU Office of Research, Research Growth Fund (2019-2021). She is presently Project Investigator of the METAscripta Project, for which she has an online exhibit.
Saint Louis University’s collection of medieval manuscripts is described and viewable in Digital Scriptorium at https://digital-scriptorium.org/xtf3/search?rmode=digscript&smode=bid&bid=44&docsPerPage=30.
