Annual Meeting 2022 With continuing safety challenges from Covid19 facing all of us, the Executive Committee of the Manuscript Society reaffirms our moving forward with the 2022 Annual Meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia. We also want to assure attendees we are doing everything in our power to ensure a great meeting. [...]
Submission Deadline Looming - February 14, 2022 One month remains to apply for the $5000.00 Maass Research Grant. Offered each year to graduate students of any field who work in manuscript collections this grant allows great flexibility. Some grants fund only travel. But that’s a narrow view of the expenses [...]
Manuscript Digest – December 2021 – January 2022 – This complimentary e-digest, now published bi-monthly, covers significant acquisitions and sales, manuscripts lost and found, rare books and ephemera, document conservation, and more […] […]
University of Miami Announces Donation of pre-republic Cuban manuscripts, documents and books Book from the Cejas Cuban Collection donated to University of Miami Paul Cejas, alumnus, has donated a treasure trove of materials to the University of Miami Libraries’ Cuban Heritage Collection. According to Elizabeth “Liz” Cerejido, Esperanza [...]
As archives and repositories again open their doors, the Manuscript Society is about to open its window for 2022 Maass Research Grant applications. Our $5,000 grant supports research using original sources. Who can Apply Applicants must be graduate students—doctoral candidates are given preference—at an institution that currently belongs to the [...]