'Libraries in Exile' fights to save priceless manuscripts in Mali - CSMonitor.com More than a year after conflict<http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2013/0131/Conflict-in-Mali-shows-US-needs-greater-engagement-in-Africa>in Mali threatened scores of priceless historic manuscripts due to looting, fire, and moisture damage, an ambitious initiative is taking shape to save the endangered manuscripts before it’s too late. Libraries in Exile, an international coalition of librarians, archivists, and historians, has launched an appeal to raise $100,000 via crowdfunding site IndieGoGo<http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/timbuktu-libraries-in-exile>to save the Arabic manuscripts http://bit.ly/15lJg5J Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2013/0617/Libraries-in-Exile-fights-to-save-priceless-manuscripts-in-Mali See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/15lJg5J+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
