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Doing More with Less: The Rylands Genizah Project RLG European Partners Meeting Oxford, October 2010 Dr Stella Butler,

Doing More with Less: The Rylands Genizah Project RLG European Partners Meeting Oxford, October 2010 Dr Stella Butler, Deputy University Librarian, JRUL. The Rylands Genizah Project 2003-2009.

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Doing More with Less: The Rylands Genizah Project RLG European Partners Meeting Oxford, October 2010 Dr Stella Butler,

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  1. Doing More with Less: The Rylands Genizah Project RLG European Partners MeetingOxford, October 2010Dr Stella Butler, Deputy University Librarian, JRUL

  2. The Rylands GenizahProject 2003-2009

  3. Collection originated in the Ben Ezra Synagogue in CairoAcquired in 1954 from the estate of Moses Gaster11,000 fragments mostly on paper some on parchmentMostly Hebrew and Judeo-ArabicIn very poor physical condition The Genizah- unearthing treasure

  4. Range of documents: religious texts, Bible, Talmudpersonal correspondenceshopping listsschool exercise books Genizah Collection

  5. JRUL Luna Insight Image Collections

  6. Rylands Genizah Collections

  7. The Power of Magnification

  8. The Power of Magnification

  9. Rylands Genizah Project: enhancing the image Arabic Text Rylands Genizah

  10. Rylands Genizah Project Arabic Text Rylands Genizah

  11. Genizah Cataloguing Project: making Manchester joins Fragments A639-2, B4754-1, and A 724-2 Piyyutim for grace after meals with 150 poetic lines

  12. Genizah Cataloguing Project: making Manchester joins Fragments A639-2, B4754-1, and A 724-2 Piyyutim for grace after meals with 150 poetic lines

  13. Rylands Genizah Project: making the joins across collections Maimonides: Guide of the Perplexed Rylands Genizah B 2597 and B4094

  14. Rylands Genizah Project Making the joins Maimonides: Guide of the Perplexed Rylands Genizah B 2597 and B4094

  15. Rylands Genizah Project: Making the joins Fragment from Cambridge University Genizah Unit Maimonides: Guide of the Perplexed

  16. Rylands Genizah Project Fragment from Cambridge University Genizah Unit Maimonides: Guide of the Perplexed

  17. Genizah Cataloguing Project: web advantages

  18. Adding value: Princeton Transcriptions

  19. Genizah Cataloguing Project: web advantages

  20. The digital image becomes an analytical toolThe power of magnificationMaking joins recreating the archivemanipulating the image- improving on realitysharing the resource- democratizing knowledge Genizah Cataloguing Project: digital advantages

  21. Access for scholars across continentsDemocratization of knowledge- avoids reservations and rewards serendipityEncourages networks around themes and subjectsReuniting collections and single objects A medium for conversationKeeping metadata with image Genizah Cataloguing Project: web advantages

  22. Complementary skillsHas avoided the loneliness of the long-distanced cataloguerHas brought academic community closer to the physical collectionsCataloguing has been a collaborative effort both with JRUL and with wider Genizah community Genizah Cataloguing Project: productive collaborations

  23. ‘Doing More with Less’http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/eresources/imagecollections/university/genizah/Dr Stella Butler, Deputy University Librarian, JRUL

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