The British Library’s Endangered Archives Program (EAP) Announces Release of Four New Collections Available Online

From the Endangered Archives Program (EAP) Blog:

We have another four completed digitisation projects that have recently gone online. These four projects represent both the global breadth of EAP projects and the wide variety of content types:

• Temple manuscripts from Kerala and Karantaka, India [EAP908]

Led by Dr Vayalkara Jayarajan, the EAP908 team digitised 283 palm leaf manuscripts located at seven different temples in the Indian states of Kerala and Karnataka. The exact sources of these manuscripts are unknown as they have been acquired from several priests and passed on from generation to generation.

• Bound works and manuscripts from Tajikistan [EAP910]

Led by Dr Abdughani Mamdazimov, the EAP910 team identified and digitised pre-Soviet works from private collections in the Gissar region of Tajikistan.

These collections are particularly focused on education, both religious and secular.

The bound works include collections of poetry and a biography of the prophet Muhammad.

• 19th century Haitian newspapers [EAP1024]

This pilot project digitised 26 different newspaper titles held by the Bibliothèque Haïtienne des Frères de l’Instruction Chrétienne (BHFIC) in Port-au-Prince.

The newspapers are printed in French (with occasional words in Haitian Creole). Topics include political, economic, and diplomatic news and debates. It also includes literary publications, like short stories and poems.

• Archives of public high schools in Chile [EAP1065]

The EAP1065 project team, led by Mr Rodrigo Sandoval, digitised administrative records from eight high schools in Chile.

Dated 1848-1918, these records include:

• Correspondence
• School subjects
• Enrolment records
• Directories
• Punishment room books
• Religious class books
• Diaries
• Exams
• Instructions for edification

This video provides an insight into the project.

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