Tag: manuscripts

• Smuggling Timbuktu’s Libraries: Preservation and Protecting Manuscripts Against Human Threats

  October 22, 2020

  Libraries and Archives

  African history, archives, Joshua Hammer, libraries, manuscripts, Timbuktu

  Today I’m sharing a short paper I wrote for my preservation class on Timbuktu’s libraries. It’s basically presented here in its original state except for some images that I’ve added. For the class we were instructed to research a library disaster and the response to that disaster in an international setting. After some initial research,…