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Walters To Digitize Manuscripts

by Leslie Ofori

The Walters Art Museum a public art museum in Baltimore, Maryland has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant of $315,000, will be used over a period of 2 ½ years in a project that will allow the museum to digitize, catalog and distribute 105 illuminated medieval manuscripts. The manuscripts represent a wide array of cultures including: Byzantine, Greek, Armenian, Ethiopian,Dutch, English and Central European cultures. The project entitled ‘Parchment to Pixel: Creating a Digital Resource of Medieval Manuscripts", will digitize roughly 38,000 pages of ancient text and 3,500 pages of illumination.

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Loyolapalooza 2010

By Anna Idler

On April 25th, 2010, Loyolapalooza was held in Reitz Arena at 3p.m. at Loyola University. Filled with fun rides, delicious food, and friends, Loyolapalooza is one last hurrah for students before a chaotic week of final exams.

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