Nowadays, social media is a given. Whether you tweet, update your Facebook status, or enjoy uploading images of a midday meal or two, the assumed default is that everyone is involved in at least one type of social media. That assumption, combined with our own need to be ever-connected, continues to feed the development of […]
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Timbuktu Manuscript project and Promoting Libraries on Mass Media
In one of our previous blog posts, we introduced the plight of Timbuktu ancient manuscripts in Mali during the ongoing war.[i] As recent report says, after being rescued from the Islamic fundamentalists, these materials were relocated to South Mali, which has caused new threats to them. Now they are facing preservation issues caused by humidity […]