News (2016)30 December 2016|Timbuktu Project NewsOverall progressThe overall progress of works funded by the German Federal Foreign Office has been updated in a monitoring table.17 October 2016|Timbuktu Project NewsViennaAbdel Kader Haidara, Dmitry Bondarev, and Eva Brozowski were invited to the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna to discuss the importance of manuscript...12 October 2016|Timbuktu Project NewsConference in ManchesterMaria Luisa Russo presented a paper entitled “Joining the dots: projects on conservation and research of Malian written cultural heritage”...31 July 2016|Timbuktu Project NewsProgress in preservationNew high quality certified preservation materials have been purchased in Europe, such as brushes, protective masks, cutters as well as pencils and...15 July 2016|Timbuktu Project NewsAdvancement in box makingDue to advancement in box making there is a need for additional storage space. The manuscripts from one of the storage rooms which became too small...25 June 2016|Timbuktu Project NewsEvents in TimbuktuOn the occasion of the the Assembly of the Administrative Council of SAVAMA-DCI held in Timbuktu, SAVAMA delivered to the libraries’ owners the...5 February 2016|Timbuktu Project News35 Timbuktu libraries under SAVAMA-DCI’s care in BamakoOut of 35 libraries under SAVAMA-DCI's care, 12 libraries have been inventoried and 11 libraries have been boxed. An update as of December 2015 with a...28 January 2016|Timbuktu Project NewsExtension of funds from the German Federal Foreign OfficeAt the end of 2015 SAVAMA-DCI and CSMC submitted an application to the German Federal Foreign Office for funding extension of the major preservation...20 January 2016|Timbuktu Project NewsDigitisation works will be twice as intensive as beforeSAVAMA-DCI, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, and the Juma Al-Majid Centre for Culture & Heritage have reached an agreement on doubling the capacity...
