Transatlantic collaboration on digitisation becomes a reality

"A call for proposals has been issued by the US National Endowment for the Humanities and the UK JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) to support collaborative digitisation projects by UK and US scholars. The aim of the GBP360,000 ($730,000) programme is to unite scholarly collections split between the two countries, explore innovative approaches to digitisation and match expertise in one country with collections to be digitised in the other"