1. Doing More with Less: The Rylands Genizah Project RLG European Partners Meeting Oxford, October 2010 Dr Stella Butler, Deputy University Librarian, JRUL

2. The Rylands Genizah Project 2003-2009

3. Collection originated in the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo Acquired in 1954 from the estate of Moses Gaster 11,000 fragments mostly on paper some on parchment Mostly Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic In very poor physical condition The Genizah- unearthing treasure

4. Range of documents: religious texts, Bible, Talmud personal correspondence shopping lists school exercise books Genizah Collection

5. JRUL Luna Insight Image Collections

6. Rylands Genizah Collections

7. The Power of Magnification

9. Arabic Text Rylands Genizah Rylands Genizah Project: enhancing the image

10. Arabic Text Rylands Genizah Rylands Genizah Project

12. Genizah Cataloguing Project: making Manchester joins Fragments A639-2, B4754-1, and A 724-2 Piyyutim for grace after meals with 150 poetic lines

13. Genizah Cataloguing Project: making Manchester joins Fragments A639-2, B4754-1, and A 724-2 Piyyutim for grace after meals with 150 poetic lines

14. Maimonides: Guide of the Perplexed Rylands Genizah B 2597 and B4094 Rylands Genizah Project: making the joins across collections

15. Maimonides: Guide of the Perplexed Rylands Genizah B 2597 and B4094 Rylands Genizah Project Making the joins

16. Fragment from Cambridge University Genizah Unit Maimonides: Guide of the Perplexed Rylands Genizah Project: Making the joins

17. Fragment from Cambridge University Genizah Unit Maimonides: Guide of the Perplexed Rylands Genizah Project

20. Genizah Cataloguing Project: web advantages

21. Adding value: Princeton Transcriptions

22. Genizah Cataloguing Project: web advantages

23. The digital image becomes an analytical tool The power of magnification Making joins recreating the archive manipulating the image- improving on reality sharing the resource- democratizing knowledge Genizah Cataloguing Project: digital advantages

24. Access for scholars across continents Democratization of knowledge- avoids reservations and rewards serendipity Encourages networks around themes and subjects Reuniting collections and single objects A medium for conversation Keeping metadata with image Genizah Cataloguing Project: web advantages

25. Complementary skills Has avoided the loneliness of the long-distanced cataloguer Has brought academic community closer to the physical collections Cataloguing has been a collaborative effort both with JRUL and with wider Genizah community Genizah Cataloguing Project: productive collaborations

26. ‘Doing More with Less’ http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/eresources/imagecollections/university/genizah/ Dr Stella Butler, Deputy University Librarian, JRUL http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/eresources/imagecollections/university/genizah/