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The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) is a non-profit organization located at and sponsored by Saint John's Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota. HMML’s mission is to identify, digitally photograph, catalog, and archive the contents of manuscripts belonging to threatened communities and to make the copies available to users around the world through online catalogs.〔("HMML: Frequently Asked Questions" ), ''Hill Museum & Manuscript Library''.〕 Since its founding in 1965, HMML has partnered with 540 libraries and archives to photograph more than 140,000 manuscript books dating from the ancient to early modern eras, totaling some 40,000,000 handwritten pages. HMML's online catalog, (''OLIVER'' ), contains over 107,599 entries. Its online image library, (''Vivarium'' ), contains sample images from digitized collections and provides free access to complete manuscripts in password-protected galleries.〔("HMML: Frequently Asked Questions" ), ''Hill Museum & Manuscript Library''.〕 HMML serves three constituencies: communities or libraries with endangered manuscript collections; scholars who research manuscript and textual history; and the non-specialist general public interested in the transmission of human knowledge and artistic creativity in manuscript form. In addition to its manuscript collections, HMML holds works of art and rare printed books from the Middle Ages to the present 〔("Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML)" ), ''College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University''.〕 and is home to ''The Saint John's Bible'', the first handwritten and illuminated Bible to have been commissioned by a Benedictine Abbey since the invention of the printing press in the 15th century.〔("A Bible for the Times" ), ''The Saint John's Bible''.〕 Since 2003, Columba Stewart, OSB, a monk of Saint John's Abbey, has served as HMML's executive director. HMML is located in the Alcuin Library, designed by Hungarian architect Marcel Breuer. ==How HMML Operates== HMML serves as the preservation archive in the event that original manuscripts are destroyed, stolen, or otherwise lost. For each collection to be digitized, HMML signs a contract with the owners of the manuscripts, who then receive copies of the images and retain commercial and publication rights. Collections never leave the owners. On-site digitizing work is done by local technicians trained and paid by HMML. Once the digital copies are processed, catalog information is available on (''OLIVER'' ) and sample images from each manuscript are displayed on (''Vivarium'' ). Administrative and funding activities are based at HMML’s location in Collegeville, Minnesota, while catalogers from both Collegeville as well as from several countries contribute to the creation of metadata for the recently-digitized manuscripts. In addition, HMML maintains a field office in Beirut, Lebanon.〔("A Monk Saves Threatened Manuscripts Using Ultramodern Means" ), ''The Chronicle'', November 29, 2009.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hill Museum & Manuscript Library」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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