MATENADARAN MANAGEMENT INVALIDATES MEMORANDUM SIGNED WITH HILL

Noyan Tapan
May 04 2007

YEREVAN, MAY 4, NOYAN TAPAN. Yerevan Mesrop Mashtots Matenadaran’s
management on May 3 invalidated the memorandum of intentions
signed with U.S. Hill Museum-Library of Manuscripts. According to
the memorandum, that organization after signing of another three
agreements was to start activities of digitalization of manuscripts
kept at Matenadaran.

According to the Azg daily, the decision of digitalizing Armenian
manuscripts by Hill received a wide public resonance and called forth
contradictory opinions. Besides, the public also refused the idea of
keeping the copy of manuscripts’ picture in another place outside
Armenia. A great mass of public considers that digitalization of
manuscripts should be carried out with the funds of Armenian government
or Armenian benefactors and without preconditions, which will threaten
RA copyright of manuscripts’ owner.

After all this, Matenadaran management hopes that it is possible to
organize digitalization with native forces and is going to work out
a conception for organizing the work.