A British philanthropist has given $2.2-million to the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries to expand efforts to digitize their vast collection of books and manuscripts.
The gift, by the businessman Leonard S. Polonsky, will help pay for a new digital-imaging studio as part of a $115.6-million renovation of the New Bodleian Library, which will be known as the Weston Library upon reopening in a few years. The facility will be used to scan and make available online Oxford’s most valuable and fragile documents and publications.
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