Financing the Malta Study Center

A report on St Cloud Times of Central Minnesota states that The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library at St. John's University has met the target for the financing of its Malta Study Center. from The St Cloud Times:

The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library at St. John's University has met a fund-raising goal that keeps it in the running for a matching grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The NEH will provide $1 for every $4 raised by the HMML for its Malta Study Center as part of a four-year fundraising drive that began in August 2003. The NEH set fundraising benchmarks that the HMML had to meet in order to receive the matching funds.

The Malta Study Center collection at HMML contains more than 16,000 documents, dossiers of documents and a research collection of 800 books from Malta. It is one of a few libraries in the United States that actively collects books and other works about the history of Malta, and researches the role of Malta as a crossroads of the Christian and Muslim worlds. Malta, a former possession of Great Britain, is an island nation in the Mediterranean Sea, south of Sicily. The $2.25 million endowment to HMML will fund a curatorial position, acquisitions, programming and preservation of rare manuscripts and documents related to Malta.

The Malta Study Center in the USA - from Wired Temples