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Presents news brief related to Christianity. Release of the audio book "The Sounds of Slavery," by Shane White and Graham White; Pursuit of several educational and religious institutions in developing a hyperspectral imaging technique for the viewing of the Codex Sinaiticus, one of the oldest complete Greek New Testament manuscripts; Discovery of a Saxon rotunda underneath the parking lot of Herefordshire Council in Leominster, England.

Presents information on a computer system that allows its users to electronically turn the pages of fragile documents, which is installed at the British Library in London, England. Information on four manuscripts that have been partially digitized; How the system works; Web site where you can see still shots and read translations.

The article presents several international initiatives that are making digital collections from libraries and cultural institutions available to researchers on the Internet. In September 2008, the Organization of American States (OAS) agreed to contribute materials to the U.S. Library of Congress' World Digital Library. The Wellcome Library is partnering with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina to make available its collection of Egyptian and Arabic medical manuscripts. A pilot program, to be finished in late 2009 at the University of Manchester's John Rylands University Library, will digitize medieval texts including early manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and John Wyclif's Latin to English translation of the New Testament.