Preserving the Impressions of History – A Decade of Digitizing Chinese Rubbings at Harvard – The Circ Blog

"In 2004, Harvard Library’s Preservation Services and Imaging Services embarked on a long-term digitization project to preserve and provide access to this rare and fragile collection. The effort began with the Fine Arts Library’s Rübel Chinese Rubbings Collection and concluded a decade later in February 2014 with the digitization of the largest rubbings held by the Harvard-Yenching Library....Today, thanks to this decade-long collaborative effort, thousands of rubbings—large and small, in black or red ink—are preserved in Harvard’s Digital Repository Service (DRS) and accessible to scholars, students, and researchers around the world. You may browse the digital Chinese Rubbings Collection on Harvard Library’s CURIOSity site: https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/chinese-rubbings-collection."