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The Digital Scriptorium, the University of California, Berkeley, andColumbia University announce the return of the Digital Scriptorium to itsoriginal home at Berkeley.The Digital Scriptorium is an image and cataloguing database that unites themedieval and Renaissance manuscript holdings of a growing number of Americanlibraries. It began in 1997 with the combined resources of Berkeley andColumbia; present membership includes thirty institutions with over 5000manuscripts and 27,000 images, all freely available on the web. Memberinstitutions include the Huntington Library, New York Public Library, theHoughton Library at Harvard, and the Ransom Center at the University of Texas."We look forward to expanding the membership of the Digital Scriptorium andto developing its Web 2.0 capabilities," says Thomas C. Leonard, UniversityLibrarian at Berkeley. "Since the base technology for the project originatedon this campus, we are confident that the expertise of our staff willre-integrate the program smoothly into our present system, and that we willmake the Digital Scriptorium even more useful to medievalists."During its six-year tenure as host to the Digital Scriptorium, Columbia alsocontributed to the database's increasing strength. James G. Neal, Columbia'sUniversity Librarian, adds that "extensive work was carried out by ourLibraries Digital Program Division to build a highly specific scholarlysearch engine, and the coverage of the database was significantly expanded."Columbia's Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, ConsueloDutschke, was re-elected in the annual Digital Scriptorium members' meetingto a second term as Executive Director; she will retain that post untilSeptember 2012.The new URL for Digital Scriptorium, http://www.digital-scriptorium.orgcurrently directs users to the Columbia site; when the transfer to Berkeleyis completed in January of 2011, it will point seamlessly to Berkeley servers. 