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August 24, 2005: Malta Books at St. John's University
"COLLEGEVILLE — 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 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."
