2017-11-13T15:46:33-08:00 2016-12-31 Gray Salt & Associates LLP 201 W 4th St Ste 100 - PO Box 2018 Claremont CA 917118018 990 2016-01-01 352253653 Early Manuscripts Electronic Library EARL 9098965900 904 Silver Spur Road Rolling Hills Estates CA 90274 Michael B Phelps President 2017-11-10 true Brewster A Gray CPA CGMA P00388792 9096266462 X 2016 2017-02-10 21:41:12Z Michael B Phelps 306 Bayoak Drive Cary NC 27513 372142 false false X N/A Use digital technologies to preserve and provide access to historical source materials, especially ancient and medieval manuscripts and rare books. 6 5 3 0 367632 4500 10 0 372142 0 0 64383 0 5115 300656 365039 7103 105512 145623 13953 46953 91559 98670 Use digital technologies to preserve and provide access to historical source materials, especially ancient and medieval manuscripts and rare books. false false 316185 EMEL pursued its core mission in projects that used digital imaging to recover illegible texts in ancient and medieval manuscripts and to digitally photograph an endangered manuscripts library for preservation and access.Concluded major five-year project at St. Catherine's Monastery of the Sinai, Egypt, to use multi-spectral imaging to recover illegible texts form ancient and medieval manuscripts in the monastery library. Specific activities included: onsite spectral imaging of illegible manuscripts; processing raw spectral data in the U.S. to render the manuscripts legible; coordinating an international team of scholars to catalog the recovered texts; and working with the University of California-Los Angeles to archive project results and publish them online.Negotiated new project with St. Catherine's Monastery of the Sinai, Egypt, to digitally photograph its extensive manuscript library, beginning with its Arabic and Syriac manuscripts. The Monastery holds the world's oldest continually operating library, and it is endangered due to the presence of ISIS on the Sinai Peninsula.Undertook project at the Berlin State Municipal Library, Germany, to use multi-spectral imaging to recover the olderst surviging copy of teh Books of Enoch, which was erased and overwritten in the 15th century. The Books of Enoch is an ancient Jewish text that influenced the New Testament.Undertook project at the Austrian National Library to use multi-spectral imaging to recover the only surviving copy of an historical work by Dexippus, an ancient Athenian historian.Negotiated new projects for 2017, including the multi-spectral imaging of illegible historical manuscripts at teh Ambrosiana Library in Milan, Italy, and the Museum of the Bible in Oklahoma City. 316185 true true false false false false false false false false true false false false false false false false false true true false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false false true 8 0 false 3 true false false false false false false false false 0 false false false false false false false false false false X 6 5 false false false false false false false true true false false true false false false false false false false false CA X Michael B Phelps 9098965900 306 Bayoak Drive Cary NC 27513 Michael B Phelps Chairman 40.00 0.00 X X 43300 0 0 Claudia Rapp Secretary 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Randy Merritt Treasurer 1.00 0.00 X X 0 0 0 Dimitri Antsos Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 James A Sanders Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 Matt McGovern Director 1.00 0.00 X 0 0 0 43300 0 false false false 0 367632 367632 Indirect Cost Recovery 4500 4500 4500 10 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 372142 4500 10 0 0 0 0 43300 32475 8660 2165 0 15635 15635 0 0 5448 3002 2246 200 0 0 1940 1940 0 0 0 0 1695 1271 339 85 592 444 118 30 0 0 0 0 0 1324 1324 159 159 0 23277 17458 4655 1164 1810 1358 362 90 Project Develop & Imaging 133735 133735 Cataloguing 51601 51601 Image Processing 38950 38950 Data Management 27626 20720 5525 1381 17947 13847 4100 365039 316185 43739 5115 6679 65891 6061 8538 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 413714 342520 92772 71194 0 0 0 0 0 105512 145623 13953 11342 35611 13953 46953 X 91559 98670 91559 98670 105512 145623 X 7103 8 X false false false X 398740 401209 472252 145745 367632 1785578 0 40000 40000 0 0 438740 401209 472252 145745 367632 1825578 0 117542 225168 342710 117542 225168 342710 1482868 175 141 96 73 10 495 0 175 141 96 73 10 495 0 0 438915 401350 472348 145818 367642 1826073 0.81210 0.94060 0.00030 0.00030 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED 293714 251549 42165 120000 90971 29029 71194 Middle East 0 1 Research and Digitization Digital imaging 0 1 1 false false false false false false Form 990, Part VI, Line 11b: Form 990 Review Process Form 990 is reviewed by Chairman and provided to other board members for comment. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available Documents are available upon request. Other Changes In Net Assets Or Fund Balances - Other Increases Currency Translation = $8