Djenné, like its ‘twin sister’ Timbuktu a day’s journey due north, has a large collection of Arabic manuscript, since Islam arrived here in the 13th century. These manuscripts belong to many individual Djenné families, many of whom have decided to bring them into the Djenné Manuscript Library for safe keeping. During my time in Djenné I was asked to try and find funding to preserve these treasures, and I was able to engage the support of the Endangered Archives Programme (https://eap.bl.uk/) of the British Library which sponsored four consecutive digitization projects in Djenné between 2009 and 2017. I worked as the project manager and have continued to be closely involved in the preservation of the manuscripts of Mali in both Djenné and Timbuktu. This brings me to Mali several times a year to oversee the digitization work which continues, now with the sponsorship of the HMML, the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, an institution which has digitized manuscripts worldwide over forty years, and which is run by Benedictine monks based in Minnesota, US.