A meeting of the Friends of Cambridge University Library will be held on Tuesday, 4 November 2008, at 5.30 p.m., in the Morison Room, University Library, West Road, at which Professor Toshiyuki Takamiya, Director of the Humanities Interface Project, will give a talk entitled Digitization of rare books: twelve years of the HUMI Project, Keio University. All are welcome; admission is free of charge. Tea will be served from 5 p.m.