Information technology and libraries: The digitization of old newspapers and magazines in the National Library of Bashkortostan

The Akhmet-Zaki Validi National Library of the Republic of Bashkortostan (Ufa) is continued the work on the conversion of old newspapers and magazines to the electronic format. Specialists have started with the earliest collections of national periodicals – since 1920.  First these are the binder of the newspaper "Red Bashkiria", which for quality scanning texts is to be taken from the Central Historical Archives of the Republic of Bashkortostan, where the newspaper is better preserved because they were less likely to. Next will be digitized “Ufa Provincial Gazette” since 1878.   

All the work is carried out within the framework of the target program “Culture of Russia” and is divided into two projects: “The electronic library of periodicals of the XVIII-XX centuries” and “The electronic library of periodicals of Bashkortostan of early XX century”.

On the eve of the 70^th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War it will be created the electronic collection “Moments of War in Newspaper Memory” according to materials of the newspaper “Red Bashkiria”. The digitization of publications of this period will allow readers through the Internet finding interested information.

The plans of the department of periodicals is the conversion of unique magazine collections to the digital format: “The Agricultural leaf of the Ufa provincial zemstvo”, “Bulletin of the Board of Education”, “Proceedings of the Teachers Union of Ufa province”, “Journal of Education”, “Ufa printer”, “Bulletin of the Center for Statistical Bashkir management”, “Bulletin of the NKVD and BashTsIK”, Izvestia of Ufa Provincial Commissariat”, “Bashkir region”, “Farm Bashkiria”, “Ufa cooperator”, “Journal of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee meetings”. These collections are of interest to local historians, historians, educators, culture and university students in the learning cycle which includes discipline, including compulsory regional component for the study of the history and culture of Bashkortostan.