Information technology and libraries: Rare books are digitized for the e-collection “Peterburgiana”

 “Electronic Archive” Corporation has completed one of the stages of the project to create an electronic collection "Peterburgiana" in the V. V. Mayakovski Central City Public.

"Peterburgiana" is one of the first collections of Digital Library of a Corporate Network of Public Libraries in St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg KSOB). It is a comprehensive project for the selection, description and presentation of the Internet documents on the history of St. Petersburg. The starting point of the collection is a list of basic literature in St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg: materials for the Encyclopedia. St. P., 2003). Experience of a reference service to readers on local history allowed specialists of the Division of Petersburg studies of the Mayakovski Library, to substantially extend the list of source address books, Jubilee collection agencies, lists of people (graduates, civil servants, merchants), and other statistical sources with actual works on the culture and way of life, economy and management of the Northern Capita. "Peterburgiana" is based on funds of the V. V. Mayakovski, the National Library of Russia, the Russian State Library, Library of the Academy of Sciences, the Library of the St. Petersburg Architectural University, the Central Naval Library, and other collections.

According to the plan the "Peterburgiana" includes collection "Rare Notes", "Blockade/military book of Leningrad", a collection of library systems of St. Petersburg: the Moscow, the Kirov, the Vyborg, the Krasnogvardeisky, the Nevsky districts, the M. Y. Lermontov Interregional Library Cooperation Centre.

The principled position of the Mayakovski Library is to save the original image of the book while providing automated text search. In the course of 2015, ELAR specialists scanned 57500 pages of old, including the dilapidated books.

The e-Library is available to readers in the library, or remotely via the Internet, providing access to rare books on the history of St. Petersburg and all comers, regardless of where they live, and the mode of full-text search allows you quickly finding the information.