Information technology and libraries: Books from Crimean libraries to be digitized

Electronic information resources are being created in Crimean libraries.

The I. Y. Franco Crimean Republican Universal Scientific Library, the Centralized Library System (CLS) - Yalta, Yevpatoria and CBS of the Krasnogvardeisky district were converted to a digital format almost forty thousand pages of periodicals and literature on local history.

The work in the libraries of the peninsula were implemented by ELAR Corporation, which experts scanned documents, and formed a digital copy of publications in PDF format with contextual search based on images.

E-books will be available to visitors of Crimean libraries in electronic reading rooms, as well as on the Internet. "We have digitized more than sixty rare books in local history, - says the deputy director of the automation of the I. Y. Franco Crimean Republican Universal Scientific Library Alexander Melnikov. - These documents are available to readers of our library to work in the electronic reading room".

Yevpatoria CBS thanks to the project of digitizing provided to all lovers of antiquity and regional specialists-researchers free online reading of interesting books published in the second half of the XIX - early XX century. "Items selected for a virtual demonstration of the reader throughout the world are books, originally stood on the shelves of the Emperor Alexander II Yevpatoria City Public Library and marked with the owners' stamps and inscriptions", - said on CBS portal. In addition to the unique local literature about Yevpatoria, online agencies presented the book by N. A. Kotlyarevsky "Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov. The personality of the poet and his works", published in 1905 in St. Petersburg. This is a rare book, and today is the most valuable source of knowledge about the Russian poet and his work.