Information technology and libraries: Rare books from the Moscow Regional Scientific Library are digitized

The books from the collection of the N. K. Krupskaya Moscow Regional State Scientific Library are digitized. More than 10 thousand pages of the format A5 to A3 were converted into electronic form.

The library collection is one of the largest book collections of the Central Federal District. The library stores rare books – more than 52 thousand editions. As part of the project there were digitized socio-historical documents containing information about the life of the Moscow province of the end of the XIX early XX centuries:  statistical yearbooks, collections, reports, records, journals, calendars. These editions are of interest primarily to historians, sociologists and ethnographers.

Originals of documents are dated 1874-1910 and that is why required particularly careful handling. When digitizing, there was used a planetary complex ELARA PlanScan A2 that allowed non-contact scanning and ensuring the complete safety of primary sources. The received symbols are recognized and converted into PDF format with text substrate and text-searchable pages.

The resulted array of digitized books will enrich the electronic collections of the N. K. Krupskaya Moscow Regional State Library that allows increasing the access to the fund of rare editions of the library.