Rare editions from MOGNB fund of N.K. Krupskaya found an electronic format

In 2016 ELAR Corporation completed the project of digitization of local history editions for the Moscow regional state scientific library of N.K. Krupskaya. The periodical press and literature dated for 1920-1940 are available to readers in Network via the website of organization now.

Bound files of the newspapers "Moskovsky Bolshevik", "Literatura i iskusstvo", Pravda, "The literary newspaper" are scanned on planetary scanners, indexed by numbers and issue dates. From electronic images of newspapers specialists of ELAR create the PDF edition with a possibility of context search in automatically recognized texts. Rare books about the Moscow region, both natural-science character, and historical and cultural, were also scanned, and their electronic copies are converted into the PDF format in order that it was convenient to users to study sources in a digital form.

MOGNB fund of N.K. Krupskaya is one of the largest book meetings of Central Federal District. The library is stored, including rare books — over 52 thousand editions. Within the project the socio-historical documents containing information on life of the Moscow province of the end of the XIX beginning of the 20th centuries were digitized: statistical year-books, collections, reports, records, journalism, calendars. These editions are of interest first of all to historians, sociologists and local historians.

Originals of documents are dated for 1874-1910 and therefore required especially care. At digitization the Planskan ELAR planetary complex A2 allowing to perform contactless scanning and to ensure complete safety of primary sources was applied. The received graphic images were recognized and converted into the PDF format with a text substrate and a possibility of context search according to pages.

The received array of the digitized books will fill up the MOGNB electronic collection of N.K. Krupskaya that will allow to expand access for readers to fund of rare editions of library.