RSPU named after A. I. Herzen will digitize book monuments at ElarSkan

2022: Digitization of print and rare book fund publications

The company ELAR announced on November 1, 2022 that A.I. Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University it is conducting digitization printing publications and publications from the rare book fund.

The library named after Empress Maria Fedorovna is the old university library of Russia. As of November 2022, the library fund has about 3 million copies of books in all branches of knowledge. Of particular value are the books of a rare foundation, some of which are book monuments. Some of the book monuments are presented only in the university library.

On the domestic planetary scanner ElarScan S2-800 in contactless mode will be digitized (as saved copies or fragments) printed editions of different years and various states - from modern to those who have survived a large history of pages several centuries old. Among the most valuable publications stored in the fundamental library of the RSPU, for example, the works of the theologian and philosopher Augustine Aurelius, published in 1532 in Paris (Augustino A. Index omnium, quae insigniter a d. Aurelio Augustino dicta sunt, nunc recens supra Germanicam aeditionem quatuor tomorum materijs locupletatus: Additi sunt praeterea indices duo, authoritatum sacrae scripturae explanatarum unus, alter librorum omnium eiusde, ordinealphabetico, accurate digesti / Augustino Aurelio). Also, digital copies will be created for the books "An ironic song about the campaign against the Polovtsy of the specific prince Novagorod-Seversky Igor Svyatoslavich: Written in ancient Russian at the end of the XII century with translation into the dialect used now (Moscow, 1800), "Under the holy sky: Publication of Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Elisaveta Feodorovna "(Sergiev Posad, 1914) and the History of the Pugachev Riot, written by Pushkin and published in St. Petersburg in 1834.

At least 100 pages of various publications will be digitized daily, namely covers, titles, turnover of titles, tables of contents, end titles, pages with autographs, commemorative or gift inscriptions, bookplates, illustrative and photographic materials, as well as parts of documents necessary in everyday bibliographic work (articles, paragraphs, chapters, sections). The ElarScan S2 planetary scanner is ideal for streaming contactless scanning of documents of various formats. Digitization takes place quickly and efficiently. The software allows you to create templates for publications of different formats, which speeds up and facilitates subsequent work. It is important that the use of the scanner does not require additional special training from employees, tells Natela Nodaryevna Kvelidze-Kuznetsova, director of the fundamental library named after Empress Maria Fedorovna.

The university notes that electronic copies of small fragments that do not violate the norms of intellectual property rights, stamps that tell about the movements of publications, droppings, gift inscriptions, bookplates will supplement, illustrate bibliographic records in electronic catalogs and thematic file cabinets of the fundamental library. Also, electronic copies of permissible fragments can be sent on request for the services of the IBA (interlibrary subscription) in the electronic document delivery (EDD) mode.

In addition, electronic copies will be used as illustrative material to fill news, exhibition and other sections of the official library website, social media groups and youtube channel, supplemented by Natela Nodaryevna Kvelidze-Kuznetsova.