Rare book editions of the 18th-early 20th centuries will be digitized in Belgorod

2023: PlanScan A2-400 Scanner Delivery

The Belgorod State Museum of History and Local Lore has supplied the domestic planetary scanning complex ELAR PlanScan A2-400 - using professional equipment, digital copies will be created for rare books of the 18th century, as well as for various documentary evidence of the Great Patriotic War. Elar announced this on June 7, 2023.

Belgorod State Museum of History and Local Lore is one of the oldest cultural institutions in the Belgorod Region. All activities of the museum are based on its museum collection, which, as of June 2023, has about 180 thousand museum items. The collection is decorated with collections of rare books, graphics, documents and photographic materials telling about the history of the Belgorod region.

{{quote 'On ELAR PlanScan we plan to digitize the materials of the stock collections "Printed Products" and "Rare Book," published during the XVIII- beginning. XX centuries, - said Vera Vladimirovna Romanenko, director of the Belgorod State Museum of History and Local Lore. - It is also planned to scan materials from the period of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. (maps, combat schemes, manuscripts of war veterans, newspapers, magazines, books, drawings and posters published in 1941-1945); books, catalogs, albums depicting views of the city of Belgorod of the late XIX early XX centuries. Total over 2000 units. }}

The museum clarifies that among the most valuable materials, books published in the synodal printing houses of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra and in Moscow will be digitized in the first place. These are rare editions made in the Old Slavic language: Gospel, Bible, Minea, Kyiv Month, Shield of Faith, Old Believer Servant, Trebnik, Psalter, published from about the 1750s to 1900s, etc.

{{quote 'ELAR Scanner PlanScan was selected for high-quality digitization of the museum fund. The presence of a V-shaped book cradle allows you to save the book binding. The ability to scan in A2 + format allows you to digitize documentary sources and book publications of non-standard size, - said Vera Vladimirovna Romanenko. }}

Electronic copies of documents will be used in the research activities of the museum, as well as in the preparation of articles in the media, historical references. Electronic copies of the documents will be available to researchers, which will make it possible not to disturb genuine documents.