The Kursk Regional Museum of Local Lore has a domestic planetary scanning complex ElarSkan A1-600KS

2023: ElarScan delivery A1-600KS

The Kursk Regional Museum of Local Lore has delivered a domestic planetary scanning complex ElarSkan A1-600KS, with the help of which it is planned to digitize tens of thousands of documents, including ancient and rare editions. Elar announced this on October 4, 2023.

OBUK "Kursk Regional Museum of Local Lore" for October 2023 unites 32 branches located in the Kursk region. The total number of museum items of the main fund is 383,597. Of these, 243,860 items are subject to scanning - these are documents, photographs, rare books, newspapers, graphics, postcards and other printed materials. Work on scanning the fund has been successfully carried out since 2013 on the PlanScan S3-TsA-600M scanner. In August 2023, a new planetary scanner ElarScan A1-600KS was acquired.

{{quote 'The ElarScan planetary scanner A1-600KS was chosen due to the fact that, thanks to the presence of a V-shaped cradle, it will allow us to scan dilapidated originals of books and documents with incomplete disclosure and with a wide spine, which we previously could not do, - said Oksana Viktorovna Shebeta, head of the museum accounting department. - Documents and photographs, engravings of the 19th-early 20th centuries, posters, posters of the 20th century, a collection of rare books, sheets of newspapers of the Soviet period and other valuable materials are planned for digitization - only a few tens of thousands of originals. }}

Among the most valuable books that will be digitized using domestic equipment, for example, Kantemir AD "Symphony or Consent to the God-inspired book of psalms of the king and prophet David" (1727), Gospel, in Church Slavic (1575); The Ostrog Bible (1581); Apostle rewritten by priest Vasily Rylyanin in May 1597.

Digital copies will be placed in the State Catalog of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, used for virtual exhibitions on the museum's website, as well as provided upon request to researchers and visitors to the museum. In addition, electronic copies are used to study museum items by researchers.