The Central Universal Scientific Library of the Ivanovo Region will digitize ancient books and newspapers on ElarSkan

2023: ElarScan delivery A2-600RA

The national planetary scanning complex ElarScan A2-600RA has been delivered to the Central Universal Scientific Library of the Ivanovo Region, with its help they will create a base of an electronic reading room. Elar announced this on November 1, 2023.

The library is working on the creation of an electronic reading room where it is planned to use electronic copies of printed publications.

This equipment is planned to digitize books from the main library fund as part of the program for creating an electronic reading room. Special attention is supposed to be paid to books from the Rare Fund, local history literature and newspapers of the regional fund, - said Alexander Vladimirovich Sokolovsky, head of the Center for Regional Local History of the Ivanovo Central Universal Scientific Library. - Attention to regional funds is explained by the fact that these publications (especially newspapers) are either not enough or not at all outside the regional scientific library.

Electronic copies will be created for the publications of the Rare Fund of the XV-XVIII centuries. and the fund of the Riga (since 1918 Ivanovo-Voznesensky) Polytechnic Institute of the XVII-XIX centuries; digitize regional, district and large-circulation newspapers of the 1910s - 1940s, publications of the regional fund of the XIX - first half of the XX centuries.

{{quote 'The fund of a rare library book contains various examples of all known epochs of printing, starting from its early period, more than 300 old-printed books (XVII-XVIII centuries), tens of thousands of books and periodicals of the XIX - early. XX centuries. in Russian and leading European languages. There are manuscripts of the XIX century, - said Sokolovsky Alexander Vladimirovich. - Local history collection includes about 28 thousand books, periodicals and other documents from the beginning of the XIX century. to the present day. As of November 2023, the library contains about 2.9 million volumes. }}

Library specialists note that the domestic planetary scanner ElarScan was A2-600RA selected on the recommendations of colleagues - neighboring regional scientific libraries, as well as because this model has the characteristics necessary for operation.

A scanner with installed and configured software for scanning and processing images allows you to make high-quality electronic copies of printed publications available in the library, - said Alexander Vladimirovich Sokolovsky.

ElarScan A2-600RA allows you to receive images with optical resolution up to 600 dpi and scan widescreen documents up to A2 +. Built-in computer domestic software and allows you to get PDF files full-text search.