National Library of Karelia digitizes rare publications on ElarScan

2021: Digitization of rare editions at ElarScan A2

The National Library of Karelia is digitizing rare publications at ElarSKAN. This was announced by Elar on May 26, 2021.

More than 16 thousand pages of rare and valuable local history literature will be digitized on the ElarSkan A2 scanner until the end of 2021.

We have been working on the ElarSkan A2 scanner since the beginning of 2021, and according to the plan, by the end of the year it is planned to digitize 915 copies of documents (more than 16 thousand pages), which include mainly local history books, newspapers and magazines in Russian and national languages, "says Svetlana Vladimirovna Tretyakova, chief specialist for scanning library collections of NB Karelia. - As of May 2021, 46 copies of documents with a total number of more than 5 thousand pages were digitized on this scanner.

The library notes that when choosing equipment for digitization, they focused on several important factors.

This is the ability to scan valuable copies of library documents without physically damaging them, good color reproduction of the document image, the ability to scan individual documents or pages with high resolution and scan large-format documents, "explains Svetlana Vladimirovna Tretyakova. - As well as selection of functions for subsequent processing of received images.

Among the valuable publications planned for digitization in 2021 are "Drawings for the Study of Fisheries in the Northwest Lakes" (St. Petersburg, 1876); "Geological and orographic essay of the Olonets province and its natural-historical regions" (I. A. Kishchenko, Petrozavodsk, 1915); "On the previous and upcoming activities of the Committee to help the pomors of the Russian North" (St. Petersburg, 1909).

The created electronic copies are used for placement in the electronic library on the website of the National Library of Karelia.