Rare books of the A.I. Kytmanova Yeniseisy Museum of Local Lore will be identified at ElarSkan

2021: Use of ElarScan A2-450KS

Yenisei Museum of Local Lore named after A.I. Kytmanova In with the help of the planetary scanning complex ElarSkan A2-450KS will create electronic copies of more than 12,000 exhibits from various collections. The company Elar announced this on August 18, 2021.

The funds of the museum, founded in 1883, are a national treasure of great value, it is a collection of museum objects - monuments of material and spiritual culture according to the history of Yeniseisk and the Yenisei region from ancient times to the present day. Museum employees note that the professional scanner ElarScan with a deep cradle and careful scanning mode will allow them to digitize even the most voluminous books, as well as old and dilapidated documents without the risk of damaging valuable copies.

The collections "Documents," "Photographs and Negatives," as well as the collection "Rare Books," which contain, for example, such valuable publications as "The Teaching Gospel of Cyril Trakvillian" in 1696, "The Book of Nikon, Abbot of the Black Mountain," 1889, only about 12 thousand storage units, will be translated into electronic form, - told the chief keeper of the Yof the Museum of the Alexander ManMuseum ManManMantued.

The chief custodian explained that funds require digitization for various reasons. For example, the Rare Book is important to digitize, because the books included in this collection are dilapidated and create high-quality electronic copies of them - this is a chance to give them a second life. Handwritten documents need to be digitized, as the text on them "fades." Print publications 1920-1930. poor, unsatisfactory quality of paper. At the same time, the digitization of any collections is also an opportunity to provide access to electronic copies of even the rarest and most valuable publications and documents that would be impossible to see in the original for most users.