Rarities in digital format

28 августа 2014
Alexey Rodionov: Unique books from the National Library will now be available in electronic form. All rare books are being scanned and digitized. This work takes a lot of efforts and time.

Viktor Prshibytko, head of electronic library at the National Library of Belarus: We transfer the books that are in high demand in digital form in order to avoid damage to them giving a high priority to rare documents.

The process is performed by special robot and is fully automatic.

Viktor Prshibytko, head of electronic library at the National Library of Belarus: Such process allows minimizing any harm to rare manuscripts.

Colleagues from Oxford and Cambridge Libraries addressed the National Library for help in digitalizing some rare books.

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