“Creation of a digital library on the collection of the first-printed Slavic books of the XV-XVI centuries”.
Creator: Russian State Library (RSL)
Description:
The proposed CD-ROM is the first of 11 just prepared for the use. It represents the project “Creation of a digital library on the collection of the first-printed Slavic books of the XV-XVI centuries”. This project in its purposes and forms corresponds to the appropriate international program of UNESCO “Memory of the world”.
It is a beginning of a large work on preservation and providing an access of readers to unique books. The essence of the project is that for the first time a collection of ancient first-printed Slavic books of the XV-XVI centuries will be completely digitized and put to Internet. Modern technologies in use allow one to collect in one place the Slavic books stored in various isolated book-stocks of the world. They were printed in a spiritual-Slavic language in Poland, Czechia, Italy and were distributed in Russia, Ukraine and Belorussia for which it was a common language.
According to the available scientific data nowadays 62 editions, known in the world, are included in the proposed digital library. A large part of this collection is stored in the Russian State Library. This project concerns with a sphere of books, library activity, and first of all – with RSL because it is an owner of this collection. The fulfilment of the project will be carried out in the RSL. Digitized books will be stored in RSL and major part of them will be available via Internet.