Digitisation projects at the National Library of Finland
The National Library is aiming to digitise key source materials for national research and to put the digitised products to use. The National Library’s digital library will be planned during 2009-2011.
- Historical Newspaper Library 1771 – 1909,
The digitising of newspapers will be continued. - Magazines 1810 – 1944
The digitising of magazines will be continued. - Monographs
-Books on travel and geography published 1810 – 1900 have already been digitised.
Older materials digitised in the Europeana Travel project.
-Universities, student associations, written albums - Special projects
-Dissertations from Åbo Akademi University,
1785 dissertations in use
-Mediaeval parchment fragments, in use 2012 - Audio recordings
-Sounds of the Century digitisation project (70% digitised). Copyright-free digitised recordings can be heard online through the Raita database.
-Finnish vinyls published in 1955 – 1965 have been digitised.
-Cassettes from the 1980s
