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. A control system for mass digitisation has been built in 2009, which will help to make the logistics of handling the material more effective. The National Library’s digitising policy for the years 2009 – 2013 is being drafted. The National Library’s digital library will be planned during 2009-2011.
Recent digitisation projects at the National Library
- Historical Newspaper Library 1771 – 1909,
The digitising of newspapers will be continued. - Magazines 1810 – 1944
The digitising of magazines will be continued.
-Joke books
- Theology - Ephemera collections; the digitising continues in 2010.
- Monographs, in use by the end of 2010
-Books on travel and geography published 1810 – 1900 have already been digitised. Older materials will be digitised in the Europeana Travel project.
-Soviet Karelia
-Universities, student associations, written albums - Special projects
-Dissertations from Åbo Akademi University,
1785 dissertations in use
-Mediaeval parchment fragments, in use by 2011-12 - 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
