The St. St. Cyril and Methodius National Library is currently the largest public library in Bulgaria and the oldest cultural institution after the country's liberation, and also houses one of the richest Ottoman archival collections. Today, the National Library collects preserves and provides the entire Bulgarian printed production, draws up an archive of Bulgarian literature and publishes the National Bibliography. It is an ISBN and ISSN center for Bulgaria.
The Library has various collections: collection of manuscripts, old printed, rare and valuable books; the collection of the Bulgarian Historical Archive, a collection of Oriental manuscripts, old printed books and archival documents.
This project was of utmost importance for the National Library as well as for the publishing and library sector because it helped two crucial national tasks for libraries and book stores in the global space to be realized:
In May 2010, as part of the project “Digitizing and Preserving the Literary Wealth of Bulgaria“, i2S delivered and installed a whole set of scanners to meet the needs of the National Library of Saints Cyril and Method:
By the beginning of 2016, a total of 330,000 documents have been scanned and added to the Digital Library (period 1844 1944) / images and their metadata):
