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National library St. Cyril and Methodius

Project background

National library St. Cyril and Methodius
  • Customer National library St. Cyril and Methodius
  • Date 2010
  • Country Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Fields of application Cultural Heritage - Digitization
  • Project Digitize and Preserve the Literary Wealth of Bulgaria (2009 - 2011)
  • Work performed Digitization of old manuscripts

The project issue

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:

  • Creation of digital copies of unique documents from the National Library funds - Slavonic manuscripts from the 14th century; Sigills from Oriental collections; Bulgarian periodicals from the period 1878 - 1940 through the expansion of the library's existing digital center and the purchase of specialized equipment and software for digitization.*
  • To create and develop a National Register of Print Publications (NPRI).

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I2S products

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:

  • i2S DigiBook SupraScan A0
  • 2 i2S Digibook Copibook HD


The realization of the project

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):

  • manuscripts
  • old books
  • unpublished documents from the Bulgarian Historical Archives and the Oriental Department
  • portraits, images, illustrations, maps
  • Bulgarian newspapers and magazines

The advantages of the i2S solution

  • the digitization of a large number of archives
  • Bulgarian historical wealth protection insurance
  • handling of documents of various formats and dimensions
  • public access to all documents via the Digital Library

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