This work has already been going on for four years. Employees digitize various literature and fill the electronic library LibraryGO with scanned copies. Andrii Andrukhiv, Director of Scientific and Technical Library at 果冻APP says:
鈥 During this period, a total of 466 documents were digitized. By the end of 2023, 995 publications from the library collection were presented in t. These are textbooks, manuals, monographs, and reference publications. We fill the system from two sources 鈥 electronic copies, which are transferred to us by the Publishing House of 果冻APP, and the most popular editions of the fund, which are digitized by the employees of our library. Students, academics and all employees of 果冻APP have online access to full-text documents with mandatory authorization, and all other users have access to document metadata without access to the full text.
鈥 How do you choose literature for digitization? Which do you prefer?
鈥 For educational needs, we select the most popular and limited editions from the fund. Another direction in the selection of documents for digitization is the preservation and presentation of valuable and rare publications from the library fund. We place them in 鈥 and all users have free access to them. For the most part, such documents do not belong to educational literature. For example, from this series we digitized the periodical D藕wignia from 1877鈭1882, Polytechnic Society in Lviv, and Czasopismo Techniczne from 1881鈭1917.
To support the library鈥檚 technological processes, such as inventory, there were digitized the library鈥檚 old books from the beginning of the fund鈥檚 formation (1850鈥1939) and printed catalogues for this period.
In 2023, the library employees digitized the collection of photo films which the famous Lviv scholar Oleksandr Shyshka, a long-term director of the library (1993鈥2015), received as a gift. These are more than 300 author鈥檚 photos from 1985鈥1992 鈥 a collection of 24 photo films, 18 of which are dedicated to the Lychakiv cemetery and are the basis of this fund. This material is an important source for studying the history of Lviv in general and the Lychakiv cemetery in particular.
We are currently researching a part of the library鈥檚 collection up to 1939. We pay special attention to documents that demonstrate the development of the university鈥檚 scientific schools, we select unique publications that need restoration, further digitization and presentation to readers.
