Digitalizacija stare građe

Digitization has become a regular part of library management. Its success will depend on how well defined and prepared are the answers to the questions what, why and how to digitize. The article takes into consideration digitization from the point of view of creative reservation in the function of enabling and improving access to knowledge contained in different types of particularly valuable old printed and manuscript material. The author also expresses her attitude that digitization should further promote scientific and research work, and that it should present collections of old material to the wider public in a creative way. In order to achieve that, it is necessary to thoroughly prepare digitization projects, i.e., to define criteria for the choice of material to be digitized, cataloguing format for the digitized material and digitization techniques, ensure (large) financial resources and, finally, enable the use of digitized material