ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS OF ST. PETERSBOURG TO BE DIGITALIZED
By Aghavni Haroutiunian

AZG Armenian Daily
20/06/2007

The ancient manuscripts and unique books kept at the St. Petersbourg
University are being digitalized.

ITAR-TASS informed that Milana Azarkina, Librarian-in-chief of the
ST. Petersbourg University, stated about this.

She said that the University had already purchased special equipments
for digitalization. The equipment costs about $20 thousand in
total. The list of the books prepared for digitalization includes
Arabic and Ottoman manuscripts, books in Old Japanese, as well as
other unique pieces. Yet, it isn’t specified which company will carry
out the digitalization.