The University Library in Poznan has over 3 million volumes in its collection. Not all of them are available only on-site, in the building at Ratajczaka 38/40 in Poznań. Some of them can be found on the... Internet, or more precisely in the Greater Poland Digital Library: https://www.wbc.poznan.pl/.

It is a joint initiative of Poznan's academic community involving scientific and public libraries of the City of Poznan supported by the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Centre. The premise of the project, ongoing continuously for 20 years, is to create online access to four types of resources: educational (scripts, textbooks and scientific monographs), cultural heritage (selected historical writings), regionalalia (writings on Poznań and Greater Poland) and musicalia (sheet music and writings related to music).

- "It all begins with the selection of materials that we honestly wish to digitise and disseminate, as it is our primary objective," says Jolanta Noskowiak, head of the Resource Protection Division and Digitisation of the University Library in Poznań. "It's a time-consuming process. The materials are often very damaged, and solely, those well-preserved are digitised quickly. Everything depends on the format, too. If the material is prone to tearing or glued together, it can be quite dramatic," continues Jolanta Noskowiak. Frequently, work on a volume has to be paused to enlist the help of the Book Preservation and Restoration.

You can read more in an article in the amu.edu.pl web site at: https://tinyurl.com/3m9uwd2x.