REPERE ALE PROCESULUI DE DIGITALIZARE ÎN BIBLIOTECILE DIN ROMÂNIA. CARTE VECHE ÎN COLECȚIILE DIGITALE ALE BIBLIOTECII CENTRALE UNIVERSITARE „LUCIAN BLAGA” DIN CLUJ-NAPOCA
Highlights of the Digitalization Process in Romanian Libraries. The Old Book in the Digital Collections of the ”Lucian Blaga” Central University Library in Cluj-Napoca

Summary/Abstract: Digitisation and digitalization are both processes that have taken research into a new dimension and a hotly debated topic in the global and national specialised milieus. Digitisation of cultural and scientific assets as a means of preserving identity, as a support for future research, is just one facet of the current cultural strategies that are developing worldwide. Since 2008, we have been discussing also in Romania the institutionalisation of the effort to preserve and enhance the Romanian cultural heritage through digitisation. In this context, libraries, as institutions at the forefront of these transformation processes, have rethought their presentation profiles and accessibility paths in order to keep pace with the technological development of society and new generations of users. Digitisation, as the priority stage of preserving and opening up access to knowledge, was followed by digitalization, the higher stage in which the evolution of software technologies enabled the connection and processing of information and the way it was accessed. Following the evolution of digitisation and digitalization processes in our country, we propose in this paper an insight into the digital collections of old books of one of the most representative institutions of culture and education – the Central University Library "Lucian Blaga" in Cluj-Napoca, which has stood out for the rigour and constancy of its efforts in this field that has raised multiple challenges.

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