Digitization activities
The Silesian Library carries out suggestions and proposals for digitizing documents from its own collections according to the following rules:
- Digitization is performed only from library materials belonging to the public domain, i.e., not covered by property copyright as defined in the Law on Copyright and Related Rights. These include, for example:
- magazines published 70 years ago,
- documents whose author or last co-author died 70 years ago.
- official documents, etc.
- The scanned document is published in the resources of the Silesian Digital Library.
- The proposer can receive scans of the publication electronically.
- Proposals are carried out on a first-come, first-served basis.
- In justified cases (e.g. condition of the original) digitization may not be performed.
In order to submit a digitization proposal, please:
- Check whether the proposed document has not already been placed in the digital resources of the Silesian Digital Library or in other digital libraries in the country (e.g., in the service of the Digital Library Federation).
- Check in the Silesian Library catalog for the document data, with the title, author and reference, indicating the ordered pages/illustrations of the document (possibly with a link to the document description in the catalog).
- Send proposals to: digitalizacja@bs.katowice.pl.
For information on other services related to the provision of digital resources of the Silesian Library, please refer to the document Price list of fees and services provided by the Silesian Library, pt. Reprographic services and digitization.
