Below, specific scanning information is provided for each format. The production of this digital collection proceeded under format digitization standards as implemented by the American Memory pilot project. Materials held in Russian institutions were digitized in Russia. The University of Alaska Fairbanks scanned cartographic materials from 4x5 color transparencies. Online, all items from the collections of the Library of Congress are described and searchable individually in a bibliographic record database, utilizing full MARC record cataloging when available.
Bibliographic information is recorded in romanized form only.
For items from the collections of the Library of Congress, the convention is that the transliteration of information from the original items reflects exactly the orthography used on the original item. Items from the collections of the Russian and Alaskan partner libraries are described and searchable in the same bibliographic record database as Library of Congress materials, but making use of the respective standards for description of those institutions. Each item was reproduced as a fascsimile page image. The image capture occurred at the Library and, in order to preserve the originals, bound works were scanned in their bindings. One page was scanned at a time.