The National Library uses cookies on its website. If you do not change your browser settings, you agree to their use. [close] Patrimonium / About the project About the project "Patrimonium - digitization and sharing of Polish national heritage from the collections of the National Library and the Jagiellonian Library." The project was initiated by the National Library, which for many years has been carrying out activities related to digitization and making its resources available in electronic form. The implementation of the project will allow significant quantitative and qualitative progress in remote access via the Internet to the most valuable and oldest Polish literature resources. Cultural resources from the two largest libraries in the country, digitized and made available under the Patrimonium, constitute the core of the National Library Resource, which, according to the Regulation of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of 4 July 2012 on the national library resource, is subject to special protection consisting in ensuring safe conditions for a given type of library materials, e.g. in the scope of copying and saving on IT data carriers that do not deteriorate their condition or damage. It will be made available through the Polona digital library, the most modern in Polandwhose graphic interface will be additionally expanded. The professional digitization equipment purchased under the project will ensure high quality of the digital image, as well as the archiving of objects and their protection in accordance with the standards in force at the National Library. All objects selected for the project belong to the public domain, which allows their unlimited use for scientific, educational, artistic and commercial purposes. The digitization process will cover documents from cartographic, music and iconographic collections, as well as magazines, leaflets, manuscripts, old prints and books from the 19th and 20th centuries. Some of them are subject to special protection for conservation reasons and are not available on a daily basis. They include, among others cimelia, prints from before 1801, manuscripts (including music manuscripts and manuscript maps), engravings, drawings, photos, maps from before 1946, archival copies of leaflets from before 1946. The digitization carried out will cover over a million objects: 652,000 from the resources of the National Library and 348,000 from the collections of the Jagiellonian Library. Thanks to the project, all these works will be widely available to every Internet user. Design " Patrimonium - digitization and provision of Polish heritage with a collection of turtle in the National Library and the Jagiellonian Library" is co-financed by the European Union from the middle of yellow in the European Regional Development Fund under the Operational Program 2014-2020 Digital Poland and the state budget. Total project value: PLN 99,984,329.00 The value of co-financing from the EU: PLN 83,473,889.88 Project implementation period: 01.2017 - 01.2020. About the project News Digitization at the National Library Digitization in BJ Polona contact National Library 2017