ReferencesEstonia
ETERA: from the scanner to the reader, in one university library
Tallinn University Academic Library opened a digitisation centre and an open e-library on the same day. The scanners came from 4DigitalBooks; the library runs on MediaINFO Digital Library.
about7.4 million
pages
online, every page with text searchable in full
ETERA platform statistics, October 2026more than720 million
words
searchable
ETERA platform statistics, October 2026about220,000
items
in Estonian, German, Russian, English and other languages
ETERA platform statistics, October 2026
The library
ETERA
In September 2015 Tallinn University Academic Library opened a digitisation centre and ETERA, its e-library, on the same day. The centre's fully automatic book scanner, a 4DigitalBooks DL 3003 that turns the pages itself, had arrived in March 2012. About a million pages were online at the opening.
ETERA now holds about 220,000 items on some 7.4 million pages: books, periodicals and newspapers, theses since 2005, research collections and the Lotman and Mints archive, with photographs, maps, sheet music and video. Every item with text can be searched in full, more than 720 million words of it. ETERA runs on MediaINFO Digital Library, as its own description says.
From the shelf to the screen
Scanned by a partner, served by the platform.
Scanned
Supplied the library's fully automatic DL 3003 book scanner in 2012.
Tallinn University Academic Library, December 2020Served
MediaINFO Digital Library
The pages, their text and their descriptions, online for ETERA's readers.
Timeline
ETERA, year by year.
A 4DigitalBooks DL 3003, a fully automatic book scanner, arrives at the library. Tallinn University Academic Library
The digitisation centre and ETERA open, with about a million pages digitised. Õpetajate Leht
About 7.4 million pages and 220,000 items; more than 720 million words searchable. ETERA platform statistics
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