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Digitálna knižnica UKB: five centuries of print, searchable to the word
The University Library in Bratislava keeps its digitised newspapers, journals, books, sheet music and manuscripts in one library on MediaINFO Digital Library, open to anyone.
more than1.6 million
pages
from the 16th century to today, full-text searchable
University Library in Bratislava, September 2026more than100,000
items
periodical issues, books, manuscripts, sheet music and maps, open to anyone
Digitálna knižnica UKB, October 2026
The library
Digitálna knižnica UKB
The University Library in Bratislava chose MediaINFO Digital Library in 2012 to bring together digitised periodicals and books that had been spread across separate systems. Its digital library now holds more than 1.6 million pages. Nearly all of them are periodicals, dailies, weeklies and magazines from the 16th century to today, in Slovak, German and Hungarian above all.
Every document except the manuscripts has its text recognised, so a search finds a word on every page where it occurs and marks it there. Among the books are editions of Comenius's Janua Linguarum Reserata and Orbis Pictus. Among the manuscripts is the Bašagić collection of Islamic manuscripts in Arabic, Turkish and Persian, inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World register.
Timeline
Digitálna knižnica UKB, year by year.
The new digital library is shown to the public, with more than 800 issues of the 19th-century newspaper Obzor online. Pravda
The library chooses MediaINFO Digital Library to bring its digitised collections into one place. MediaINFO
More than 1.6 million pages: 97% periodicals, nearly 400 manuscripts and more than 2,300 books. University Library in Bratislava
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