Center for Retrospective Digitization

The Göttingen Digitization Center ( GDZ ) is an agency of the Lower Saxony State and University Library (SUB Göttingen ) for retro-digitization and preservation of historical book collections. It was founded in 1997 and expanded under the auspices of Elmar Mittler headed by Norbert Lossau funded by the German Research Foundation as an international competence and service center for libraries and scientific institutions in the retro-digitization field.

Among the major projects of the GDZ include the digitization and cataloging of the Göttingen Gutenberg Bible, the participation in the range of DigiZeitschriften and with the DigiWunschbuch the toll digitize books from the holdings of the SUB (or entries ) on behalf of individuals and / or entities. The digital collections of the GDZ include autobiographies, travel writings ( Itineraria ), cards, Mathematika, North Americana, Siberian, history of science, Zoologika and Miscellaneous and Unique stocks of the 17th and 18th centuries. In total there are currently more than 17,000 titles and 10 million pages have been digitized (as of 2013).

The technical equipment of GDZ currently includes (October 2010) nine scanners, including five table scanner, a scanning robot, a book scanner, a card scanner and a Grazer book table.