Digitale Services für Kultureinrichtungen in Thüringen: Die Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena unterstützt in Kooperationsprojekten lokale Einrichtungen

Smaller cultural institutions which have limited staffing but valuable holdings of regional significance face especially difficult challenges when it comes to cataloguing and digitalising their collections. Therefore, they are frequently assisted by regional and state libraries through cooperative projects. This article provides an overview of the services which the Thuringia University and State Library of Jena offers in the field of cultural asset indexing and digitalisation. Thuringia's digital strategy includes a science-driven and science-based digitalisation of culturally high-ranking holdings in institutions and museums within the state and pursues the goal of making Thuringia's cultural heritage visible and accessible around the world. The activities of the Thuringia University and State Library (ThULB) are part of this strategy. In its function as state library, it is responsible for the state's union catalogue, its legal deposit collection of regional publications, and it also participates in numerous digitalisation and cataloguing projects with Thuringia's academic and cultural institutions. It also provides institutions which are not part of a library consortium with a free library software, »Koha«, to facilitate the administration of their collections.