The National Library of Luxembourg, more widely known as its French abbreviation BnL, has equipped its eluxemburgensia.lu portal with a new viewer that is easier to use and more efficient.
This development aims to optimise navigation among the various contents digitised by the BnL and freely available, from historical Luxembourg newspapers and magazines to monographs, posters and old postcards.
More than 687,791 digitised pages are currently available online. Among the wide range of documents are the Tageblatt and the Luxemburger Wort until 1950, the Lëtzebuerger Land until 2007 and the latest addition, the Luxembourg history journal Hémecht, put online in March 2020.
The new viewer, described as faster and modern, adapts to all media and screens. The digital content, text and images are presented with a better resolution which also adapts to the medium used. Users can enlarge a line, an illustration or a paragraph while keeping optimal clarity.
A calendar view has also been integrated into the viewer. A calendar was already available before on the eluxemburgensia home page, but was missing in the viewer itself, which forced users to go back and forth between two web pages. This problem has now been resolved, according to the BnL.
Users also benefit from automatically generated bibliographic references. This can prove particularly interesting for the preparation of bibliographies or the citation of individual articles.
In addition, IT programming and coding enthusiasts and specialists may appreciate the new APIs (application programming interfaces) that the BnL will make available to them in the coming weeks via the data.bnl.lu portal.
The contents of eluxemburgensia are accessible directly via the eluxemburgensia.lu portal and they are also searchable via the unified search engine a-z.lu.
