A self-service digitization point for personal archive documents has been installed in the reading room. Here you can scan personal photos or documents free of charge and use them in digital format. There are two computerized workstations with scanning equipment installed that enables scanning documents of various sizes (A3, A4, and smaller).

This department has 176 collections of manuscripts from varied individuals and institutions, and stores more than 18,000 units (about 230,000 pages) of creative manuscripts, memoirs, personal documents, letters, and photographs. Currently, they are being digitized and made public, and the digitized ones are available on the heritage portals epaveldas.lt and europeana.eu, as well as being exhibited in stationary and virtual library exhibitions. The foregoing documents are also accessible to other heritage institutions, namely, historians, museologists, and local historians.

Those interested in the Panevėžys press can directly view digital versions of the newspapers “Panevėžio tiesa”, “Tėvynė”, “Laisvas žodis”, and “Sąjūdžio žodis” on a computer screen. “No more filling out order forms, no more lifting heavy sets, no more dust,” the employees note.

We invite visitors to share digital images of their preserved historical documents and photographs with the library, as the library is a great place to store family or community archive originals.

In this reading room, publications published before 1946, and manuscripts are also read. Also, rare publications, some encyclopedias, dictionaries, books with autographs, serial and periodical publications, microcopies, visuals, cartography, some audio and video documents, and single copies—these are not issued for home use.

After exiting the Local History Reading Room, turn right and go up to the 3 rd floor, to the Arts Reading Room, labeled – MENŲ SKAITYKLA.