Stock Photo - 11 May 2021, Saxony-Anhalt, Halle (Saale): Carmela Kahlow, archivist at the Francke Foundations in Halle/Saale, uses a high-performance scanner to digitize historical volumes from the foundation's holdings. The foundations want to increase the digitization of their cultural studies holdings. To this end, the institution has been provided with funds for the purchase of a state-of-the-art scanner as part of the state's digitisation offensive. Now the systematic digitization is to be advanced in the study center. The Francke Foundations go back to the Protestant pastor August Herrmann Francke. He initially established the foundations in an orphanage in the 17th century. Photo: Hendrik Schmidt/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB. - Halle (Saale)/Saxony-Anhalt/Germany