It’s no secret that Google has large plans for book digitization. Three years ago the company was reported to have had the ambitious goal of digitizing the 129+ million books thought to be in existence within the coming decade. Although the Chronicle of Higher Education reported in March 2012 that Google was scaling back book digitization at partner institutions in the United States, the same report noted that “[s]ome of its digitization efforts have shifted to Europe.” If Google has shifted its efforts to European libraries, early modern historians have cause to rejoice. Indeed, at least in the case of 
Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB; National Library of the Netherlands), which partnered with Google in 2010 to digitize 160,000 public domain books from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, book digitization appears to be accelerating.
With most of Google’s partner libraries, it is impossible to know what books are in the process of being digitized. However, the KB catalogue offers a glimpse of books currently tagged for digitization. In order to inform its patrons that a book has been pulled from the shelf, the librarians at KB have added a note: “This book is temporarily unavailable due to digitization.” (“Dit boek is tijdelijk niet beschikbaar vanwege digitalisering.”) A search for this phrase turns up books in the catalogue that either have been recently digitized or will be digitized in the coming months. As of today, there are in the queue over 38,000 titles from the eighteenth century (1700-1799) and 13,000 titles from the nineteenth century (1800-1899).
For users of the Junius Institute’s Post-Reformation Digital Library, this means that in the coming months the collection of available eighteenth-century Dutch theological works is set to rapidly expand. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of theological works from Dutch Reformed authors will become available in a relatively short period of time. Among these are numerous works by pastors associated with the so-called Nadere Reformatie or “Further Reformation,” including multiple editions of Aegidius Francken’s Kern der Christelyke Leere, which served as a textbook at Calvin Theological Seminary in the nineteenth century. Below is a sampling of links to Reformed theologians with titles set aside to be digitized in the KB catalogue. Taken together, this short list alone represents over 500 digitized titles on the horizon.
Leiden Professors:
- Johannes Marckius (1656-1731) [16 works]
- Herman Witsius (1636-1708) [11 works]
- Salomon Van Til (1643-1713) [9 works]
- Johannes Wesselius (1671-1745) [14 works]
- Taco Hajo van den Honert (1666-1740) [13 works]
- Albert Schultens (1686-1750) [25 works]
- Johan van den Honert (1693-1758) [61 works]
- Bernhard De Moor (1709-1780) [15 works]
- Ewald Hollebeek (1719-1796) [15 works]
Utrecht Professors:
- Melchior Leydekker (1642-1721) [9 works]
- Herman Witsius (1636-1708) [11 works]
- Hermann Alexander Röell (1653-1718) [2 works]
- Hieronymus Simons van Alphen (1665-1742) [12 works]
- Friedrich Adolph Lampe (1683-1729) [18 works]
- Albertus Voget (1695-1771) [7 works]
- Willem van Irhoven (1698-1760) [7 works]
Franeker Professors:
- Campegius Vitringa, Sr (1659-1722) [13 works]
- Ruard Andala (1665-1727) [3 works]
- Herman Venema (1697-1787) [18 works]
Groningen Professors:
- Paulus Hulsius (1653-1712) [4 works]
- Antonius Driessen (1684-1748) [18 works]
- Cornelius van Velzen (1696-1752) [15 works]
- Daniel Gerdes (1698-1765) [10 works]
Nadere Reformatie Pastors:
- Jodocus van Lodenstein (1620-1677) [14 works]
- Franciscus Ridderus (1620-1683) [8 works]
- Willem Sluiter (1627-1673) [41 works]
- Jacobus Koelman (1631-1695) [18 works]
- Wilhelmus à Brakel (1635-1711) [18 works]
- Abraham Hellenbroek (1658-1731) [16 works]
- Jacobus Fruytier (1659-1731) [15 works]
- Bernardus Smytegelt (1665-1739) [16 works]
- Johan Verschuir (1680-1737) [5 works]
- Aegidius Francken (1699-1743) [15 works]
- Wilhelmus Schortinghuis (1700-1750) [7 works]
- Theodorus van der Groe (1705-1784) [13 works]
- Alexander Comrie (1706-1774) [13 works]
