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The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus has the ramified network of scientific libraries conducting scale work on information maintenance of scientific, scientific and technical and innovation activities as of Academy's organizations, and scientific organizations and higher educational institutions from a whole country. The main place in the academic library network is occupied with the Yakub Kolas Central Scientific Library of NAS of Belarus, which has 25 branches in various organizations of the Academy of Sciences, is the republican depository of the documents in the natural sciences, has three-million assembly of the national scientific documents and the largest fund of the foreign scientific literature in Belarus. The central branch scientific library on information-librarian maintenance of agriculture in the country is the Belarusian Agricultural Library of NAS of Belarus being also the National centre of the international information system for the agricultural sciences and technology of FAO (AGRIS/CARIS), participant of international AgroWeb Network in Central and Eastern Europe AgroWeb CEE and branch national depository of the literature on agriculture.
Founded 1925
Director: Cand. Hist. Sc. Natalya Yu. BERYOZKINA (Mrs.), tel.: +375 (17) 284-14-28
Deputy Director for Science: Oksana M. DROZD (Mrs.), tel.: +375 (17) 284-14-12
Scientific Secretary: Nataliya O. ZAYTSEVA (Mrs.), tel.: +375 (17) 284-14-41
Field of Activities: Research in the field of library and bibliography science, book history and information activities. Creation of scientific documents' stock according to subject of research activities in the Republic of Belarus. Informational supply of scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and other institutions of the Republic of Belarus
Subdivisions: departments of acquisition; scientific cataloguing; international relations; electronic resources; rare books and manuscripts; information and analytical maintenance of scientific research work; information maintenance of ecological problems; reference and information; scientific organization of basic stock; library research; service department; 25 branches in Academy's institutions
Reading Rooms of: Periodicals, Natural Sciences, Technical Sciences, the Humanities
Services: Electronic delivery of documents, photocopying, library binding, printing, scanning of documents, record on a diskette and CD-R/CD-RW, providing the library users with Internet access, search of information in data basis according to users' order, indexing of documents on UDC, etc.
Founded 1960
Director: Valentina V. YURCHENKO (Mrs.), tel.: +375 (17) 212-15-61
Deputy Director for Science: Oksana E. GOROBETS (Mrs.), tel.: +375 (17) 212-07-20
Field of Activities: Implements information provision of agricultural enterprises and organizations, individual users. Provides information delivery services. Organizes direct access to the international and national information resources on agriculture, food and forestry. Forms, keeps and uses information resources on agriculture, food and forestry. Disposes of the most representative collection of agricultural literature in the country. Depositary Library of FAO documents. National center of the International information system of UN FAO AGRIS/CARIS
Subdivisions: departments of library resources; information services; scientific and technical information; automation; material-technical and economic supplies; sections of acquisitions and serials; cataloging; book depository; public services; document delivery services; reference services; affiliate branch in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus; AGRIS/CARIS Center
Services: Information retrieval in databases according to users requests, documents delivery from other information centers, organization of subject exhibitions, selection of subject set of documents, revision of bibliographic lists of users, photocopying and scanning of documents form Library collection, creation and supporting of agricultural scientists and educators personal web pages in the Internet, training coursers and consultations on information search for users
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