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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: Marina P. LAZERKO (Mrs.), tel.: +375 (17) 284-14-41
Field of Activities: Research activity in the field of library and bibliography science, book history and information science; realization of scientific research in the area of information-and-library activity in cooperation with information centers and scientific libraries of the Republic of Belarus and foreign countries; creation of scientific documents' stock in accordance with the subject of scientific research realizing in the Republic of Belarus; carrying out the function of the republican depositary of documents on natural sciences; scientific and methodical management and coordination of libraries' activities at the research institutions of the NASB; operative information supply of needs of researchers and specialists of the NASB and other organizations with the use of modern means of automation and operating polygraph
Subdivisions: departments of acquisition; scientific documents processing; scientific systematization of documents; international relations; electronic resources; rare books and manuscripts; program and technical maintenance of scientific research; information supply of ecological problems; marketing; scientific organization of basic stock; service department; research department of library science; scientific-and-bibliographic department
Reading Rooms of: Periodicals, Natural Sciences, Engineering Sciences, the Humanities, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Reference Documents
Services: electronic delivery of documents; virtual reference service; xerography; binding; printout; scanning; record on a diskette or CD-R/CD-RW; search of the information in data bases via Internet according to the users' requests; 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: Information support of scientific research in the sphere of agricultural sciences and agro-industrial complex. Realization of information delivery services, organization of the direct access to the international and national information resources on agriculture and related branches. Formation, storage and use of information resources on agriculture and related branches. National center of the international information system of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Depositary Library of FAO documents, member of FAO AGRIS, AGLINET, and AgroWeb CEE international information systems and corporations
Subdivisions: departments of Library Resources, Information Services, FAO Center, Automation, Material and Technical Supplies; branches of Acquisitions and Serials, Cataloging, Information Resources, Personal Public Services, Document Delivery Services, Reference Services
Services: information retrieval in databases according to users' requests, document delivery services from other information centers, organization of subject exhibitions and topical collections of documents, editing of bibliographic lists of users, photocopying and scanning of documents form Library collection, creation and support of personal web pages of agrarian scientists in the Internet, realization of training coursers and consultations on information search for users
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