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Digital Libraries Initiatives
in Belarus
Liudmila Kiriukhina,
Deputy Director of the National Library of
Belarus; email: [email protected]
Piotr Lapo,
Director of the Belarusian State University
Library, President of the Belarusian Library
Association email: [email protected]
Republic of Belarus
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Territory 207,000 km2
Population
9,990,400
70% of population are urban
Belarus is divided into six regions
Belarusian and Russian are official state
languages
Minsk - the capital of Belarus
The distance from Minsk to Warsaw is 500 km, to Moscow 700 km, to Berlin - 1060 km, to Vienna - 1300 km.
Belarusian Libraries
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The National Library of Belarus
7 Republican research libraries
6 Oblast (regional) libraries
4,725 Public libraries
4,362 Academic libraries
450 Special libraries of industrial enterprises
170 Medical libraries
100 Agricultural libraries
26 Libraries of the National Academy of
Sciences of Belarus
12 Sport libraries
Belarusian Libraries
 11,5
thousand libraries
 250 mln. documents
 6 mln. readers
 180 mln. documents provided for
readers annually
The National Library of Belarus
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Founded in 1922
About 8,000,000 items of keeping in 50 languages
3,000,000 documents provided for readers annually
500,000 national documents and Belarusica
90,000 rare and manuscripts
400,000 items of special collections (notes,
audiomaterials, maps, images)
Staff – 560 people
180 personal computers united by LAN
above 1,000,000 records in OPAC
NLB New Building
 Stocks
for 14,000,000 items
 2,000 readers’ places
 Conference-hall (500 places)
 Staff – 1,000 people
NLB DL Projects
 International Projects
– Under the aegis of UNESCO
 DL of manuscripts (200 documents)
 DL of the Belarusian heraldry (1,000 images)
 DL “Radzivilliana” (Memory of Belarus)
– Thanks to support of the USA Embassy in
Belarus
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DL “Music heritage of Belarus” (10,000
gramophone records and tapes)
Other DL Projects
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International
– VirLib
– Open Archives Initiative
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Local
– Portal of the Republican Scientific Medical
Library (http://www.med.by/)
– DL of the Belarusian State Medical
University Library
Virlib Project
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Participants:
– The Higher Technical School in Osnabruck
(Germany)
– The Belarusian State University
– The Belarusian State Economic University
– The Belarusian State University of
Informatics and Radioelectronics
Electronic Belarus
(2003-2005)
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Has Status of a National State Program
 Goals:
– Development of the republican
telecommunications network
– Creation of the National Center of
Digitalization (special collections, rare books,
national prints, etc.)
– Development of the National corporate
system of electronic documents delivery