General reading room

General information

1st floor, room 105

The general reading room provides services to students of institutions of general secondary, vocational, secondary specialized, higher education, specialists with secondary, special secondary and higher education including bachelors, undergraduates, graduate students, candidates for a degree.

The reading room delivers documents from the main library stock and provides access to the deposit collection and electronic information resources.

The deposit collection

The deposit collection includes about 2 thousand references and encyclopedic publications on all fields of knowledge. Documents are available to all readers.

Access to electronic resources

• Electronic resources of the Library:
  • electronic catalog;
  • subject databases "Belarus: from past to present", "Chernobyl", "The History of Belarus", "Culture and Art of Belarus";
  • electronic library of theses and abstracts;
  • electronic archive of national periodicals;
  • electronic library;
  • CD library.
• corporate databases;
• licensed electronic information resources;
• the Internet.

Special equipment:

• wheelchair hoist;
• carrels for individual work. Available software: Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Fine Reader; the service is paid;
• microfilm reader;
• workbench equipped with a magnifying device to read flatbed texts (electronic magnifier) .

Additional services:

• photocopying and scanning of fragments of printed editions;
• copying of electronic information onto users’ data media;
• print of electronic information.

The opening hours of the reading room correspond to the opening hours of the Library.

Terms of Use

Contacts

Assistant librarian
Tel.: (+375 17) 293 27 01 (internal number: 77 01)
Head of general service section
Tel.: (+375 17) 293 27 01 (internal number: 77 01)
Head of the Library service department
Tel.: (+375 17) 293 27 03 (internal number: 77 03)