Copying services

The National Library of Belarus provides the copying services as follow:

• photocopying fragments of print documents;
• scanning fragments of print documents;
• copying information from databases and the Internet;
• copying audio files.

The following  documents are to be scanned only for safekeeping:

• circulation documents prepared for binding and restoration, with physical damages, fragile paper, binding thickness of more than 5 centimeters and which do not open 180 degrees, regardless of the year of publication;
• circulation documents issued before 1900, newspapers and printed music published before 1946 and engravings, regardless of the year of publication;
• full pages of printed publications, the size of which exceeds the A3 format;
• manuscripts, rare books and early printed books (except for rare publications of the XIX–XX cc.).

Copying information is an additional service and is performed on a fee basis in accordance with the Price list.