Electronic Library Development Department

Activities

The activities of the department are aimed at:

• development of the electronic library of the National Library of Belarus;
• ensuring the safety of the library documents;
• development of the most complete collection of national documents in electronic form.

Functions of the Department:

• providing quick access to electronic library documents;
• development of electronic thematic and specific collections as part of the electronic library;
• generation of documents in electronic form in storage and presentation formats in the electronic library;
• cooperation with domestic and foreign organizations and institutions for the electronic library development;
• organizational and methodological support of the electronic library.

Structure and staff

Head of the Department : Sergey Shtykh
(+375 17) 293 27 44 (int. 77 44)
E-mail: shtyh@nlb.by
Room 310

1. Digital Collection Development Section 
Head of the Section: Oksana Buichik
Тel.: (+375 17) 293 28 30 (int. 78 30)
E-mail: buychik@nlb.by 
Room 219

Specialists of the Section:
Тel.: (+375 17) 293 27 45 (int. 77 45)
Room 219

2. Formation of Electronic Documents 
Head of the Section: Natalya Marus
Тel.: (+375 17) 293 27 97 (int. 77 97)
E-mail: marus@nlb.by
Room 310

3. Section of Organizational and Methodological Support for the Formation of the Electronic Library
Head of the Section: Elena Dovnar 
Тel.: (+375 17) 293 28 58 (int. 78 58)
E-mail: press@nlb.by
Room 309

Specialists of the Section:
Tel: (+375 17) 293 25 86 (int. 75 86)
Room 309 

Information Resources

• Culture and Art: Electronic Collections of the National Library of Belarus
• Book of Belarus in the 14–18th Centuries 
  
• Electronic Archive of National Periodicals
• Electronic Library of Dissertations and Abstracts of Dissertations of the National Library of Belarus

Services

The department offers the services as follow:

• digitization and copying of audio recordings from the library collections: cassette tapes, vinyl disks, CDs, and saving data to user CD or flash card;
• scanning of printed publications and saving data to user CD or flash card;
• scanning of card catalogs of libraries, archives and other organizations for the needs of Retroconversion (creation of image-catalogs, digitization), and saving data to user CD or flash card.