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Special Collections Service Department

Activity

Main tasks of the department:

  • Organizing the information and library services for library users
  • Providing the reference and bibliographic services for users
  • Generating subsidiary funds of the department's reading rooms
  • Ensuring the safety of library documents and creating the necessary conditions for their use
  • Generating information culture of users
  • Carrying out the scientific and methodological work on the department's activity profile.

Department functions:

  • Proving service of users with documents from the main library fund, specialized subsidiary funds of the department and the received under the interlibrary subscription
  • Providing access to electronic information resources;
  • Compiling specialized subsidiary funds, their organization, rational placement, accounting
  • Conducting systematic work to ensure the safety of funds
  • Consulting users on the operation with information resources
  • Studying information needs and development of information culture of users
  • Providing additional services to library users according to the Price list
  • Studying and implementing new high-performance information technologies, principles of scientific organization of work
  • Participating in the library's research and methodological activities on the issues related to information and library services for users
  • Participating in arrangement for the evenings and meetings with scientists, cultural figures and artists (together with other departments of the library)
  • Systematic informing of users about new arrivals to subsidiary funds, organization of thematic and anniversary exhibitions in the department's reading rooms, compiling of informational materials.

    Structure and staff

    Head of department: 
    Tel.: (+375 17) 293 27 02 (internal 77 02)
    E-mail: specfond@nlb.by
    Room 106a

    1. Periodicals service section
    Head of section: Kolomiets Elena Viktorovna
    Tel.:(+375 17) 293 25 87(internal 75 87)

    2. Specialized Collections Service Section
    Head of section: Yakubovskaya Tatyana Viktorovna
    Tel.:(+375 17) 293 27 18(internal 77 18)

    3. Musical Arts Service Section
    Head of section: Haiduk Alina Viktorovna
    Tel.: (+375 17) 293 27 89 (internal 77 89)

    4. Fine Arts and Entertainment Service Section
    Head of section: Matusevich Natalia
    Tel.: (+375 17) 293 27 91 (internal 77 91)

    The department has reading rooms for: