I quarter
February
Meeting with the participation of directors of Belarusian university libraries within the framework of the actions arranged by the Council of Libraries for Information Interaction (2 February, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the National Library of Belarus)
19th Minsk International Book Fair "Books of Belarus" (8–12 February, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, National Exhibition Center BelExpo)
Round table “A book and reading in the context of the electronic environment development” (9 February, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the National Library of Belarus)
March
Round table dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Doctor of Historical Sciences, laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Belarus (1994) G.Y. Golenchenko (23 March, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the National Library of Belarus )
The All-Russian scientific-and-practical conference "Library collections in the digital era: traditional and electronic resources, acquisition and use” (23 March, the Russian Federation, Saint-Petersburg)
Scientific and practical conference of the Russian Association of Electronic Libraries (26 March, the Russian Federation, Moscow, the Russian State Library)
Seminar "Formation of authority records in the system of corporate cataloging" (27–30 March, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the National Library of Belarus)
II quarter
April
International scientific and practical seminar “Bibliotherapy as an innovative direction in library activity” (5–6 April, the Republic of Belarus, Mogilev, the Mogilev State Library College named after A.S. Pushkin)
Seminar-training "Formation of authority records in the system of corporate cataloging" (17–20 April, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the National Library of Belarus)
International conference "Belarusian library community: contemporary condition and prospects for development" devoted to the 20th anniversary from the date of the establishment of the professional public association "Belarusian Library Association" (25 April, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the National Library of Belarus)
19th International special exhibition and the congress "TIBO-2012" (26–28 April, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the Football Arena)
Seminar “Copyright and Related rights” (25 April, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the National Library of Belarus)
May
Scientific-practical workshop "Local history of libraries: territory of great opportunities and prospects" (15 May, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the National Library of Belarus)
The annual scientific-practical conference "Spiritual revival of society and the Orthodox book" within the framework of the 18th International Cyril and Methodius lecture (16–18 May, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk)
Seminar "Eurasian patent information system (EPATIS) is a searching tool for patent information" (30 May, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the National Library of Belarus)
2nd International scientific and practical conference "Berestie book collections: problems and prospects of research" (31 May – 3 June, the Republic of Belarus, Brest, Ruzhany)
June
19th International Conference "Libraries and information resources in the modern world of science, culture, education and business" (Crimea-2012) (2–10 June, Ukraine, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Sudak)
20th Scientific Conference “Saint-Petersburg and Belarusian culture” (14–15 June, the Russian Federation, Saint-Petersburg, the National Library of Russia)
III quarter
July
Session of the General Assembly of the International Consortium EIFL (Electronic Information For Libraries) (3–5 July, the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan)
August
World Library and Information Congress: the 78th General conference and the IFLA Council session (10–21 August, Finland, Helsinki)
September
The Day of the Belarusian writing. The traveling exhibition “The Poetic Salon”, devoted to national poets Y. Kupala, Y. Kolas, M. Tank (1 September, the Republic of Belarus, Vitebsk Region, Glubokoye)
International congress “The National library as a phenomenon of culture” (5–7 September, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the National Library of Belarus)
8th International bibliological reading “Historical book collections in time and space” (12–14 September, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the National Library of Belarus)
International seminar "New electronic information resources for science and education" (19 September, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the National library of Belarus)
Experts’ Meeting on Culture Policy “Contacts between People” (26 September, Belgium, Brussels)
Forum of librarians from the CIS countries "The CIS libraries: integration, innovation and access for all" (26–28 September, Kazakhstan, Astana)
International scientific-practical conference “The 6th Masherovskiye reading” (27–28 September, the Republic of Belarus, Vitebsk, the P. Masherov Vitebsk State University)
IV quarter
Working meeting of the Library Assembly of Eurasia (the CIS member-countries, the Non-Commercial Partnership Library Assembly of Eurasia)
Seminar “Results of the Virtual reading room activity of the National Library of Belarus in 2012 and plans for 2013” (the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the National Library of Belarus)
Seminar “Information support of technological innovations” (the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the National Library of Belarus)
Seminar “Information resources to maintain innovative activity” (the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the National Library of Belarus)
October
First Regional Conference of the Eastern Partnership Culture Programme (8–9 October, Georgia, Tbilisi)
Seminar-presentation “EastView information resources: new products and new possibilities for libraries” (10 October, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the national Library of Belarus)
64th Frankfurt International Book Fair (10–14 October, Germany, Frankfurt am Main)
Seminar “Presentation of the company Ex Libris” (17 October, the Republic of Belarus,Minsk, the National Library of Belarus)
International seminar "New projects of Scientific electronic library eLIBRARY" (25 October, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the National Library of Belarus)
International scientific and practical conference "Integration of disabled people into socio-cultural and information space: tasks and functions of libraries" (25–26 October, the Russian Federation, St. Petersburg)
National Information-Library Week INFOLIB-2012 (29 October – 2 November, Uzbekistan, Tashkent, the National Library of Uzbekistan named after Alisher Navoi)
November
International conference and exhibition “LIBCOM-2012: Information technologies, computer systems and publishing production for libraries” (12–16 November, the Russian Federation, Moscow Region, Khimki)
Seminar "Electronic information resources and services of leading foreign publishers and aggregators" (14 November, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the National Library of Belarus)
11th International conference “The development of informatization and the state system of scientific and technical information (RINTI-2012)” (15 November, the Republic of Belarus, The Joint Institute of Informatics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus)
International scientific conference "Return to the past: a phenomenon of Professor L. Vladimirov and promotion of his ideas" (15–16 November, Lithuania, Vilnius)
Round table "Book culture of the Orthodox Church in Belarus" (20 November, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the National Library of Belarus)
11th scientific-practical conference “LIBNET-2012: Participants and users of the National information-library center LIBNET” (November, the Russian Federation, Zvenigorod)
Seminar “The urgent issues of book monuments processing“ (the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the National Library of Belarus)
December
Round table "Open access resources and scientific communications" (6 December, the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, the National Library of Belarus)
The All-Russian forum of public libraries (December, the Russian Federation, Saint-Petersburg)