On 14 July, the National Library hosted a working session on the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled.
The main purpose of the Treaty is to overcome the "book hunger", a global situation when only a very small percentage of published works are presented in accessible formats in which they can be read by the visually impaired.
Presentations were made by Teresa Hackett, the EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, and Sania Battalova, the representative of the St. Petersburg State Library for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
The session was attended by Elena Dolgopolova, the first deputy director of the National Library of Belarus for user service and ideology, Tatiana Kuzminich, the deputy director of the National Library of Belarus for information resources, Elena Kubyshkina, the director of the Centralized System of Public Libraries of Minsk, and also representatives of the National Library of Belarus and Minsk public libraries.
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