From September 13th to October 7th, the thematic exhibition “Modern library technologies” timed to the Libraries’ Day (September 15th) runs in the National Library of Belarus (in the circular corridor on the 3rd floor).
For centuries, the role and the duties of libraries have remained immutable – to be an exclusive source of preservation of knowledge and information. Trying not to be behind the times, libraries improve user service and use modern information technologies which not only create favorable conditions for the competition between libraries and the Internet, but also provide new opportunities for library and bibliographic activity.
The thematic book exhibition "Modern library technologies" is intended to show the place and the current state of libraries in new information environment. It presents editions about the latest global information technologies which are used in library activity, and also about domestic and foreign experience in the adaptation of libraries to the new conditions of digital era.
Nearly 150 documents published in last few years in Russian, Belarusian, English, French and German languages are on display.
The exposition consists of ten sections: “The library and information society”, “From the past to the future…”, “WEB technologies in libraries”, “Digital libraries”, “Information service”, “Library acquisition and cataloguing”, “Libraries and education”, “The library profession”, “The foreign experience in librarianship”, “The mission of libraries”. Books on display are about the place and the role of libraries in information society, the history of their creation and development, the use of Internet resources in library business, digital libraries and digitization of library collections, innovation technologies in information user service and library processes, foreign libraries and their experience.
The offered exposition will be interesting to professionals and useful to library employees who are aspiring to the permanent competence and professional relevance.
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