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A new service in the reading rooms of the Library

A new service in the reading rooms of the Library
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In the reading rooms of the Library readers have a free of charge opportunity to search and download on their devices full texts of English-language books from the database eBook Collection (EBSCOhost).


The database eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) has more than 3.5 million items. It is permissible to download books on the following subjects:

  • art and architecture;
  • biographies and memoirs;
  • fiction;
  • political sciences;
  • social sciences.

Access to full-text electronic books that are downloaded on portable devices is available for up to 7 days.

It is possible to download e-books on your portable device (laptop, iPad, iPhone, iPod) from the database eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) in the Documents of International Organizations Reading Room, the Music and Audio Materials Reading Room and the Fine Arts Reading Room.

Attention! The user’s portable device must be with Internet access and the following sofware:

1. On a personal computer (laptop)

  • Microsoft.NET Framework 3.5 (or the latter version) with Service Pack 1;
  • Adobe Digital Editions (a program for reading of electronic books).

2. On the iPad, iPhone, iPod:

  • Bluefire Reader version 1.2 (or the latter version);
  • iTunes;
  • Adobe Digital Editions.

(If there are no these programs on a personal device, they are downloaded by the user from the Internet on their own).

Telephone: (+375 17) 293 27 34.

News

Students of the Belarusian State Academy of Music visited the National library

23 Apr 2024

On April 18, the students of the Belarusian State Academy of Music visited the National Library of Belarus as part of the environmental education and upbringing program. They got acquainted with the thematic book exhibition "Water is a wonderful gift of Nature" dedicated to World Water Day. The exposition is presented in the documents of international organizations reading room (room 207 g).

National Library of Belarus News

April 22–28, 1944. 19 weeks before Liberation

23 Apr 2024

A new project of the National Library of Belarus is dedicated to the Great Patriotic War – "Reading newspaper lines with your heart. On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders."
Every week from January to August 2024, the portal of the National Library publishes materials from newspapers of Soviet Belarus in 1944, reflecting the chronicle of news and events of that time.

Reading newspaper lines with your heart. To the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders