The international scientific-practical conference The Archives and Museums as Institutions of Social Memory officially opened in the National Library, on May 27.
Alexander Kokhanovsky, dean of the Faculty of History of the Belarusian State University, Viktor Kurash, director of the Archives and Records Management Department of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus, Alexander Susha, deputy director of the National Library of Belarus for research and publishing activity, and Ilya Baranov, Second Secretary of the Russian Embassy to Republic of Belarus, made welcoming address to the conference.
The plenary session heard the reports on:
Cultural heritage: a movement from social memory to social activity (Alexander Susha, deputy director of the National Library of Belarus, PhD);
Archives, museums and libraries as a repository of the documented collective memory of the nations (Mikhail Shumeiko, head of the Source Study Department at the Faculty of History of the BSU, PhD, Assoc. Prof);
Archival theory on the verge of change (Igor Kiselev, Ph.D, member of the editorial board of the journal Otechestvennyje arkhivy, laureate of Klyuchevsky Award of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences);
The National Archives of Malta: from public documents to public memory (Charles J. Farrugia, President of the European Branch of the International Council on Archives, Dr).
The conference includes four breakout sessions: Documentary heritage as an information resource of society, Keepers and users of information: problems of interrelationship and interaction, Digital transformation and memory institutions and Archives, museums, libraries: the common and different in their work.
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