On February 27, the international scientific and practical seminar “Library as a social and communicative institute of society” was held in the Pushkin Minsk Regional Library. The event was attended by the staff of our library.
The seminar was organized by the Science Department of the Pushkin Minsk Regional Library in cooperation with the Department of Cultural Studies and Psychological and Pedagogical Disciplines of the Institute of Advanced Training and Retraining of Personnel of the Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts.
The event brought together real professionals in their field, librarians from Belarus and Russia. So, among the participants were our colleagues from the Leningrad Regional Universal Scientific Library, the Don State Public Library (Rostov-on-Don), the Centralized Library System of Pskov, the Pushkin National Library of the Republic of Mordovia (Saransk), the Central Scientific Library named after Ya. Kolas of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the Minsk Regional Central Library and its branch of the Shershun Integrated Rural Library, the Borisov Central District Library named after I.H. Kolodeev, the Brest Central City Library named after A. S. Pushkin and many others. The seminar was held in the atmosphere of a friendly meeting of like-minded people who discussed issues of current library practices, increasing the information and cultural requirements of readers and users, identifying new forms and methods of library work in modern conditions of library development, issues of implementing socio-cultural projects and others. Within the framework of the seminar, a round table "library as a multi-format art platform" was held, the participants of which discussed topical issues of gallery, exhibition and excursion activities of libraries, increasing the effectiveness of these areas in Belarusian and Russian bookshops.
The seminar was attended by employees of the National Library of Belarus, who spoke at the section “Communication practices for the promotion of books, reading, libraries.” In November 2023, the cultural community of Belarus celebrated the 100th anniversary of the formation of the All-Belarusian Literary Association of Poets and Writers “Maladnyak”. For the anniversary of the association, the library, together with its partners, has been implementing a large-scale project “On the wave of time, throughout life” for five years. Yulia Amosova, chief bibliographer of the information and analytical department, told about the most interesting and valuable pages of the resource. She drew the attention of Russian colleagues to the possibility of using the Russian-language version of the project.
At the end of the breakout session, Irina Kuketa, chief librarian of the Research Department of Library Science, shared with Belarusian and Russian colleagues the long-term experience of the National Library of Belarus in studying the history of librarianship in our country. She introduced the audience to the electronic information resource “The history of librarianship of Belarus”, revealed the contents of two of its collections and invited everyone interested to cooperate on its content.
The scientific and practical seminar was held at a high level, presented a wide range of topics and projects, and gave answers to questions that arise daily during our work. The National Library of Belarus thanks its colleagues for organizing the event, its relevance and good results!
Photos were provided by the Minsk Regional Library named after A. S. Pushkin
The material was provided by the information and analytical department and the Research Department of Library Science.
