Conference program

Topics for discussion:

• centennial timeline of the National Library of Belarus collection;
• book artefacts collection of the National Library of Belarus;
• 500th anniversary of the first book published in the historic Belarusian lands;
• Francysk Skaryna and his successors – Belarusian publishers of the 16th – 18th centuries;
• Belarusian manuscripts;
• early-printed editions dated back to the 16th – 18th centuries;
• Belarusian book dated back to the 19th – 20th centuries;
• present-day realities of book culture;
• historical libraries and development of librarianship in Belarus;
• Belarusian book in domestic and foreign collections;
• book art;
• record-keeping and description of Belarusian book artefacts;
• book in modern sociocultural and information environment;
• modern bibliological schools, researches and conceptions;
• personalities of Belarusian bibliology.