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INFORMATION LETTER

The National Library of Belarus invites you to participate
in the 21^st International Bibliological Conference!

Organizers:
The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus
The National Library of Belarus

Time frame:

April 17-18, 2025

Participation formats:
The conference will be held in hybrid format: in-person (Minsk, Nezalezhnasti Ave. 116) and remote participation.

• 535^th birthday anniversary of Belarusian and East Slavic first printer Francysk Skaryna (around 1490-1551);
• 500 years since publication of Francysk Skaryna’s “Apostol” (Vilnius, 1525);
• 450 years since publication of Pyotr Mstislavets’s “Gospel book” (Vilnius, 1575);
• 430^th birthday anniversary of priest, famous Belarusian social and religious figure, publicist, writer-polemicist Athanasius of Brest (around 1595-1648);
• 375^th birthday anniversary of Belarusian printer and engraver Maksim Voschanka (1650s -1708);
• 230^th anniversary from the Memorial day of the Saint George Konissky (1717-1795);
• Belarusian printing houses and publishers of 16^th – 18^th cc.;
• Belarusian manuscripts;
• Old Believer handwritten and printed books;
• Book collections of Church hierarchs in history and culture;
• Belarusian book of 19^th – 20^th cc.;
• Historical libraries and development of librarianship in Belarus;
• Registration and description of Belarusian book artefacts;
• Modern realia of book culture and book art;
• Belarusian book in domestic and foreign collections;
• Book in museum space;
• Book in modern sociocultural and information environment;
• Personalities of Belarusian bibliology.

Working languages: Belarusian, Russian, English.

Terms of participation:
To take part in the conference as a speaker or attendee, please, register online on the website www.nlb.by.

Meals, lodging and transportation fees are paid by participants.

Requirements:
The collection of conference papers is planned for publication. We accept original papers of scientific and applied value in the Belarusian, Russian and English languages. The organizing committee is authorized to select papers for presentation at the conference and publication. Please, submit your paper to e-mail redkaja@nlb.by not later than March 1, 2025.

1. The author’s / coauthor’s full name, the full name of organization, city, country; the full name of a person who will present the paper at the conference, the paper title.
2. The paper with the annotation, drawings and enclosures should be up to 6 pages, format А4, Times New Roman, type size 13, 1.5 line spacing, file type DOC, DOCX or RTF (Microsoft Word).
3. The reference list should be placed after the main body of the paper in alphabetical order. The references should be put in square brackets, for example [3, p. 15].
4. The summary in Russian and English, each should be up to 400 symbols (including spaces).

• video orientation (landscape mode);
• video recording should be made with the use of a microphone, with a good lighting and without any additional noises;
• time duration is up to 10 minutes.

• slide show with the narration should have a slide show time setting;
• the first slide of the presentation should have the name of the conference, title of the paper and author’s name;
• time duration is up to 10 minutes.

Please, submit your file with video-report or presentation to e-mail redkaja@nlb.by not later than April 3, 2025.

Contact information:
Galina Kireeva, Tatiana Kornilova, Maria Shopina (for participants from the Republic of Belarus)
Tel.: +375 17 293 26 12, +375 17 293 27 83, +375 17 293 27 81.
E-mail: redkaja@nlb.by

Anna Kovalenko (for foreign participants)
Теl.: +375 17 293 27 64,
E-mail: ird@nlb.by