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INFORMATION LETTER

The National Library of Belarus invites you to participate in the
19th International Bibliological Conference

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

Time frame: April 27–28, 2023

Mixed participation format:

• Involvement in person (Minsk, Niezaležnasci Ave. 116)
• Remote participation with video report or online presentation via videoconferencing

Topics for discussion:

• Handwritten booklore of Belarus;
• Francysk Skaryna and his followers – Belarusian printers and publishers of the 16^th – 18^th cc.;
• 500^th anniversary of the first edition of “The Song about the Bison” by Mikołaj Hussowczyk;
• 400^th anniversary of the Kuteino Epiphany Monastery;
• Early-printed editions of the 16^th – 18^th cc.;
• Belarusian book of the 19^th – 20^th cc.;
• 200^th anniversary of Vladislav Syrokomla’s birth;
• Historic libraries and development of librarianship in Belarus;
• Registration and description of Belarusian book artefacts;
• Modern realia of book culture;
• Belarusian book in domestic and foreign collections;
• Book art;
• Book in contemporary sociocultural and information environment;
• Contemporary bibliological schools, researches and conceptions;
• Personalities of Belarusian bibliology.

Working languages of the conference:
Belarusian, Russian, English.

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

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 20, 2023.

Format requirements for papers:

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 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, с. 15].
4. The summary in Russian and English, each should be up to 400 symbols (including spaces).

Requirements for video-reports:

• 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.

Requirements for report-presentation:

• 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 14, 2023.

Contact information:
Marina Valchak (for foreign participants).
Теl.: (+375 17) 293 27 64.
E-mail: ird@nlb.by

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