Since January 1, 2001, in accordance with an agreement between the BSU FL and the IMF, the BSU Fundamental Library began to form the depository fund of the International Monetary Fund.

The IMF Depository Fund consists of different types of publications:

• by physical (material) type:
  printed publications (books and periodicals), electronic documents.
• by the intended purpose:
  scientific, reference, official, informational publications.
• by the language aspect:
  publications in English.
• by thematic aspect:
  publications on the world economy, finance, economic statistics, macroeconomics, foreign economic relations, insurance, international trade, shadow economy, taxation, market economy, socio-economic development, country studies, etc.
• by chronology:
  publications from 2001 to the present.

The size of the collection: about 1,000 publications, including books and electronic publications.

Fund Holder: Service Department of the Faculty of International Relations (20 Leningradskaya Str., off. 602, 603).

The publications of the fund are contained in: Electronic catalog of BSU FL.

Where can I get acquainted with the publications of the fund: in the information resource room and in the foreign information resources room of the Service Department (20 Leningradskaya Str., off. 602, 603).

Who can get acquainted with the publications of the fund: the fund is available to users not only of the BSU, but of the entire republic.

Subsidiary Fund - the fund of the following fund holders of the BSU FL:

• Department of Information Service of the Educational Process;
• Department of Information Services for Scientific Research;
• Service Department of the Faculty of Law;
• Service Department of the Faculty of Chemistry;
• Service Department of Faculties of Philology and Economics;
• Service Department of the Faculties of Radiophysics and Computer Technologies, Biology and Social and Cultural Communications;
• Service Department of the Faculty of International Relations;
• Service Department for Faculties of Journalism and Philosophy and Social Sciences;
• Department of Humanitarian and Educational Work and Popularization of Unique Books;
• Scientific and Methodical Department;
• Information Resources Acquisition Department;
• Department of Information Resources Cataloguing and Support of the Reference and Search Service;
• Directorate;
• Libraries of Offices and Departments of BSU.

The Fund of Rare and Valuable Publications, which is part of the cultural heritage of the Republic of Belarus, is an integral part of the unified library fund of the Fundamental Library.

The Fund of Rare and Valuable Publications is formed in order to implement the memorial function of the BSU FL by accumulating, permanently storing and recording publications of exceptional value or outstanding historical, scientific and cultural significance.

All publications that are included in the Fund of Rare and Valuable Publications are subject to a special regime of storage and use.

Fund Holder: Department of Humanitarian and Educational Work and Popularization of Old Printed Books

Fund Volume: about 26,000 items of storage of printed publications: books, brochures, continuing editions, magazines, newspapers 

Coverage Period: from the XVI century to the present

Fund Content

The Fund of Rare and Valuable Publications is a collection of domestic and foreign documents published before 1945, as well as historical-book collections formed from publications of a later period in Russian and foreign languages and includes the following collections:

• manuscripts;
• old printed editions (editions of the domestic civil press before 1825 and foreign ones before 1800, editions of the Cyrillic press);
• revolutionary democratic literature of the period of the First Russian revolution of 1905-1907;
• books of the first years of Soviet State (1918-1921);
• banned by censorship and illegal literature before 1917;
• editions of the times of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945);
• publications returned from the special store department;
• the first and lifetime editions of the classics of Russian and foreign literature;
• the first and lifetime editions of scientists and cultural figures;
• publications with autographs of people famous in literature, science, public life;
• publications with autographs of the authors as a gift to the BSU FL;
• reproduced (reprinted and facsimile) publications;
• samples of publications that were issued by well-known publishers;
• the best examples of publishing products of the XIX-early XX century (original printing method, font, material, etc.);
• publications with proprietary provenances of the XIX-beginning XX centuries;
• miniature editions.

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Where can I get acquainted with the publications of the fund: in the room of special collections (4, Nezalezhnosti Ave., office 229)

Who can get acquainted with the publications of the fund: any reader of the BSU Fundamental Library

In which catalogues the editions of the fund are reflected: in the Electronic Catalogue in the databases "Books", "Rare Books", "Articles from Magazines of the 19th century", full-text documents - in the Electronic Library of BSU.

Fund Holder: Department of Information Service of the Educational Process

Fund Volume: about 259,972 items of printed publications: books, brochures, continuing publications, magazines, newspapers, atlases, technical normative legal acts.

Coverage period: 1937 to present

Fund Content: the subsidiary fund of the information service department of the educational process contains educational, scientific, popular science, reference publications on natural, mathematical, technical, agricultural, medical, socio-political and social and humanitarian sciences.

Fund Structure:

• the fund of loan department of educational literature with closed access;
• the fund of the student reading room with open access;
• the fund of the hall of information resources of the Faculty of Geography and Geoinformatics with closed access;
• the fund of the information resources hall of the Institute of Additional Education with closed access;
• the fund of the Library of China of RCIS with open access.

Where can I get acquainted with the publications of the fund:

• the Loan Department of Educational Literature (4 Nezavisimosti Ave., room 313);
• in the Student Reading Room (4 Nezavisimosti Ave., 4, room 313);
• in the Hall of Information Resources of the Faculty of Geography and Geoinformatics (16 Leningradskaya Str., room 122);
• in the Hall of information Resources of the Institute of Additional Education (25 Akademicheskaya str., room 200)
• the Library of China of RCIS (11 Revolutsionnaya str., room 206)

Who can get acquainted with the publications of the fund: any reader of the BSU Fundamental Library 

but the priority in providing textbooks from the loan fund of educational literature is given to students of the Historical, Mechanical-Mathematical, Physical Faculties, the Faculty of Geography and Geoinformatics, the Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, from the fund of the Hall of Information Resources of the Institute of Additional Education – to students of the Institute of Additional Education.

In which catalogues the editions of the fund are reflected: in the Electronic Catalogue in the databases "Books", "Periodicals", full-text documents - in the Electronic Library of BSU.