On April 26, 2018 the National Library Awareness Day was held in Brest under the auspices of the Erasmus+ LNSS Project (Library Network Support Services: modernizing libraries in Armenia, Moldova and Belarus through library staff development and reforming libraries modernizing libraries in Armenia, Moldova and Belarus through library staff development and reforming libraries).
The 2nd Library Awareness Day in Belarus was organized at the Brest State Technical University, and as the preceding event was demonstrated the potential of libraries for the development of life-long learning, as well as for the creation of a positive image of libraries in society.
There were three places organized for students, lecturers and librarians at the Brest State Technical University. The experts from libraries of Belarusian State University, Public Administration Academy under the President of Republic of Belarus, Yanka Kupala Grodno State University, Brest State Technical University, I.S. Lupinovich Belarusian Agricultural Library of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Brest Region Scientific-Technical Library, M. Gorky Brest Region Library and the representatives of Crete University and Transylvania University spoke about the current direction and developments of the libraries activities at those places.
Reports:
- The individual strategy to promote academic staff publications in the world information space. Kulazhanka Uladzimir
- Russian Science Index Citation – an effective tool for promotion publication of scientists. Sianko Maya
- UDC for researchers: functionality and application. (Instructions). Varanovich Svyatlana
- From OPAC to Digital Library: new facilities of the Library Automation System IRBIS. Varanovich Svyatlana
- Systems of author identifications and scientific citation databases. Bagdanava Anna
- The role of scientific library in organization of the main processes at university:state and prospects of improving (through the eхample of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno). Fleita Hanna
Within the framework of the event, there was the exhibition of the books published by Belarusian universities – members of the Erasmus+ LNSS project.
At the end of the event the representatives of universities visited Brest fortress.