The Fundamental library of the Belarusian State University (FL BSU) has been the Coordination and Methodical Center (CMC) for libraries of institutions of higher education of the Republic of Belarus for many decades.

History

    The function of providing methodological and advisory assistance to the university libraries of the republic was assigned to the FL BSU in the early 1960s. The FL BSU initiated the creation of the Republican Scientific and Methodical Library Commission (RNMBK) under the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of the BSSR. The commission was established by the order of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education of the BSSR No. 53 of November 5, 1973. and acted for 16 years, performing the function of coordination and methodological support of libraries of educational institutions of all levels in the republic. 

    In 1974 the Library of BSU became a supporting library for the libraries of the Minsk region, a scientific and methodical department was created. In 1975, the function of the Republican Methodical Center (RMC) for coordinating the activity of the libraries of higher educational institutions and colleges was formally assigned to the FL BSU, and work began: the documents defining the tasks and functions of the libraries of universities and colleges of the republic are being developed and approved; a system for reporting libraries of higher education institutions and colleges to the Republican Methodical Center; a fund of methodical literature on library science, bibliography and related fields is being created; a system of advanced training for the staff of the FL BSU and libraries of universities and colleges is being organized through republican and city scientific and practical conferences, seminars, business trips with the purpose of sharing work experience, production training, etc .; complex inspections of the work of libraries of higher educational institutions on separate areas of their activity are organized.

    70-90-s - the years of formation, years of intensive activity of the RMC. Independently and jointly with the Ministry of Higher Education of the BSSR, the republican and international events are held, in which representatives of the universities libraries of Russia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan and other republics of the Soviet Union take part: scientific and practical seminars "Improving the forms of service of readers in the university library" (1974) "Acquisition of library book collections", "Status and prospects of development of reference and information work of the university" (1976), "Organization of book collections of university libraries and introduction of a depository storage "(1978).

    In 1981 the library participates in the comprehensive study "Rational allocation and use of library resources in the country", performed by the State Library of the USSR of V.I. Lenin. During the year, data on the development of the network, the number and composition of readers of university libraries and libraries of secondary special educational institutions of the republic were analyzed and transmitted to the GBL of the BSSR.

    Systematic checks of the organization of work of libraries of high schools of the BSSR are carried out. In 1985, as part of the Central Scientific Methodical Library Commission of the USSR, the staff of the FL BSU participated in the comprehensive audit of libraries in Kazakhstan.

    In 1992, on the basis of the decision of the collegium of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, the methodological guidance of the libraries of higher educational institutions was maintained at the Fundamental Library of BSU, and the methodical management of the libraries of secondary specialized educational institutions of the Republic of Belarus was transferred to the Republican Scientific Pedagogical Library (today the Scientific and Pedagogical Library of the Institution "Main Information and Analytical Center of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus ").

    In 1993, the status of the Fundamental Library of the Belarusian State University as the main methodical center for the libraries of higher educational institutions of Belarus was once again confirmed by the order of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus No. 315 of 12.11.1993 "On libraries of higher educational institutions".

    In 2014, the status of the republican coordinating and methodical center of the network of libraries of higher education institutions of the Republic of Belarus was defined in the Law on Library Science in the Republic of Belarus. Since 3.02.2017 the FL BSU carries out coordination and methodological activity on the basis of the Code of the Republic of Belarus on Culture of July 20, 2016 No. 413-3.