Employees of the Belarusian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation took part in the Second International Scientific and Practical Conference «State and Prospects for the Development of the Interstate System of Scientific and Technical Information»

The Second International Scientific and Practical Conference «State and Prospects for the Development of the Interstate System of Scientific and Technical Information» is being held in Minsk and Vitebsk from August 13 to 15, 2024.

The conference was organized by the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus, the Republican Scientific and Technical Library, the State Public Scientific and Technical Library of Russia, and the National Library Association «Libraries of the Future».

The participants of the conference were greeted by the Chairman of the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus S.V. Shlychkov, the scientific director of the State Public Scientific and Technical Library of Russia Ya.L. Shrayberg, the deputy director general of the National Library of Belarus – director for information resources and user services V.V. Pshibytko, the director general of the State Public Scientific and Technical Library of Russia A.S. Karaush, the director of the Republican Scientific and Technical Library (1999 – 2024) R.N. Sukhorukova (the greeting was read by the director of the Republican Scientific and Technical Library E.P. Monchik).

The plenary session featured Ya.L.Shraiberg with a report on «Formation and development of state policy in the field of scientific and technical information and scientific and technical libraries», E.P.Monchik with a report on «Main areas of activity of the Republican Scientific and Technical Library to ensure the effective functioning of the State System of Scientific and Technical Information (GSNTI) of the Republic of Belarus», Director General of the B.N.Yeltsin Presidential Library, St. Petersburg Yu.S.Nosov (via video link) with a report on «Scientific and technical heritage of Russia in the collections and projects of the Presidential Library» and others.

The conference was attended by Deputy Director of the Belarusian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation G.S.Zholnerkevich and Head of the Department for Preservation and Accounting of Archive Documents M.A.Mikhailova.

The conference will end on August 15, 2024 in Vitebsk.