[000:00:00;00] it was not up to the libraries that the arrif of reality crashed in 2002. while the stock treasures were huddled in six publications in minsk and even behind bars, and in order to get admission to the syllable one had to crowd in lines for weeks, the new sovereign belarus began to create its own symbols, proud and monumental. the futuristic house in which the national word lives, on behalf of the head of state, was fought without skimping on resources and finances. for their native language. this will be the appropriate port where the ships of knowledge will pass. national library will become a symbol of a sovereign and enlightened belarus and we will build it as a whole country. in this place there was an old village with dilapidated houses, all of which

were destined for demolition. certainly. there was no equipment, books were carried by hand from the storage room to the reading rooms, plus there were several spare book depositories outside the city and in vinets, at the beginning there was rejection of this project because it was extremely complex, we were lucky in that the president understood that when its fantastic forms, that it’s all real, it’s still an impetus for development architectural and construction industry, i demand that they do it right, i have an eye on this for us, keep in mind not a single builder has this, i will see it all, i say again, this is the face of the country, here everything was in the forests and it worked about 3,000 people at one time approached the construction of the library, well, with full understanding that

they were building a temple. when we already imagined that this library itself, with its collection, is the greatest value of humanity, so we presented this ball in the form of a diamond, every belarusian participated in the creation, and the fraternity, and brotherhood, and cleanup days that were held and the head of state worked here, he is a social activist, plus the money that was transferred from the republican cleanup, all this together allows us to talk about this cultural symbol as a public property of belarusians. the new building is, of course, much more comfortable, and most importantly, the book has become much

more accessible, there is no need to wait. a week, for example, until the book is brought from the crown, no, right away, all at once, the document is stacked, with the help of a telelift, this is a single-flight transport document delivery system, sent to the service area, within 15 minutes the reader will be able to receive the document. for the year, our reading. the halls are visited by readers about 5,000 times, and we issue more than a million documents. at the top we always have documents on law, economics, and history. our famous round hall, oval hall, events with the participation of the head of state were held here. and now we are hosting international congresses, meetings, integrating our communities. how can russia and i share the russian genius?

literature by fyodor mikhailovich. which comes from this holy belarusian land. on september 1, 1966, the book museum opened and later an observation deck was added. the eastern space of the national library of belarus is a complex of ten exhibition locations with a total area of ​​more than 4,000 m. every year... about 100 various exhibitions are held, we currently have more than thirty types of excursions, about 4,000 excursion groups visit us per year, our visitors have the opportunity to come to the holy of holies, in this stock house there is a new whisper to the national word , it has its own microclimate, a comfortable temperature for capricious guests of 18-20°,

air humidity of 45-60%, a system of centralized dust removal and non-supply air conditioning. and yes, no spotlights, today the keepers of the cultural code can already choose. they prefer styling. belarusian made and do not like ultraviolet radiation. the curator of all technological vagaries is the dispatch department, the heart of the engineering systems of the diamond high-rise was launched even before engaged the reader in interiors. since then he has been on duty around the clock. we have two heating points in the library, a large load, since it is almost like a microdistrict. a special fire extinguishing system is in progress. automatic system relay, which means carbon dioxide is released into the room, which extinguishes the fire, we have not had such cases , we are now in the fund of national

documents, we treat this fund with special care, the quantitative composition of this fund is 850,000 copies, this is a lifetime edition our classics, zhaleikayanka kupala. song of pity by yakub kolos 910, 908, 913, documents come to us in the fund, now in modern formats, for example, this is the atlas of belarus on a flash drive, we can find sheet music in the fund with debusy’s autograph, teachers, students, they come turn specifically to vinyl records, we have the most complete collection of classical music, we are one of those few places where you can listen to a vinyl record in high quality, here you can

listen to music, audio texts, 3 and 2 years ceasing, the principles of collection: everything related to belarus, no matter what language it was published in, it will be here in the national library, we have a significant percentage of budget funding allocated for the latter, i can say, we fought, this is a complete collection of grodno provincial reports, on with a presidential grant, documents, privileges and certificates of the 16th-17th centuries were acquired; in fact, we have here two unique copies written in cyrillic, one of them is a privilege from the zhegimego minsk uniate monastery, and from the collection tyshkevich, today's library is no longer just a reading room, a research center, when the library began to expand intensively, the funds increased, they were stored in buildings not suitable for storage, accordingly there were damages, and there were questions, first of all

, of microbiological safety, except ours libraries, partly an art museum and archive, they don’t do complex restoration , this is a leaf-splitting machine, this machine is for us to preserve the book heritage and not only that we have it in the physical condition, yes, but we still have books from the 14th century, we digitize about 75,000 pages a year, we have a whole range of equipment in our arsenal, literally in 10 years, we have stepped forward, which is great, this is amazing, start, automatic

page turning, so in real time on the monitor we see what has been scanned, we are creating an electronic library, uniting the entire network of our libraries with this electronic library service. virtual. reading room in the end the whole history should appear collected in this library, more also, this is probably not a socio-cultural center, what events are held here , after all, this is a diamond of the country, every evening our minsk is decorated with illumination of the facade of the building, in order to launch the phrase 2023, the year of peace and creation, you need to use 4,646 holy days. we must move with the times, but what we see, the interest in the library that exists through the internet, requests, what we see from the readers who come to us, says that books are in demand in belarus,

we recently conducted a survey among schoolchildren , what you consider it a symbol of modern culture of belarus, they put the national library of belarus in first place, i think