The National Library of Belarus

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The National Library of Belarus Национальная библиотека Белоруссии

Location	Minsk
Established	September 15, 1922
Collection size	8,300,000
Director	Roman Motulski
Website	www.nlb.by/

The National Library of Belarus (Belarusian: Нацыянальная бібліятэка Беларусі, Russian: Национальная библиотека Белоруссии) was founded on September 15, 1922.

It is now located in new 72 metre (236 foot) tall building in Minsk, Belarus. It has 22 floors and was topped out in January 2006. The building features a 500 seat conference hall. Its architectural main component has the shape of a rhombicuboctahedron. The Library's new building opened on June 16, 2006.

The National Library of Belarus is the main informative and cultural center of the country. Its informative resource includes 8 million units of storage on different kinds of media. In 1993 the National Library of Belarus got to create its own electronic informative resources. It generates a number of bibliographic, fact graphic, full text, graphic, sound and linguistic databases that actually include more than 2 million records. The repertoire of databases is quite wide: social sciences, history, art and culture of Belarus. The Library users have also access to databases of other libraries and informative institutions, including foreign ones.

The Library service is in great demand. More than 90 thousand Belarussian citizens are the Library users, which annually get 3,5 million documents. Every day the Library is visited by more than 2,2 thousand people. The Library daily delivers about 12 thousand documents from its funds.