THE SENDER : Kseniya
from Belarus
THE PICTURE : The
National Library of Belarus founded on 15 September 1922, is a copyright
library of the Republic of Belarus. It houses the largest collection of
Belarusian printed materials and the third largest collection of books in
Russian behind the Russian State Library (Moscow) and the Russian National
Library (St Petersburg). It is now located in a new 72-metre (236 feet)
high building in Minsk, Belarus. The building has 22 floors and was completed
in January 2006. The building can seat about 2,000 readers and features a
500-seat conference hall. Its main architectural component has the shape of a rhombicuboctahedron.
The library's new building was designed by architects Mihail Vinogradov and
Viktor Kramarenko and opened on 16 June 2006.The National Library of Belarus is
the main information and cultural centre of the country. Its depository
collections include 8 million items of various media. In 1993 the National
Library of Belarus started to create its own electronic information resources.
It has generated a collection of bibliographic, factual graphic, full-text,
graphic, sound and language databases that comprise more than 2 million
records. The scope of databases is quite wide: humanities, social sciences,
history, art and culture of Belarus. Library users also have access to
databases of other libraries and academic institutions, including foreign ones.
THE STAMP : This
is Belarus Ornament. This stamp issued on 27 January 2012
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