THE 100-YEAR HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF BELARUS IN THE AUDIO-VISUAL DOCUMENTS OF THE BELARUSIAN STATE ARCHIVES OF FILMS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND SOUND

The National Library of Belarus (originally the State Library of the BSSR named after V.I. Lenin) is a research center in the field of library science, bibliography, and book science. Besides, it is the national coordinating, scientific and methodological center in the library field. The National Library of Belarus is the leading organization in the field of information resources, which forms the intellectual potential of the Belarusian nation. In the funds of the Belarusian State Archives of Films, Photographs and Sound Recordings the history of the development of the National Library is widely represented by audiovisual documents, such as photo chronicles of the Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union and the Belarusian Telegraph Agency; photos by the republican newspapers; short films of the 1930s. Furthermore, the information about the library can be found in film magazines “Savetskaya Belarus” (Soviet Belarus), "Naviny dnya" (News of the Day) and TV programmes “Padzeі Kulturnogo Zhyccja” (News of Cultural Life), “Kontury” (Contours), “Nedelya” (Week), in a documentary video film “Skarbnitsa Slova” (Word Treasure) and sound recordings of Belarusian radio broadcasts and radio programs from the cycle “I Love My City”, Radio Minsk.