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Department of storage of main collection and digitization of document
The main library storage is located on the ground floor and occupies an area of more than 800 m2.
The main tasks of the department:
– optimal organization of the processes of receiving, accounting, processing, placement and preservation of the fund;
– complete satisfaction of information needs with the help of the document fund of the department;
– digitization of rare, valuable, unique publications from the library fund.
The fund of the department consists of different kinds of documents: books, magazines, newspapers, author's abstracts, maps, technical regulatory acts, art publications, audiovisual and electronic documents. The content of the department's collection is universal. The depth of the archive of periodicals is from 1944. The department carries out depository storage of regional documents.
The fund of the department is in demand by the structural subdivisions of the library as well as for interlibrary loan. Popularization of the fund is very significant: participation in the preparation of book and illustrative exhibitions and the creation of electronic resources are very important.
One of the important activities of the department is the implementation of organizational and technical measures for the digitization of documents for the subsequent formation of electronic collections.
One of the most important activities of the department is the maintenance of the database «Catalogue of subscriptions», presented on the website of the library. Reference and bibliographical apparatus of the department consists of the topographical catalog of the library fund and the card index of periodicals.
The staff of the department takes part in retroconversion of card catalogs of the library as well as checking the subsidiary funds of the structural divisions of the library, provides methodical assistance to the libraries of Vitebsk region.
