of the Republican Scientific Medical Library

Catalogs reading room

3nd floor, room 310, phone number – +375 (017) 370-70-37, 367-26-44

Services:

– subject card catalog (1972-1991);

– electronic catalog;

– Electronic medical library;

– purchased databases and databases created by the library;

– Internet resources.

Additional (paid) services:

– subject search of information in databases;

– all types of bibliographic references;

– recording information on electronic data carriers;

– scanning of documents;

– Printing of documents on a printer.

For your information:

Computers in the hall are used only for accessing national and world databases and Internet information resources in the library’s field of activity.

The use of personal electronic data carriers is permitted only with the permission of the librarian or bibliographer on duty.

Users are forbidden:

to perform system operations on the Library’s computer network, to reinstall software tools, to disconnect technical equipment from the network, to destroy and edit files created by other users, to visit from devices belonging to the Library Internet resources not related to the activity profile.

Reading room

3nd floor, room 310, phone number – +375 (017) 367-26-44, 370-70-37

For users who visit the Library directly, there is a reading room which provides open access to the following documents:

– domestic books of the last 10 years;

– domestic periodicals of the last 5 years;

– dissertation abstracts of the last 2 years;

– Reference works (encyclopaedias, reference books, dictionaries);

– newspapers for the current year.

Users are forbidden:

– give the library card to other people and use the library cards of other people;

– take documents from the Library’s collection outside the reading room;

– bring their personal printed materials (books, magazines, newspapers, teaching materials, image documents, notes and other documents), video equipment, piercing and cutting objects into the reading room;

– enter the Library dressed untidy;

– visit the Library while under the influence of alcohol, drugs, psychotropic or toxic substances;

– enter the Library with animals, except visually impaired users accompanied by a guide dog;

– perform actions damaging the document (tearing out or cutting pages, making notes, underlining, tracing drawings, writing on sheets of paper placed on the document, independently making repairs of documents, etc.);

– take without permission documents received by other users;

– take food and coloured drinks in the reading room;

– use mobile phones, cameras and other technical means for filming and photographing documents from the Library collection, information from monitors.

It is prohibited to enter the reading room in outer clothing and carry bags larger than 20×20 cm, as well as to take out documents and use mobile phones.

During the last 10 days of each month, with the exception of July and August, Information Days are held in the Library’s reading room to showcase the publications received by the Library during the current month.

Document issuance room

3nd floor, room 310, phone number – +375 (017) 367-26-44, 370-70-37

Services:

– issue of printed publications for use in the reading room;

– 10-day document reservations if there are no requests from other users at the time;

– providing full information on the composition of the collection and information resources of the Library;

– consultation on finding sources of information;

– provision of full texts of documents from the Library’s collection in the page view mode through the Electronic Medical Library.

Additional (paid) services:

– photocopying of documents.