Text 7 Publishing Center

The changes that take place in the social and economic spheres inevitably put forward new requirements to the system of higher education as well as the quality of the information resources provided for the educational process. The establishment of the publishing center in February 1999 was one of the ways to raise a level of publications of teaching materials and the formation of the library stock.

The publishing center consists of editorial, printing, copying and marketing departments. There are good facilities at its disposal.

In spite of its «young age» (four years since its foundation), the publishing center has published 1,135 works with the total amount of more than 5,200 authors’ sheets edited so far, including text-books and teaching manuals with the Ministry of Education official recommendation (82); monographs (48); collections of scientific works and abstracts for conferences, congresses and symposia (78); educational methodological teaching manuals (including curricula) (762).

The acknowledged leaders among the national textbooks on economics published by the BSEU are as follows: «Economics» (edited by N.I. Bazylev, S.P. Gurko); «Bookkeeping in agricultural sector» (edited by A.P. Mikhalkevich); «Economic activities of enterprises and agricultural sector» (edited by P.V. Leshchilovsky, A.F. Dogil, V.S. Tonkovich); «Economic activities of commercial banks» (edited by G.I. Kravtsova); «Fundamentals of ecology and nature use» (O.S. Shimova, N.K. Sokolovsky); «Price Formation» (I.I. Poleshchuk, V.V. Tereshina).

The teaching manuals approved by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus were highly appreci­ated not only by the faculty and students of our university but of other universities, too. They are: «Economic-mathematical methods and models» (edited by A.V. Kusnetsov); «Ваnк monitoring and audit» (edited by G.I. Kravtsova); «Socio-economic statistics» (edited by S.R. Nesterovich); «Business planning in commerce» (N.N. Skriba, I.M. Mikulich, R.P. Valevich); «Advertising in tourism» (A.P. Durovich); «Philosophy» (edited by V.K. Lukashevich); «Insurance» (edited by M.A. Zaitseva, L.M. Litvinova); «Fundamentals of the diplomatic and consular service» (K.M. Zakharova, A.A. Konovalova); «Aesthetics of goods» (N.M. Ilyin); «Food-stuff commodity expertise» (edited by. O.A. Brilevsky); «Fundamentals of law» (edited by V.A. Vitushko, V.G. Tikhinya, G.B. Shishko); «Fundamentals of energy saving» (M.V. Samoilov, V.V. Panevchik, A.N. Kovalev); «Regional economics» (edited by V.I. Borisevich); «Organization of commerce» (V.N. Platonov).

The BSEU publishing center was the first in the country to start editing distance learning course books on particular subjects containing tests, tasks, lists of the recommended materials for part-time students.

University cooperation within the framework of the economic programs together with foreign universities and organizations is embodied in the joint editions of the course books on economic and law issues, and con­ference materials.

The publishing center publishes the findings of the research done at the university. They are published in collections of materials of the student national scientific conferences annually held at the university. The research work of the university faculty is published in monographs, and collections of scientific works.

The staff of the publishing center are professionals who have years of experience in publishing books.

Text 8 Library

The BSEU library was founded together with the establishment of the Institute of National Economy back in 1933, and it has its own rich history to its credit. At present it has 1.5 million textbooks, monographs, fiction, dissertations, journals and magazines, newspapers and other editions both on paper and in computer-versions.

It is the largest specialized collection of literature in economics in Belarus. Almost all journals of economics-related and law subjects are available there. The branches of the library are found in 5 cities of the country.

The section of rare books and manuscripts has 8,667 units, among which there are economic editions of early 19th century, encyclopedias, monographs and the university scholars' dissertations.

More than 3,000 readers come to the library depart­ments and its branches daily.

In addition to students, faculty and scholars, numer­ous specialists of enterprises and state authorities, as well as school and college students attend the library.

Within the framework of the interlibrary exchange system, the library cooperates with the National, Presidential as well as regional and foreign libraries. Technology of delivering electronic documents is being worked out.

The reading hall of foreign literature is provided with modern editions in many languages. These include original sources on economics and geography, as well as reference and encyclopedic literature, foreign magazines and newspapers, audio-visual aids for language training. All of them are actively used by students for advanced study of overseas economies. Many books were donated under the programs of International cooperation from Germany, Spain, France, the USA, and Poland.

The computer stock and technical equipment of the library are the best among the universities of the country; the electronic system of checking out books made it possible to have free access to the latest editions in the reading hall for researchers.

The University students and scholars can use a unique collection comprised of a few thousand electronic documents, including electronic versions of methodological manuals, electronic magazines, scientific, reference and analytical information from the Internet.

Using the electronic catalogue of the library is possible on more than 1,000 university computers. The project «Virtual Library» which is being worked out jointly with the Higher School of Applied Sciences of Osnabruk, Germany will allow to broaden the use of Internet resources.

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