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International Association of Academies of Sciences awards Belarusian scientist

03.12.2014
Alexander Stefanovich, Head of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Department of the Central Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB), has been awarded the Likhachev Prize of the International Association of Academies of Sciences (IAAS), the NASB press service told BelTA.

The ceremony to award scientists and specialists for their excellence in book studies took place during the 8th session of the Book Printing Council under the International Association of Academies of Sciences, the press service said.

The prestigious prize was instituted by the Council of the International Association of Academies of Sciences in 2010 for awarding major contributions to national culture, book science, studies of history, the theory and modern problems of book culture on a competitive basis every three years.

An international scientific conference on scientific and cultural interaction in the CIS space also took place along the session of the Council. The conference was dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the foundation of the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Scientists from Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and other countries took part in the conference. The reports they presented covered topical problems relating to studies of book history, bibliography, library business, the development of new technologies in book publishing, information bibliography activities, and library activities.
Tags: science