Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts
The main areas of work of the department are:
- formation, organization and storage of funds, national spiritual values, which are related to literature, language, history, spiritual culture of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
- restoration and preservation of documents, bibliographic description, organization and maintenance of the electronic catalogue.
Duties of the department:
- collection of rare books and manuscripts, valuable scientific publications;
- demonstration and promotion of the foundations;
- preparation of publications in the media;
- reflecting the collection in the catalogue and publishing indexes of manuscripts and rare books;
- advising readers on working with rare collections, providing conditions for research work for faculty, researchers, doctoral students, master's students and students;
- individual service of readers in accordance with their information needs and the rules of library use.
The department has rare books and manuscripts in kazakh, russian and other languages, audio-video, photo-documents and periodicals are collected.
The department has memorial libraries of outstanding scientists of Kazakhstan:
- Library of academician A. Margulan;
- Fund of the library of academician M. Karatayev;
- Manuscript fund of the writer S. Begalin;
- Museum-library of academicians S. Kirabaev and A. Beisenova (office 303);
- Fund of the library of academician R. Syzdykova;
- Fund of the library of professor T. Kakishev;
- Fund of the library of professor O. Nurmagambetova;
- Book fund of the writer-scientist A. Seydimbek;
- Library of professor T. Zhurtbai;
- Library of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany of H.D. Genscher;
- Book fund of academician D. Kamzabekuly.
