National Academic Library of the Republic of Astana took part in International Book Fair “BookExpoAstana – 2010”. This fair was conducted in Astana on 1-3 April, 2010, in exhibition complex “Korme”, Astana Centre of International Trade. Ministry of Communication and Information of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Akimat of Astana city officially supported the exhibition.
Exhibition “BookExpoAstana – 2010” is one of the most important events of business and cultural life of the capital. Main participants of book industry met here: publishers, writers, librarians, booksellers, printing workers. Visitors of exhibition-fair had opportunity to get acquainted with broad range of literary, scientific, educational, children's publishing not only of Kazakhstan, but Russian Federation and other countries.
NAB RK presented book exposition “Modern library resources contribute to education and science” at the exhibition-fair. Also, information seminar was conducted under this name. Seminar participants were introduced with work of NAB RK and Kazakhstan National Electronic Library (KazNEB), electronic library services, diverse remote databases, etc. There were distributed booklets, flyers with different information.
The following publishing houses, printing plants, libraries, and bookshops participated in the exhibition: “Almatykitap Baspasy”, “Dauir”, “Shikula & K”, “Atamura”, “Baspalar Yui”, “Comics” (Russia), “ELBI-SPb” (Russia), “Karapuz” (Russia), “Informnauka” (Russia), “Mir Otkrytok” (Russia), “Foliant”, “Imak Ofset” (Turkey), “Dyke-Press”, Society of Christian Science (USA-Kazakhstan), and many others.
Wide business programme including seminars, “round tables”, presentations on actual issues at book market, took place at the exhibition.
