The role of Soviet party schools in the development of library education in Belarus in the 1920s

The training and retraining of employees for mass libraries and reading rooms in the first years of Soviet power in the BSSR was carried out at short-term courses organized by the Glavpolitprosvet. The first such courses were organized in 1924 on the basis of Soviet party schools in Vitebsk, Minsk and Mogilev. A special role in the training of specialists for libraries was played by the Mogilev Soviet Party School, in which, in August 1927, the first All-Belarusian six-day courses for the preparation and retraining of huts began to work. In 1928, the Mogilev Soviet Party School was reorganized into an extracurricular technical school with a four-year term of study.