One of the items on the agenda of the plenary session, opening the 5th Congress &quot;The Library as a Cultural Phenomenon&quot; at the National Library of Belarus in Minsk (Oct. 18-19, 2018) was Henryk Hollender's paper on <em>University of Warsaw Library building of 1999: technology, culture and impact</em> (in English, with a Powerpoint presentation in Russian). The&nbsp; paper was dedicated to professor Marek Budzyński, the architect of UWL, who was also invited, but could not come. Dr. Hollender mentioned the forthcoming twentieth anniversary of the erection of the building, as well as the interest it aroused at that time among Belarusian colleagues. The appearance of the new university library building in Warsaw launched a series of similar projects in Polish universities, soon to be funded partly from European resources. Most of the structures followed the UWL pattern of the free, unlimited acces to the most of printed collections. The speaker tended to consider it a fulfillment of the mission of tertiary education to teach critical thinking and independent exploration of knowledge, and became part of the democratization process in Poland after 1989. Lazarski University Library is grateful to the Polish Institute in Minsk for funding of the project.&nbsp; <br />The conference participants were given a tour on the exhibition <em>Belarus and the Bible</em>, which belonged to the celebration (from 2017) of the 500th anniversary of Belarusian printing. On the lead picture: the entrance hall of the impressive building of the National Library, with the banner announcing the exhibition. Below: H. Hollender at the National Library (picture by Yuri Dziadzionak); Biblical print by Francisk Skaryna (Prague, 1517); several of numerous exhibited printed Jewish Bibles in the scroll format. Unless otherwise indicated, pictures by H. Hollender.