sentences:  In 1960s, there was made the first attempt to catalogue the collection.In 1968 the book collection was over 6,500 volumes and growing on the account of developing interest to the Belarusian Studies in British universities.In these circumstances it was decided to purchase a whole building to house the library collection (except the religious books not relevant to the Belarusian studies), its archive, as well as the small museum housed, since 1967, in the adjusted building of the St Cyril's Belarusian school.