Piotr Lapo graduated from the Belarusian State University (BSU) with a degree in Applied Mathematics in 1981 and for a long time his main activity was software development for various automated control systems. He entered the library business in 1994, having taken the position of the head of the department of automation of library processes in the Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
Later he headed the Fundamental Library of BSU for 15 years, since March 2015 he has been working as a general expert in the Scientific Library of Nazarbayev University (Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan).
- Interned in the USA (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Poland (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun).
- He taught at the Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts and is the author of more than 70 publications.
- Initiator and executor of a number of national and international projects in the field of librarianship.
- President of the Belarusian Library Association in 2001-2005.