Information library resources of individual organization of masters’ research in MSU

Abstract

The article contains a brief overview of the information resources of the MSU scientific library for analyzing their technical capabilities for individual organization of masters’ research work during extracurricular time. Various types of electronic catalogs and databases are presented in detail. The author analyzes the problems and outlines the technological ways for using information library resources by masters under the supervision of the library staff. The article presents the author’s model of technology of individual use of information library resources under the guidance of a library employee in the educational space of a new type. It provides for a set of interrelated modules that provide step-by-step access to masters for searching, processing, exchanging and storing individual scientific information. For the intensive functioning of the proposed technology, library staff individually provides various types of educational, consulting and research services to masters, acting as a partner of the teacher, co-author of training courses and administrator of Internet resources. Technologically organized individual application of information library resources provides for the integration of traditional and on-line forms of education, creating a virtual educational space. At the same time the master is given freedom to choose the form of training (group or individual) and individual educational trajectory depending on the volume of the curriculum and the time for its passage.