{"title":"The Role of Electronic Libraries in Cultural Heritage Saving and Accessibility","authors":"O. Anisimova, Yuliia Rebreniuk","doi":"10.31866/2616-7654.11.2023.282662","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31866/2616-7654.11.2023.282662","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the article is to highlight the importance of saving cultural heritage, to investigate the role played by electronic libraries in this process, and to analyze current directions of their activity, as well as problems of their adaptation to the realities of today. \u0000Research methods ground on the combination of general scientific, interscientific and actually scientific principles of scientific knowledge: objectivity, historicism, research evidence, conceptual and terminological uniformity and accuracy, integrity, practical orientation. Theoretical, culturological and social-communication-informational approaches were also used, which made it possible to analyze the role of electronic libraries as a system of social and informational communications aimed at effective saving and accessibility of rare and unique documents. \u0000Scientific novelty consists in highlighting the dynamics of the technological development of information technologies, and their use for saving and accessibility of cultural heritage, the analysis of projects of electronic libraries successful use for saving and accessibility of rare and unique documents. The advantages of electronic libraries over the traditional ones were analyzed in detail, including their effectiveness in saving and accessibility of rare and unique documents that could be damaged or lost due to age or other factors. \u0000Main conclusions. The results of the study proved the important role of electronic libraries in saving and accessibility of rare and unique documents. The significant importance of electronic libraries as a system of social and informational communications aimed at effective saving and accessibility of rare and unique documents was confirmed Safeguarding them from damage and destruction, making these documents accessible to a wide audience via Internet, prove to enable people from all over the world to study and research rare and unique documents that would otherwise be available only to a limited number of researchers.","PeriodicalId":33414,"journal":{"name":"Ukrayins''kii zhurnal z bibliotekoznavstva ta informatsiinikh nauk","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45785766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electronic Information Resources of Libraries of Higher Education Branch Institutions in Ukraine During the Quarantine Restrictions and Martial Law","authors":"A. Rzheuskyi, N. Kunanets","doi":"10.31866/2616-7654.11.2023.282667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31866/2616-7654.11.2023.282667","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the article is to determine the leader among the libraries of higher education branch institutions in Ukraine in the provision of electronic information resources. \u0000Research methods. The study used the following methods: synthesis, complexity, comparative analysis, comprehensiveness of knowledge, information diagnostics, generalization, abstraction, systematization, as well as statistical, survey-analytical and benchmarking methods; systemic, functional, social and communication, critical and constructive approaches. \u0000Scientific novelty consists in determining the set of electronic information resources provided by libraries during quarantine restrictions and martial law, which allows to establish a leader library among book collections of higher education branch institutions in Ukraine, the experience of which is necessary to analyze and spread to other book collections. \u0000Main conclusions. Websites of libraries in higher education branch institutions of Ukraine were studied. A comparative analysis of electronic information resources of libraries during quarantine restrictions and martial law was carried out. The research made it possible to determine the leader among the libraries of higher education branch institutions in Ukraine in providing users with information resources during quarantine and martial law. It turned out to be the library of Kyiv University named after Borys Grinchenko. The library provides its users with a number of remote electronic information resources: an electronic catalog, an institutional repository, audio books, virtual exhibitions, a new accession in the form of presentations, full-text collections of rare publications and B. Grinchenko’s works, a test access to scientometric platforms and databases: Scopus, Web of Science, EBSCOhost, Bentham Science, ScienceDirect, a corporate electronic library Alpina Digital. It is appropriate for the leading library to share its experience with other book collections.","PeriodicalId":33414,"journal":{"name":"Ukrayins''kii zhurnal z bibliotekoznavstva ta informatsiinikh nauk","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48858934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public Libraries of Ukraine in Terms of the Martial State: Losses and Challenges","authors":"Liudmyla Kuznetsova","doi":"10.31866/2616-7654.10.2022.269471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31866/2616-7654.10.2022.269471","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the article is to research and generalize the consequences of the destruction and loss of public libraries of Ukraine during the full-scale offensive of Russia on the territory of Ukraine from February 24, 2022. \u0000The research methodology is based on both general scientific methods - analysis, synthesis, and informative, retrospective research methods are used, which are used to monitor the state of public libraries during the Russian military aggression on the territory of Ukraine and the occupation of certain territories from February 2022. \u0000The scientific novelty of the study consists in the systematization of a wide range of actual material on the state of Ukrainian libraries during the Russian military aggression; for the first time, separate statistical data and informational materials on the loss and destruction of public libraries during the full-scale offensive of the Russian Federation from February 2022 were introduced into scientific circulation. \u0000Conclusions. Studying the consequences of the destruction and loss of public libraries since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia on the territory of Ukraine, it is possible to determine the main trends: \u0000 \u0000there is a reduction in the network of public libraries in all regions of Ukraine, especially in war zones; \u0000there are processes of destruction and damage (full or partial) of library buildings, loss of material and technical means (personal computers, duplicating equipment, multimedia equipment, furniture, etc.); \u0000the complete or partial loss of library funds by individual public libraries continues, especially in Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Donetsk and other frontline regions; \u0000now losses during the war are already recorded, but the determined amount of damage to public libraries is quite approximate, it will increase with the continuation of the war; \u0000regardless of the difficult situation in the conditions of martial law and the continuation of armed aggression, public libraries mobilized all available resources to carry out volunteer, social, psychological and informational activities. \u0000 \u0000Given that libraries play a significant role in preserving national interests, the problem of protecting library funds in wartime is an important component of the Ukrainian state's cultural policy. The Ministry of Culture and Information Policy must now, without waiting for the end of the war, to develop, together with other state structures, proposals for the restoration of damaged library buildings, the preservation of existing and the creation of new funds. The main tasks of librarians should also be to preserve for future generations the memory of the heroic struggle of Ukrainians for their state during the armed Russian aggression, the systematization of documentary evidence about the combat path of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, volunteer battalions, the activities of the territorial defense, volunteers, and the facts of the crimes of the Russian aggressors during","PeriodicalId":33414,"journal":{"name":"Ukrayins''kii zhurnal z bibliotekoznavstva ta informatsiinikh nauk","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41980715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scientific Study of Metropolitanate of Kyiv Documents in the Synodal Period as an Information Source","authors":"Olena Osiyevska","doi":"10.31866/2616-7654.10.2022.269472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31866/2616-7654.10.2022.269472","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, archival materials related to functioning of Metropolitanate of Kyiv form a significant part of the entire National Archival Fund of Ukraine. They contain information considering not only purely church life, but also matters of cultural, social, economic and political nature.\u0000This article examines the process of implementing Metropolitanate of Kyiv documents into scientific circulation, as well as highlights hindrances faced by scientists in different periods – imperial, Soviet, modern.\u0000The aim of the article is to reveal the process of scientists’ research of Metropolitanate of Kyiv documents as an information source during the 19th and the early 21st cent.\u0000The research methodology grounds on the application of general and special methods. Among the general methods, the most effective are dialectical and logical ones, which are used to clarify the connection between social processes and scientific studies. Among the special methods, the historical and comparative ones are chosen, which give the opportunity to track the process of studying Metropolitanate of Kyiv documents as an information source and achievements in this direction during different chronological periods.\u0000The scientific novelty consists in the attempt to generalise and clarify conditions and peculiarities of researching the documents informational potential of Metropolitanate of Kyiv in the Synodal period.\u0000Conclusions. There can be singled out three main periods during which, to one degree or another, researchers paid attention to and actualised the informational potential of mentioned above archival sources. The first period – from the end of the 18th cent. to the beginning of the 20th cent. – had the character of initial studying and implementing into scientific circulation some certain documents, to a lesser extent these were document complexes of Metropolitanate of Kyiv. The second period was already the time of the Soviet power system functioning in 1920– 1991. The third period of studying these documents as an information source dates back to the times of Ukrainian Independence after the USSR collapse, since 1991.","PeriodicalId":33414,"journal":{"name":"Ukrayins''kii zhurnal z bibliotekoznavstva ta informatsiinikh nauk","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49640666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public Libraries of the United Territorial Communities of Odesa Region in Conditions of Martial State: Activity Peculiarities","authors":"Iryna Burmis","doi":"10.31866/2616-7654.10.2022.269464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31866/2616-7654.10.2022.269464","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the article is to highlight peculiarities of public libraries activity in Odesa region, taking into account the martial state conditions, and paying special attention to the main directions of their work processes since the full-scale invasion of Russian troops.\u0000The methodology of this research is based on general scientific principles of theory and practice unity, systematicity and complexity of cognition. In order to achieve the set goal, the usage of methods on research empirical and theoretical levels has been applied: general scientific methods (description, analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalisation), and special ones (information collecting and processing of the selective observation, content analysis).\u0000The scientific novelty of this study grounds on the generalisation and systematisation of new and certain data about public libraries activity in Odesa region in martial state conditions.\u0000Сonclusions. It is confirmed that in conditions of full-scale invasion, as well as war with Russia in total, public libraries of Odesa region, essentially, have transformed into important foundations of life activity in OTC (Odesa territorial communities), media- and cultural centres, territories of co-creation, understanding, psychological comfort and security owing to support of communities and other colleagues by interest. It has been shortly described that overcoming the serious challenges and threats, nowadays, public libraries space of the region is positioned not only as a space of enlightenment and tolerance, culture, science and education, but also as a national-patriotic and anti-crisis hub of support, consolidation and growth of the social and human capital. The attention is put on the fact that during the war public libraries stand in solidarity with communities, use all efficient forms and methods of cooperation for helping communities relying on their own work developments and experience. It has been determined that in the aspect of cooperation with local self-government structures, public libraries of Odesa region actively promote the formal and non-formal education, self-education and community progress, as well as popularise reading and give access to the book fund, perform their functions as cultural centres (lectures, discussions with different specialists, book exhibitions, master-classes, creative meetings, etc.), conduct events and classes of national patriotic education, support the Armed Forces of Ukraine, provide informative and consulting support, help refugees and internally displaced people with all possible fast adaptation to the new place and integration into the local community.","PeriodicalId":33414,"journal":{"name":"Ukrayins''kii zhurnal z bibliotekoznavstva ta informatsiinikh nauk","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48990918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Informational Resources Transformation of Ukrainian Public Libraries Current Conditions","authors":"Yevhenii Chumak","doi":"10.31866/2616-7654.10.2022.269445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31866/2616-7654.10.2022.269445","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the article is to substantiate the transformation of information resources of public libraries of Ukraine in modern conditions. \u0000The methodological basis of the article was based on systemic, information-service and modernist approaches and the application of the principles of objectivity and comprehensiveness of knowledge. The organic combination of structural-functional analysis, synthesis, and cognitive methods made it possible to successfully realize the set goal. \u0000The scientific novelty consists in considering the main aspects of the formation of electronic information resources against the background of the aggression of the Russian Federation against the sovereign state of Ukraine, starting in 2014, arguing that public libraries actively participated in the information processes of creating a regional source base on events that take place in modern history of our state. The existing ones are analyzed and the author's understanding of the term \"electronic library and information resources\" is proposed. \u0000Conclusions. Digitization stimulates the general trend of transformation of public libraries of Ukraine into hubs for comprehensive processing of all types of information on all media. The use of new media in library practice contributes to the production of relevant electronic information resources, which marks the third stage of the use of information and communication technologies in the work of libraries. The public libraries of Ukraine currently have the following types of electronic information resources: a) electronic catalogs; b) full-text databases; c) electronic collections of text analogues of printed publications; d) collections of digitized publications; e) electronic documents that do not have printed counterparts; f) electronic publications of audio and video information; g) multimedia products. Electronic information resources enrich the assortment and include the following audiovisual products: audio recordings, films, videos, slides, presentations, etc., including exhibitions and tours of the library, advertising of new arrivals, online meetings with famous people or solutions to current community issues, etc. Own accounts in social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram), messengers (WhatsApp, Telegram, Viber), video hosting (YouTube), on the one hand, have a significant potential for popularizing the library, on the other hand, are a platform for approving the demand for created electronic information resources.","PeriodicalId":33414,"journal":{"name":"Ukrayins''kii zhurnal z bibliotekoznavstva ta informatsiinikh nauk","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49663318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Development Features of the Higher Education System in Library and Information Education in Asian Countries","authors":"A. Humenchuk","doi":"10.31866/2616-7654.10.2022.269488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31866/2616-7654.10.2022.269488","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the study is to determine the current state and trends in the development of models of higher library and information education in Asian countries, establishing opportunities for borrowing their best educational practices in Ukraine. The article identifies Asian countries-leaders in the modernisation of national systems of higher library and information education, including both developed countries (Japan) and rapidly developing countries (China, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, and the Philippines).\u0000The research methodology is based on the use of heuristic possibilities of socio-cultural and systematic approaches, source studies and comparative methods, and content analysis of bachelor’s and master’s educational programmes in library science.\u0000The scientific novelty of the research consists in proving the common and different in the systems of higher library and information education of the leading Asian countries, introducing into scientific circulation the results of the content and structure analysis of library science educational programmes of the best universities in the leading Asian countries. It is noted that these educational institutions have successfully implemented all the basic principles of the Bologna Process into educational practice, thus contributing to the quality improvement of the library specialists’ training and their competitiveness on the global labour market.\u0000The author of the article draws conclusions regarding the main principles underlying the modernisation of library science educational programmes and establishes the socio-cultural, economic, geographical, and political factors that led to the diversity of training models for information specialists at different levels. The special features of degree training of bachelors, masters, and doctors of philosophy in the “Library and Information Sciences” specialty in leading Asian universities are determined; the profiles and content of their educational programmes are characterised. The organisational and cognitive features of the library and information personnel training of various educational levels are established; the key competencies acquired by students during their mastering are characterised. Emphasis is placed on promising achievements and innovations of the best training models of library and information specialists in Asian countries, which should be implemented within the framework of a single integrated specialty 029 “Information, Library and Archival Science”.","PeriodicalId":33414,"journal":{"name":"Ukrayins''kii zhurnal z bibliotekoznavstva ta informatsiinikh nauk","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42034788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Educational and Professional Programme “Online Journalism and Blogging”: Interdisciplinary Content of the Speciality “Information, Library and Archival Management”","authors":"N. Bachynska","doi":"10.31866/2616-7654.10.2022.269486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31866/2616-7654.10.2022.269486","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the study is to identify and substantiate the list of competencies required by a specialist within the interdisciplinary major “Online Journalism and Blogging” in the field of study “Information, Library, and Archival Management”.\u0000The research methodology is based on the use of a set of general scientific and special methods: analysis and synthesis, the method of comparative analysis for comparing the standards of higher education, which form the subject field of activity of a future specialist majoring in “Online Journalism and Blogging” in the field of study “Information, Library, and Archival Management”; the method of content analysis in the study of texts and documents; a hypothetical method for justifying the need for online journalism in the activities of institutions and the infrastructure of the document and information sphere.\u0000The scientific novelty consists in identifying the list of competencies required by a specialist within the interdisciplinary major “Online Journalism and Blogging” in the field of study “Information, Library and Archival Management” and substantiating the main focus of the educational programme, which is outlined as the formation and development of professional competence in providing press strategies in various forms of their implementation in the digital social and information environment as an integrative activity that includes information (document)-communicative and journalistic components.\u0000Conclusions. Increasing the competitiveness of modern specialists is normalised today by the introduction of interdisciplinary educational programmes into the educational process. The offer of the educational and professional programme “Online Journalism and Blogging” in the field of study “Information, Library and Archival Management” provides for mastering the knowledge related to the programme subject areas 061 Journalism and 029 Information, library and archival management, which determine its subject area, and the integration of educational content in these fields. The projected activity of the future specialist in the educational and professional programme “Online Journalism and Blogging” is within the framework of such basic concepts as “information resource” – “social communications” – “information product” in their interconnection and mediation by the use of digital technologies. The main focus of the educational programme and major is the formation and development of professional competence in providing press strategies in various forms of their implementation in the digital social and information environment as an integrative activity that includes information (document)-communicative and journalistic components.","PeriodicalId":33414,"journal":{"name":"Ukrayins''kii zhurnal z bibliotekoznavstva ta informatsiinikh nauk","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47931268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Current Tendencies of Informational and Analytical Software Development in the Context of Effective Management Decision-Making","authors":"Serhii Paliy","doi":"10.31866/2616-7654.10.2022.269493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31866/2616-7654.10.2022.269493","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the article is to highlight peculiarities and tendencies of informational and analytical systems development that contribute to effective management activity of Ukrainian authorities.\u0000The research methodology founds on the application of the systemic method, as well as methods of analysis and synthesis, also logical, systemic-structural, comparative and cognitive analysis, which made it possible to define basic essential characteristics of management activity and determine the directions, principles, forms and methods of improving the effectiveness of management activity thanks to the usage of modern informational and analytical systems.\u0000The scientific novelty. Peculiarities of informational and analytical software for Ukrainian state authorities activity at the beginning of the third decade of the 21st cent. have been studied; the main problems have been considered, and the prospects for informational and analytical activity development at the current stage have been determined; the specifics of modern processes of management informatisation with the help of innovative informational and analytical technologies of decision-making software has been analysed.\u0000Conclusions. Any management activity is a process of processing information causing the state of the management object, and making decisions causing its preservation and progressive development in time and space under conditions of various restrictions and restraining factors. Only systematised, complex information, just the information that combines various types and data, which are historically and logically related, and which are in a clearly defined order and sequence, can contribute to the improvement of management decisions effectiveness. The compliance with this requirement allows the management subject to constantly review the social object in all its complexity and diversity, as well as adjust its functioning and development in accordance with each specific situation.\u0000Informational and analytical systems make a significant contribution to the process of management decision-making. Their implementation has made a positive effect on the methods of decision-making at various levels of state administration, changing the way and speed of providing information to decision-making individuals, providing relevant, timely and accurate information.\u0000At the current stage, a number of objective and subjective factors necessitate the following: the development of various strategies of informational and analytical systems in order to meet the organisational needs of state administration structures; the elaboration of strategies for successful integration of new technologies into a certain activity, including appropriate funding and adequate technical support to ensure the necessary flow of information for short-term and long-term planning decisions making; the employees providing with adequate training to ensure effective usage of informational and analytical systems.","PeriodicalId":33414,"journal":{"name":"Ukrayins''kii zhurnal z bibliotekoznavstva ta informatsiinikh nauk","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47408738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital Communications as Means of Innovative Activity of Public Libraries in Ukraine","authors":"Ivan Yarema","doi":"10.31866/2616-7654.10.2022.269461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31866/2616-7654.10.2022.269461","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of the article is to represent modern digital communication as an innovative mean of public libraries in Ukraine, and the importance of its development in crisis phenomena conditions.\u0000The research methodology founds on the application of a set of general scientific methods (generalisation, analysis, synthesis, prognostication), and special librarian ones. The organic combination of systemic, sociocommunicative, structural and functional research ways has contributed to the achievement of the set goal. \u0000The scientific novelty of the study consists in substantiating the value approach to the individualisation of public libraries service activity, when providing a friendly, comfortable communication environment for the user in conditions of digitalisation of social processes becomes the leading aim. Library innovations have been singled out. They are based on innovative information technologies, but have different social and technological grounds, in particular: organisational, service, product, technical, business.\u0000Conclusions. In current conditions, public libraries play the role of information hubs, where information streams flow for their further processing and redistribution according to users’ needs. The main goal of individualising the service activity is to provide a user-friendly and comfortable communication environment.\u0000The variety of innovations that have rapidly met library activities have different social and technological grounds. We have highlighted the following: organisational, service, product, technical, business ones. Nowadays, the activity of blighty public libraries is developing in innovative directions using various channels of communication with users, in particular, their own sites, blogs, social networks, messengers, online platforms, media formats, channels in Tik- Tok and YouTube.\u0000Libraries of Ukraine fill the information space with their own products (databases, electronic catalogues, collections of digitised publications, etc.), provide virtual services, organise access to external resources, etc. The implementation of modern information technologies into library processes has brought library and information users’ services to a new level. The library digital model of today makes it possible to conduct a full-fledged dialogue with distant users, and allow them to access library services at the same level as those readers who work with information directly in book collections.","PeriodicalId":33414,"journal":{"name":"Ukrayins''kii zhurnal z bibliotekoznavstva ta informatsiinikh nauk","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43635029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}