LIBRARY AND INFORMATION EDUCATION IN UKRAINE: DEVELOPMENT STAGES AND CHARACTERISTICS

Abstract

The purpose of the article. To define and scientifically substantiate the main stages of the development of library and information education in Ukraine, to reveal their characteristic features. The methodology is based on the general scientific principles of historicism, complexity, comprehensive knowledge, as well as on particular methods - comparative-historical, retrospective, problem-chronological, logical-analytical, helped to substantiate the periodization of the highest library-informational education and to define characteristic features and trends of development. The scientific novelty of the work is that for the first time the periodization of the evolution of library and information education in Ukraine was proposed, the chronological frameworks of each stage and their characteristic features were determined, the network formation and the activity of educational institutions for the training of specialists for the library and information industry were revealed. Conclusions. In the development of library and information education, we proposed to outline the following stages: the initial, chronological framework of which covers the beginning of the nineteenth century. – the middle of the 1920s; the first - the organizational and structural stage - 1925 – 1934; The second stage covers 1934. - The early 60’s. XX in; the third - the reorganization stage - was marked by the beginning of the 1960s and 1991, and the fourth - the scene of conceptualization - we defined 1991-2014. Since 2014, in our opinion, a new modernization stage of the development of library and information education is beginning.