DOCUMENTARY FUND AS A REFLECTION LEVEL OF INFORMATION CULTURE OF THE LIBRARY

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to define the essence of the informational culture of the library, that represents the created documentary fund as an information product that is the result of the joint efforts of the staff, including its modeling, composition, and organization; to identify key elements and analyze components; outline directions for further research in terms of meeting the needs of the information society in the digital age. The methodology is to apply a culturological and systematic approach, general scientific methods of cognition, and the method of moving from the abstract to specific aspects. The scientific novelty of the work is to study the informational culture of the library and its documentary fund as a consolidated information product of joint efforts of its staff, which serves as an indicator of the level of the corporate culture of the library on the one hand and the informational culture of society on the other. The factors due to which the modern head of the library should take care of the informational culture of his institution, the main features and levels of the informational culture of the modern library are elaborated. Conclusions. The documentary fund as a product of joint activity and the main object of cultural creativity of the library staff can be presented as a complex, multidimensional structure, including the ability to collect and analyze source information, the ability to create electronic databases, knowledge of information retrieval systems and information retrieval techniques, ability to process information, skills of structuring documented information, knowledge of methods of preparation of different information documents, ability to provide information services. The combination of the main elements of the informational culture of the library is based on the principles of complexity, differential approach, and continuity and gives a new vision and understanding of the need for joint work on the formation of its documentary fund. The information culture of the library requires further research and detailed analysis of its components.

Key words: informational culture; documentary fund; joint information product; information technologies; digital age.