Implementation of Educational and Professional Programs of Specialty 029 «Information, Library and Archives»: Traditions and Innovations

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to identify and analyse traditional and innovative educational and professional programs of the specialty 029 "Information, library and archival work", which are implemented in higher education institutions of Ukraine. The research methodology is based on an organic combination of the principles of scientific objectivity and systematicity, the application of the structural-functional approach, and the use of general scientific methods of scientific knowledge (cognitive, analysis and synthesis, statistical), content analysis of OPP in institutions of tertiary education. The scientific novelty of the presented work consists in identifying in the information system "Vstup.OSVITA.UA" a list of higher education institutions of which bachelor's and master's degrees in specialty 029 IBAS are trained, in the analysis of introduced educational and professional programs, in determining their traditional and innovative orientations. Conclusions. The training of specialists in specialty 029 "Information, library and archival affairs" is carried out in higher education institutions of Ukraine under various educational and professional programs, which attests to the modernisation and improvement of the training of specialists in the specified field and the orientation of tertiary education to European integration processes. It was found that within the specialty, 63 OPPs for bachelors and 37 for masters were introduced into the educational process, of which 25 were accredited at the bachelor's level and 14 – at the master's level. Part of the OPPs is waiting for accreditation, according to their schedule. Among the OPPs presented by higher education institutions, the most common are "Documentation and information activities" (15 – bachelor's and 12 – master's) and "Information, library and archival affairs" (17 and 12, respectively). The analysis of the rest of the programs (31 – bachelor's and 13 – master's) showed that in 12 bachelor's and 10 master's programs, key words in the names of the programs are the document science component, such as "document science support", "document science management" processes", "documentation support", "document implementation", and others. One master's program and two bachelor's programs are based on librarian training of specialists, as evidenced by their names. The specified programs have their roots in the training of specialists in the field of document studies and librarianship, which indicates their traditional character. Part of the programs is aimed at training specialists in the information field. Under the influence of total digitisation, accents and priorities in social life are unconditionally changing, which is reflected in the modernisation of the educational process, the actualisation of innovative OPPs as a reflection of the in-demand synthesised knowledge

Keywords: higher education applicant, educational process, specialty 029 “Information, Library and Archival Affairs”, Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts.