Library and information activities: whom to work and where to study?

At the moment, the obsolete library isthe social institution is losing its relevance. However, others arise or old ones are rehabilitated into completely new social enterprises and cultural institutions. Currently, the librarian or, as this profession is called in the language of professionals of this organization, a specialist in library and information activities, should be able not only to arrange books on the shelves. This is a whole system of work and responsibilities, which include the latest information technologies and projects.

Let's see what is the library and information activity. Who should work for a specialist with such a diploma?

Introduction to the profession

Library and Information Managementthe activities of specialists in this field, coupled with innovative technologies introduced in modern libraries, information and cultural centers, allow visitors to access the most valuable exhibits. And this is sometimes historically important and especially protected documents, funds and materials, which can now easily be accessed by ordinary library visitors through the latest information technologies.

Where to go to study?

In our country the specialty "Library and information activities" can be obtained in more than 40 universities, institutes and academies. Among them:

• Moscow State University of Culture and Arts, as well as the Capital Linguistic University.
• Arctic State Institute of Arts and Culture.
• Tyumen State Academy of Culture, Arts and Social Technologies.
• Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia BN. Yeltsin.

The basis of training

Information and communication competencemodern specialists of library and information activity is based on the combination of skills and abilities, the formation of which in higher education institutions is carried out with the help of a multilevel foundation - the foundation of knowledge of this field.

Such education in our country includes the following stages of professional training of such employees:

• secondary library education;
• higher education;
• the highest qualification - postgraduate study;
• Forms of retraining of specialists of other spheres of activity as an additional education.

All these points constitute the system of permanent education of library specialists.

The model of professional competence of such a highly qualified specialist: the definition and description of the personal qualities of readers and their motivation for reading.

Such characteristics are given after carrying out and analysis of practical researches of professional qualities of specialists of the field of library activity and visitors of libraries.

Activities

The specialist in the field of library and information activities carries out the following types of work:

• methodical;
• teaching;
• information-analytical;
• research;
• organizational and managerial;
• cultural and educational;
• project and expert;
• psycho-pedagogical.

What is the work?

The main task of the work is to form,processing and classification of information and documentary funds, as well as ensuring their full preservation and organization of their restoration or restoration.

The main work of a specialist in library and information activities is as follows:

• the implementation of information diagnostics and modeling, that is, information-analytical processing of information;
• research of the qualities of information resources, their adjustment and processing;
• identification and evaluation of innovative operational experience;
• work and study of consumers of information and library resources;
• design and implementation, that is, the specific implementation of the maintenance of users of these resources;
• development of innovative projects of this environment to improve the implementation of user services, as well as internal social partnership.

Prospects

Many students ask themselves a question by enrolling in the department of library and information activities: "Who can work with such a diploma?"

Becoming a specialist in this field, you can find a suitable job profession in:

• libraries;
• cultural and leisure centers;
• information and information-analytical centers and agencies;
• teaching;
• publishing printing houses and editorial offices;
• multimedia centers.

But, of course, a graduate with a higher educationeducation received on the profile of "Library and Information Activities", who will work, will know for sure. Almost in all higher educational institutions there is a practice of selecting a place for further study after each student interested in it.

Subjects of training of students

The professional standard of library and information activity presupposes training in such subjects as:

• library science;
• bibliography;
• library journalism;
• library ethics;
• document management;
• information systems and technologies;
• computer science;
• social communications;
• professional communications in scientific and technical activities;
• foreign languages;
• theory and history of literature;
• children's literature and reading;
• quality management;
• philosophy;
• history and some others.

The specific set of subjects depends on the profile of the student chosen by the student.

Example

For example, a specialist in the field of teaching "Library and information work with children and young people" is waiting for:

• line education of childhood anthropology;
• participation in folklore and ethnographic expeditions;
• increase the degree of education at the rate of "Theory of children's literature and methodology of children's reading," and much more.

Educational programs

Educational programs and profiles for which specialists are trained in the field of "Library and Information Activities":

1. Technologies of automated library and information resources.

On this profile students study:

• the consistency of the information flow in the social environment;
• basic rules for the operation of information systems and networks;
• information technology in all its forms;
• deep concepts of documentary flows in the library sector, as well as the entire existing fund and various areas of activity of libraries.

A trained specialist with such skills and skills will easily be able to work with full automation of library technologies using multimedia tools.

2. Management and management of these resources for innovative development of scientific and technical activities of libraries.

Professionals of this profile are engaged in:

• management and management of information resources (documents, materials and funds of libraries or other specialized institutions);
• information escort of innovation projects;
• creation of social communication sphere of the organization.

3. Book communications in the professional sphere.

An important additional advantage of such a specialist will be the skills of working with rare and hand-written books, which are especially valuable among collectors.

Studies on this profile will prepare students for:

• organization of publishers and bookstores;
• legal and legal standards of the above organizations.

Such specialist of library and informationactivities will have practical skills in book design and design both internal and external. And also the ability to determine the exact price of antiquarian and second-hand books without errors, skills of working with auction catalogs of books.

4. Management and management of library and information activities.

After mastering the program this profile is obtainedspecialists of middle and senior level - the elite of the library world. You can call this direction very important and responsible, because the practical environment of the professional will:

• planning the daily activities of the library institution, as well as long-term management and management of organizations of this profile;
• work with structural divisions of such institutions;
• practical work with the staff;
• full understanding of certain areas of activity of libraries and similar organizations.

Thus, such a graduate is a universal in his profession and can find work in the field of management, culture, education, social communications.

5. Information and analytical profile of activities.

Assumes that the specialist in the field of library and information activities:

• knows the methods of analysis and correlation of information;
• is able to identify cause-effect contacts and factors for the development of complex situations.

When teaching students developpredictive and analytical skills, the ability to information support of professional activities, to the management of information resources of various institutions.

Within the framework of this profile, there are two actual directions for students: in the field of fiction and in the socioeconomic sphere.

6. Library and information activities with children and young people. They are experts in the theory of children's literature and the culture of children's reading. Also is a demanded type of activity.

7. The library and information activities of providing consumers of information are mainly future organizers and technologists of promotion and expansion of reading among the population. Here the main in professional study is a complex of pedagogical, psychological and socio-communicative knowledge and skills.

Highly qualified specialists of thisactivities help potential and entrenched readers of information resources to form through their reading culture their social status and broaden their horizons, to pass the stages of reader socialization.

Cipher

For each specialty there is a special code. The code of this specialty is 51.03.06 "Library and Information Activities".

Information Technology

Specialist in Library Activitywill have to learn the latest information and innovative technologies related to this profession. Information technologies of library activity of these specialists are formed in several points:

• realization of access of consumers to necessary resources through the Internet as remotely (from another city, for example), and in the library itself;
• all library collections and documents ina special database (scanning, digitization) for further sale to visitors as an object not of natural, but digitized, which ultimately helps to preserve and restore archival funds, documents and materials;
• use of advertising, PR-technologies and PR-activities in the work of a modern library;
• by means of the latest information technologies and gadgets, to interest consumers (including children and adolescents) in library and information resources.
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