The idea of the socio-cultural world: university library in the digital age

Abstract

For centuries, the library has embodied one of the greatest intellectual achievements of mankind. Determining the horizon of university research libraries and librarianship, as a rule, is considered in the perspective of their institutional development. The article considers the problems of library business in the conditions of formation of information society in Ukraine. The analysis of the scientific and information base of the research reveals that the leading topics in the scientific literature are the issues of material and technical support of libraries, financing of the library industry, introduction of innovative management in library services, training of library specialists. The general conclusion of this investigation is as follows: the problems of development of university libraries are a mirror of the problems of information progress of Ukrainian society and education in Ukraine.