CONTRIBUTION OF THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY IN THE FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF A COMFORTABLE INFORMATION ENVIRONMENT OF SCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY. 1

Abstract

The definitions and notions of the “information environment”, “comfort of the information environment” and the interpretation of the “information environment of science” are considered, the characteristics of the comfortable information environment of science are presented. In this connection, such concepts as “information resources” and “information infrastructure” are analyzed ex necessitate. A “pragmatic” understanding of the information environment is formulated in relation to its practical application to the library. The advantages of setting by a university library such a goal as forming the university information environment of science in comparison with the traditional task of providing information services to the users are substantiated.