Structural and Cognitive Transformation of the Education Discipline “Library and Information Service”

Abstract

The article describes the experience of structural and cognitive transformation of the discipline "Library and information service" (LIS), which is taught to students in frames of the specialty 029 "Information, library and archival affairs" at Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts (KNUCaA). The formation and substantive filling of it in different historical periods have been analysed. It has been proved that in the current conditions of rapid technical and technological development, new media introduction, creation of a single information space thematic and semantic content of the course is significantly expanding, which requires its transformation. It is proposed to introduce in the invariant part of the curriculum the discipline "Information service", in which service is considered as a phenomenon of communication culture, navigation and search activities carried out in a single information system. This is also due to the fact that information service, along with other types of services (transport service, energy, medical, trade, cultural and educational, etc.) is developing at the most powerful pace, it is dominant in the conditions of informatization of society. The expediency of including the discipline "Library and Information Service" in the invariant part of the curriculum and teaching it for the specialization "Management of Library and Information Activity" is substantiated. In mastering the course, students will become acquainted with the peculiarities of service organization in different types of libraries, modern technologies, traditional and innovative forms of popularizing information resources and services of libraries with the psychological principles of service in the modern library environment. The achievement of the goal of the study was facilitated by the methodology of the socio-communicative approach, the principles of historicism, objectivity, systematization, consideration of the problems of library and information services in its dialectics and causation. The scientific novelty of the study is that the transformation of the structural and cognitive components of the LIS discipline in library science was not considered, in accordance with the formation of the system of general and professional competences reflected in the descriptors of the National Qualifications Framework at the first (bachelor) level in the specialty 029 case. It has been proved that the competences that a future specialist will acquire will help to be competitive in the labour market and build professional growth.