Component Training of Personnel for the Documentary Information Communications System in Ukraine: Methodology and Research Methods

The aim of the article is to substantiate the main methodological approaches and research methods of the personnel training for the document and information communication (DIC) system in Ukraine as a direction within the integrated speciality 029 “Information, library and archival affairs” (ILAA), and a scientific specialty 27.00.03 – Book studies, library studies, bibliographic studies (scientific field 27 – social communications). Research methods. Methodological approaches to the study of the chosen object are determined by the social orientation of document and information activity, the historical nature of the processes of its development as a pedagogical system, professionalization and differentiation of the professional space, and are determined by the social order for the training of personnel with appropriate qualifications. Scientific novelty consists in the substantiation of methodological approaches and in determination the research methods of the offered components, which are distinguished by explication of the research object, among which are these ones: theoretical and methodological foundations of the study of the specialists’ training; social requirements for the training of specialists; organizational and educational conditions for the training of specialists, and the conceptual model of training specialists for the system of document and information communications in conditions of digitalization. Main conclusions. The development of the personnel training system for the DIC system is an innovative process that is invested in the task of social design as a type of scientific and practical activity, the construction of desired future states and the diagnosis of current and promising problems of training new generation specialists. The broad context of the study of the chosen object – historical, sociocultural and pedagogical – requires the application of appropriate methods of these sciences at each of the stages of study and to each of the components of the object. It is emphasized that the study of the formation and development of personnel training for the system of document and information communications in Ukraine in the historical context and the processes of development of innovative content and organizational and educational conditions of functioning are not exhausted by the offered methodological approaches to the research of the chosen direction, which are variable and involve the use of other research methods as well.