Components of the Library Specialist’s Digital Culture

Abstract

Today, library specialists are increasingly confident in providing webometric support for users’ research, mastering technologies for reflecting the results of Ukrainian researchers in international science metric databases, constantly improving their skills in information analytics, creating and maintaining library sites, blogs, and social network accounts.The presented article reveals the essence and correlation of such concepts as «digital skills», «digital literacy», «digital competence», «digital dividends», «digital intelligence», «digital culture». There are justified components of a digital culture library specialist as unity digital world, digital business and digital creativity, the formation of which will contribute to the success achievement and competitive advantages in the digital economy development and the knowledge society.A conceptual model for the formation of the basic components of digital culture of a modern library specialist has been outlined. It has been noted that working with large volumes of digital information requires a high level of emotional intelligence from the librarian, the ability to concentrate and manage attention, the ability to quickly relearn, tune in to constant development and improvement.To achieve the goal set in the research, we used terminological and comparative methods, as well as the method of conceptual modeling. This allowed us to identify and analyze the basic concepts of the subject area «digital culture», to determine the components of the conceptual model of a library specialist’ digital culture and which will allow us to substantiate the theoretical foundations of its effective formation.It has been proved that knowledge of the content and component composition of digital culture is the key to developing organizational and methodological foundations for its effective formation. At the same time, it is necessary to take into account the communication essence of the library profession, which equips librarians with a powerful arsenal of knowledge, skills, worldview guidelines and means of forming not only their own digital culture, but also library users and society as a whole.