Strategy of professional interaction in training professionals in the library and information sphere

Abstract

Training of library professionals in the circumstances of transforming modern society is examined. The reasons for deteriorating librarian image are discussed, along the ways to preserve and prospects for the profession. The resources for library profession and libraries modernization within the context of developing library higher school based on sciences convergence, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity are specified. The relevance and prospects for library profession, social and economic efficiency of library activities are examined with consideration of triad functional relations between libraries — higher professional schools — science. The transition to the new educational paradigm in the library and information sphere is examined against the background of the developing library innovative activity and the National Project “The culture” (2019–2024). The focus is also made on educating bachelors and masters in the discipline “Library and information work” (federal education standard FGOS 3++). The project activities are seen as a means of sociocultural design with the library and information instruments. The professional interaction in education is developing within the subject scope reflection contradictions between the sociocultural paradigm of the higher education and the pragmatic intellectual labor market, and between the higher school’s assessment scale and the market.