The Current State of Ukrainian Bibliography: Prospects for Overcoming the Crisis Situation

Abstract

The relevance of the research. Experts ascertain the crisis state of modern book study. We consider it necessary to understand the essence of the crisis as a phenomenon and to understand whether it really is fraught with danger, or vice versa, it can breathe new life into book study in the context of the transformation of book industries in the digital environment.
 The purpose of our scientific research is to analyze the state of modern book study in Ukraine and outline ways out of the crisis.
 The methodology. The study was conducted using the method of analyzing.
 The results. The status of modern as a scientific and educational discipline is considered. The following activities are proposed: revision of the object of bibliography, expansion of the scope of scientific research of bibliography due to the “return” of the figures of the author and reader, consideration of book communication and the processes taking place in it in a new communicative reality in integrity and interconnection, without breaking it into separate branches, parallel use as synchrony and diachrony in the analysis of the processes taking place in the book industry, the active involvement of comparative methods of analysis, as well as the productive involvement of the methodological apparatus of other sciences, the return to the socio-communicative approach as the main one in bibliography, the unification of the efforts of all those who in one way or another are involved in book industry, regardless of how they pose themselves in the scientific community.
 The scientific topicality. An analysis of the current state of bibliography and the outlined prospects for overcoming the crisis can become a methodological basis for the further transformation of bibliography in the context of digital reality.
 The practical significance. The results of the study can be used in the formation of a strategy for the development of bibliography.