THE PROBLEM OF MAKING RATIONAL DECISIONS IN THE REFINED OPTIMIZATION PROBLEM OF CHOOSING PRINTED PUBLICATIONS FROM A VARIETY OF ALTERNATIVES OFFERED BY BOOK PUBLISHERS

Abstract

The transition mainly to a distance learning format for teaching staff over 65 years of age in the higher education system, due to the complex epidemiological situation in the world associated with the emergence and spread of new strains of coronavirus infection, has updated the problem of completing the library fund of the university library with popular printed publications in a new way. The authors of the article considered it expedient to include the format of study at the university or the correlating factor of the teacher's age in the mathematical model of acquisition of the library fund with demanded printed publications among the educational and organizational factors affecting the demand for educational literature, and to assess its impact on the target function of the demand for printed publications. The conducted research has shown that the introduced factor is significant and significantly affects the demand for educational literature and, as a result, should be included in the developed mathematical model formulated in the form of an optimization problem. Taking into account the results obtained in the course of the scientific research, it is proposed to strengthen the teaching and methodological activities of the teaching staff in order to improve the quality of the acquisition of the library fund of the university library with popular educational literature in the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic. The article focuses on the possibility of finding only rational solutions in the initial and refined optimization problem of choosing printed publications from a variety of alternatives offered by book publishers, since it describes the functioning of the university library as an organizational and technical system with such qualities as, for example, multidimensionality, self-organization and complexity.