Keyword: «classification of scientific libraries»

The relevance of the research topic is due to the fact that in recent years, teachers and employees of the scientific library note the following phenomenon - in the process of educational activities at the university, students actively use the materials from the Internet, not using the educational resources of scientific libraries. This problem resulted in the low attendance of scientific libraries and reduced reading of scientific literature in general, which largely affected their academic results. The author notes the following main functions of the scientific library: educational, cultural, information and communication. The main function of the scientific library, educational, is characterized as contributing to the education and self-education of students by means of scientific literature. The author reveals the specificity of the scientific library, which consists in the fact that it was established and functioned to meet the information needs of the intellectual elite of society in the most changeable and developing spheres of culture – science and education. The scientific library has always been faced with the task of equally fulfilling the educational function, which was the obligation to provide users with comprehensive scientific information in all spheres of knowledge. The study, analysis and generalization of scientific literature, characterizing the typology of scientific libraries, made it possible to determine the classification of scientific libraries. The purpose of the article is to study the specific features of the educational potential of scientific libraries. Objectives of the article: 1) to reveal the educational potential of the scientific library, 2) to find the reasons for the decrease in the systematic use of educational resources of the scientific library in the process of educational activities by students. Methodological approaches to the study of the scientific library as a component of the educational system were the following: systemic, reflecting the philosophical ideas of integrity, organization, interaction of the system with the external environment, studied in the scientific works of I. V. Blauberg, E. G. Yudin; historical, organically combined with cultural studies approach, developed in the works of L. Wilson, L. S. Vygotsky, Yu. M. Lotman and other domestic and foreign scientists, which allows us to study the scientific library as a cultural and educational phenomenon. Methods used by the author to achieve the goal: analysis of scientific literature, survey, questionnaire, generalization of the obtained information, analysis of the results. The theoretical results of the research may be interesting to university teachers and employees of scientific libraries; practical results may be used for the development of methodological materials on the formation of students' motivation for professional education in the conditions of scientific libraries.