COMPETENT SPECIALIST - THE KEY TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIBRARIES
The article defines the professional skills that are necessary in order to engage in library activities in the future. What competencies describe the factors that enable employees to fulfill their role? Typically, the roles in the library were as follows: librarian, senior librarian, library director. This is no longer the case in many libraries. Libraries are much more than just a place where you go to borrow books, so library staff must have a diverse range of skills. Having the right competencies is essential for successful work. The introduction of the Federal State Standards (FSES) in the higher education system makes it possible to improve the quality of training of specialists. The professional competencies that are laid down in FSES3 ++ are defined as universal and are understood as the ability to search, critically analyze and synthesize information to solve assigned tasks. The quality of higher education in modern conditions is a consequence of contradictions, on the one hand, the spirit of innovations and their normative design, on the other, the ideas of a new image of a young specialist, the process of his training, supported by university practice and traditions of domestic education. We need to train specialists who have a higher education and an open citizenship, as well as deep knowledge of literature, culture and librarianship. This will benefit society at a time when maintaining literacy is increasingly rare. How this will be achieved in the future, only time will tell.