Library Digitalization Policy: Trends and Directions of Implementation

The relevance. Institutional digitization policies are platforms for the sustainable functioning of the library in the digital environment, the preservation and dissemination of corporate and individual scientific achievements. The purpose of the research. Studying the directions of implementing digitalization policies to regulate the processes of managing electronic resources, ensuring access to information, and complying with legal norms in library activities. The methodology. Content analysis of scientific publications in combination with grouping methods and logical generalizations made it possible to determine the status and trends in the implementation of digitalization policy in libraries, archives, and management structures of the business sector. The results. The state of practical implementation of the library digitalization policy in terms of the implementation of automated library information systems for the formation of electronic library collections and access to them has been established. The scientific novelty. Relevant and priority software solutions for managing library collections, integrating digital libraries into knowledge management systems, and modernizing library information and search systems have been identified. The practical significance. The formation of a relevant and holistic institutional policy on the implementation of an automated information system is a condition for creating a digital library space. Conclusions. Modern libraries are actively implementing institutional policies of digitalization at all stages of the functioning of information resources. They are developing as hybrid information institutions that operate in a socio-cultural environment and combine traditional and digital services. The relevance of integrating innovative technologies (ABIS, RFID, artificial intelligence tools) to increase the efficiency of fund management is substantiated. Increasing the efficiency of fund management consists in integrating innovative technologies (ABIS, RFID, artificial intelligence tools). The experience of implementing innovative technologies for working with electronic resources and funds allows us to state the existence of a number of challenges regarding the conservation and preservation of digital content, the acquisition and availability of digital libraries, compliance with copyright, compliance with standards for processing and cataloging electronic resources, and staff competence. Optimization of models for integrating sources of scientific information, related data, and digital curation are important components of creating scientific electronic libraries. A system of criteria and requirements for the implementation of an automated library information system has been formulated, as well as ways to address the challenges of creating electronic catalogs and electronic library resources.