Learning and Libraries in an Information Age

This book helps students to understand the development of information technologies and their implementation in the field of library sciences for practice of the educational process. This book specifies the needs of students for understanding and learning library sciences in this information age, its personalization, personification, ways of realization, semantic constructs and dispositions of libraries.

Generalized ideas of technologies are grouped in this book, characterizing the directions of pedagogical support of students in the learning process. This book focuses reduction of negative experiences, restoration of “missing” experiences, and formation of positive experiences (psychological block of technologies). Additionally, it focuses on personified training, teambuilding technologies, reflexive technologies (psychological and pedagogical unit) and technologies aimed at addressing issues of contact, co-creation, and cooperation in joint creative activity of a pedagogical unit. The developed technologies for the implementation of dialogue-experiences in the practice of the educational process, will allow the educators to deployment of the educational technology and provide the teacher with “soft” management in the educational process.

The book combines latest research on information technologies, educational theories, and effective educational practices for creation of a learning centered library for new generation. This book is designed to introduced students and educators to the new world of modernized libraries in the information age. This book provides concise information on modern libraries and helps students to learn core knowledge in this area, such as impact of internet on libraries and modernized system of libraries in information age.