Model for regional librarians’ advanced training at a modern university library

Abstract

The experience of Zonal Scientific Library of B. Yeltsin Ural Federal University in designing the model of professional interaction of the Urals university libraries is discussed. Various training and teaching formats are described, among them interactive research and methodological conferences, Ural Center’s ARBICON Projects, and publishing annual research and practice collection of works on the academic libraries’ problems. The author reviews in detail two programs being in high demand, namely Information Bibliographic Support of Academic Publications (updated since 2017) and Libraries in the Modern Information Education Space . She also emphasizes that the Ural ARBICON Projects Center invites expert lecturers and is focused on the newest trends in librarianship. The Center also promotes practical components of education. Beside the mentioned advantages, the students appreciate the low costs and dormitory housing for those who need it. The author concludes that the proposed model of advanced training of the Ural academic librarians is very viable, and that its components complement each other, is open for administration and motivates students’ creativity.