LIBRARY LOCAL HISTORY AS A TEACHING DISCIPLINE
Requirements for library professionals engaged in the activities of local history on the basis of the professional standard and practice analysis have been determined in the article. The purpose of this work is to determine how training in higher library education on the problems of library local history is conducted. The basic university educational programs in the direction of “Library Information Activities” have been studied. 23 basic university educational programs including the disciplines on library local history have been identified. The author has found out that curricula contains some disciplines, reflecting socio-economic, historical, cultural, literary direction of development of the region in general and the disciplines directly related to the library local history. The study determined that training the ethnographers in higher library education is not carried out within the framework of the integrated course, but mainly through the development of the individual disciplines of humanitarian, socio-economic, professional orientation. A certain closeness of universities in the provision of training courses on the content of library local history was revealed, in particular, it failed to identify the socio-cultural aspects of teaching, design technologies in local history library activities. More active and careful consideration to the problem of teaching local history disciplines within the scientific and practical activities and publication of scientific and educational collections on the subject may become a possible solution of this problem. It was determined that universities have unique authors' courses reflecting the specific character of regional studies of some territories. It is necessary to establish cooperation between universities and libraries to implement the exchange of teaching methods of local history disciplines. The library local history as a teaching discipline is one of the most complex and dynamic areas of library education; it requires complex knowledge and active cooperation between universities and library practice.