Year of sustainability, openness, and new roles: A Ukrainian university library in wartime

Objective. The aim of this publication is to determine an effective approach to managing a university library in crisis conditions of martial law and to identify factors that affect the quality of implementing this approach. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, critical changes have taken place in the real working conditions in the front-line areas of Ukraine. The resumption of work at the university and all its departments required the implementation of new management approaches. The main available mode of work, which ensured the safety of all participants in the educational and scientific process, was remote work. Methods. An analysis of scientific publications on the research topic was conducted. The report examines an approach based on the concept of shared leadership for organizing the virtual work of the university library. The optimality of this approach in organizing the work of employees in a virtual environment was determined and justified based on empirical methods. Results. The use of the shared leadership concept demonstrated the highest effectiveness. Conditions for the effective application of this approach to management using shared leadership are described. Conclusions. Therefore, we believe that shared leadership can become the optimal approach to organizing the virtual work of the library in the crisis conditions of martial law. Based on practical experience, two main groups of factors for the successful implementation of shared leadership have been identified.

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Shared Leadership as the Foundation of University Library Management in Crisis Conditions of Martial Law

ODNOVOLYKOVA,

HLAVCHEVA

2023

“…According to Tetyana Kolesnykova, a leading Ukrainian scientist in the field of librarianship, among the complex of innovative library services and creative solutions to support the creation, organization of access, dissemination, control and effective presentation of the achievements of the university scientists in the global information space, there is an important lever among the support services of scientific developments. It is the dissemination of the results of scientific research by scientists in the national and global scientific information space (Kolesnykova, 2023). With the aim of popularizing the science of the university, the SL UzhNU started the creation of representative virtual collections of materials of the university's scientists, aimed at spreading the achievements of scientists in the global Internet space.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Representative Virtual Material Collections about University Scientists: The Experience of the Uzhhorod National University Library

MEDVED

2023

Objective. The research is aimed at studying practical experience of creation and application of the representations of virtual material collections about the scientists of the Uzhhorod National University, as one of the important popularization mechanisms of the university science. Methods. Using our own developments, we attempted to familiarize the library community with the specialized methodology of representation work of the scientific library of the Uzhhorod National University during quarantine restrictions and martial law in Ukraine. Using the comparative analysis, the efficiency of the representations of virtual material collections, created by the library as publicizing the development of university science and culture of the region and the interest of remote users in them has been proven. Results. The substantiation of the obtained results is based on the characteristics of the Uzhhorod National University library during remote work of the institution, aimed at increasing the interest of virtual users in the content of the library. The efficiency of using the method of representations of information products of libraries during the period of difficult physical access to the library funds of Ukraine has been confirmed. Analysis of the expansion of the library’s information services and the practical recommendations regarding the active popularization of scientists and prominent figures of the Zakarpattia region are considered as one of the methods of reorienting the work of the library and its services in accordance with today’s challenges. Conclusions. The important role of library support in the popularization of science and culture of the region, as an important factor of practical library assistance to society during the times of trials for Ukraine, has been confirmed.

“…The first works generalizing experience of survival, stability and adaptation of Ukrainian libraries to wartime conditions appeared in the scientific discourse (Kolesnykova, 2023). The scientist thoroughly studied the issue of adaptation of library teams of Ukrainian higher education institutions working under martial law, identified the main vectors of library activity, including distance, openness, unification and improvement of one whole information space.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cognitive Model of Library Management in Crisis Conditions

DAVYDOVA,

MARINA

2023

Objective. The article considers library management as a complex socio-communication system in conditions of uncertainty of the external environment. The essence and methods of cognitive library management as an effective means of overcoming instability and global challenges of the XXI century are substantiated. Methods. With the help of information analysis, the peculiarities of the cognitive approach to library management in a crisis situation were defined. Results. A conclusion is made regarding the effectiveness of cognitive analysis, in particular PEST and SWOT analysis, cognitive structuring technologies. Cognitive analysis is considered as a powerful tool for researching a certain state of the library in an unstable and poorly structured environment. The application of the cognitive modeling method was used to identify the components of library management in conditions of uncertainty. Conclusions. Attention is focused on the need to use cognitive modeling, which contributes to a better understanding of the problem situation, detection of contradictions and qualitative analysis of the library as a system. A cognitive model of library management based on knowledge application technology in the management and decision-making process and effective communication interaction is proposed.