FORMING OF A PROFESSIONAL IDEAL WHEN TRAINING LIBRARIANS

An ideal is a significant component of the processes of self-education and professional formation, constituting the basis of an individual’s value consciousness and determining the life strategy of a student – the future specialist. Professional ideals form the student’s worldview and professional orientation, which is expressed in his behavior and attitude to reality. In psychological and pedagogical literature, the professional ideal is interpreted today as an image of professional excellence, as the supreme desired goal, idea and dream. Recently, we have witnessed a significantly increased interest of the foreign and domestic scientific community in the problem of the professional ideal and the features of its formation, which is associated with the general vectors of social development – modernization and democratization of all its spheres. Empirical studies of students’ professional values – that are engaged in the library field of preparation – show that traditionally the book is considered as the main value object, and often many of them explain their professional choice by the fact that they love the book, they cannot imagine their lives without it. Moreover, the undoubted general cultural value – the book – for the student – the future librarian is not only an object of reading, but also an important object of professional activity around which communication with the reader takes place, the meaning and purpose of the library. Reading is, in most cases, the necessary element of the student’s professional ideal. The future librarian should be an active, qualified reader, involved in book culture since his childhood, who cannot imagine his life without a home library, probably collected by his parents or, quite the reverse, begun to be formed by him. Broad reading interests, good literary taste, knowledge of literature and bibliography are the main characteristics of the future specialist in the library field. Students’ awareness of the essence of professional values, formation of their set and certainty in professional ideals contribute to the valuebased behavior and professional orientation, which lead to adequate ideas about the kernel and specifics of professional activities.