Training of Masters for the Library Industry in the Context of the Professional Standard “Specialist in Library and Information Activities” Requirements

The article considers innovations in the Master’s Degree Program of the Library and Information Faculty of the St. Petersburg State Institute of Culture introduced on March 1, 2023, meeting the requirements of the Professional Standard “Specialist in Library and Information Activities”. The purpose of the article is to evaluate the content of innovations in the educational Master’s Program of the Library and Information Faculty of SPbSIС, to present some ideas for further perfection of the native library Master’s institute. The changes have affected the name of the educational program, the content of professional competencies, names, composition, and selectively the content of academic disciplines. Six new competencies have been proposed instead of the previous seven, focused on generalized work functions of the seventh level of qualification established according to the above-mentioned Standard for the Master of Library and Information Activities (Bibliographic and information- analytical activities of the library; Library research, methodological and project activities; Organization of activities of the structural unit of the library). The research component has been strengthened in the practice block: instead of one academic research practice, a two–level research practice has been introduced (academic in the first year and production in the second year), the project practice has been replaced by organizational and managerial practice. The transformation of the Master’s Degree Program is incomplete yet. In the context of the “Strategy for the development of the education system until 2036 with a view to 2040” being developed at the present stage, it will inevitably be adjusted and updated in the context of digitalization and modernization of all sectors of the country’s economy.