Умения и компетенции на библиотечно-информационните специалисти: Очаквания към подготовката на новопостъпващи специалисти в университетска библиотека „Св. Климент Охридски“
Skills and Competences of Library and Information Specialists: Expectations to the new Librarians at Sofia University library “St. Kliment Ohridski”

Summary/Abstract: The dynamic world implies periodic studies related to the skills and competences of professionals in different professional fields and areas. Libraries are in a process of transformation brought by changes in scholarly communication, access to information resources and management of library processes that require specific skills and competences. This publication provides an overview of the development of the idea of training library professionals and library education in Bulgaria. It reviews the trends in the staffing of the Sofia University Library “St. Kliment Ohridski”, focusing on the number of staff and its age structure. The profile of the new professionals in the library is analysed, highlighting the main challenges both for the staff and for the library in the process of adaptation to the work process. The required skills and competences that library professionals should have today are formulated. They are analysed in the context of the Sofia University Library “St. Kliment Ohridski”.

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