The Role of the Library in the Digital Economy.

AUTOMATION; BUSINESS; DATABASE management; INFORMATION resources management; INFORMATION storage & retrieval systems; INFORMATION technology; INTERNET; LIBRARIES; SOCIAL networks; SOCIAL role; SYSTEM analysis; OCCUPATIONAL adaptation

The gradual transition to a digital economy requires all business entities to adapt to the new environmental conditions that are taking place through their digital transformation. These tasks are especially relevant for scientific libraries, as digital technologies make changes in the main subject field of their activities, the processes of creating, storing, and information disseminating. In order to find directions for the transformation of scientific libraries and determine their role in the digital economy, a study of the features of digital transformation and the experience of the digital transformation of foreign libraries was conducted. Management of research data, which is implemented through the creation of Current Research Information Systems (CRIS) was found to be one of the most promising areas of the digital transformation of libraries. The problem area of this direction and ways of engaging libraries in it have been also analyzed in the work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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