SCHOOL INFORMATION AND LIBRARY CENTRE AS THE RESOURCE FOR DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION CULTURE OF PARTICIPANTS OF EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

Abstract

In the light of intensification and overwhelming digitalization of information processes and increasing their significance for educational activity, the question of information culture development is rather relevant for all the participants of educational relationships. It is noted that the success of this process is achieved by creating the unified information space in the margins of the school information and library centre. The purpose of this study is to reveal the influence of resources of the school information and library centre on the development of information culture of participants of educational process. The analysis of scientific materials proves the multi-aspect nature of information culture. The researchers clarify its content as the whole of the information literacy, the information interaction and the information thinking. The methodological basis of the study is an idea of educative nature of school environment. This can be realized by creating information-digital environment of a school. The work identifies the model elements of the school information and library centre. Results of the study are presented in description of the school experience. The authors describe 3-year working experience of Municipal Educational Institution “Comprehensive Secondary School №5 indepth study of mathematics” (Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinskaya Oblast). Working as the region innovative platform, the researchers identify perspectives in organization of interaction among participants of educational process aimed for information culture development: the use of social partners’ resources, creation of extracurricular activities, realization of educational projects and educational events, promoting work for parents. There is an increase in involving schoolchildren in these activities, and the authors mark an increase in the level of information culture, too. The paper offers criteria and scorecard for measuring the efficiency of work of the school information and library centre. The theoretical value lies in grounding of elements of information culture; identification of opportunities for its development based on the resources of the school information and library center; modeling of information-educational environment elements. The practical significance includes developed and tested forms and methods of developing the information culture of participants of educational relations and methodological support (the course of extracurricular activities, the set of lessons created with the help of resources of B. Yeltsin Presidential Library, methodological recommendations for organizing educational projects and events, topics for mutual discussion with parents). The work presents experience of implementation of the extracurricular course, educational projects and educational events.