Professional training of librarians. The interaction of the university and the library

One of the ways to increase the competitiveness of graduates is to develop their practical skills. That can be achieved only through joint efforts of the university and its partners, who are the traditional base for practical training of students. Universities of culture have considerable experience in organizing practical training for future librarians gained for many years of their existence. University libraries in Barnaul and the scientific and technical library of Altai State Technical University (AltSTU) in particular traditionally are the main bases for practical training of students of the Faculty of Information Resources and Design of Altai State Academy of Culture and Arts (ASACA). At the Faculty the programs of practical training for students of the second, third, fourth, and fifth year have been developed. Goals and objectives of the training, individual tasks to be performed by a student in the library are worked out and given in the programs. It helps the head of the practical training to determine the kind of work, to prepare a specific list of tasks for the students. Due to the fact that the library cooperates with ASACA in this direction for many years, tasks relate to plans of departments. Every year the library takes 10-12 students of the second, third, fourth, and fifth year for practical training. A high enough level of students' training allows them to perform important tasks at their workplace. They often tend to return to our library for the next practical training period. Students who have passed the so-called "pass-through" practice, i.e. working in the same library throughout the whole training period, have the opportunity to learn all the processes and operations more deeply, starting with the library collection development, readers' registration and with an analysis of the organization of the library work as a whole. During the practical training students realize significance and necessity of their work. They understand that library staff is care of trainees' impression of the library. The presentation of practical training results is necessary. The board consists of the library director, the head of practical training of ASACA, heads of the departments in which students worked. During presentations in addition to evaluation of the trainees work, the important point is exchange of opinions about things they liked and exchange of suggestions for improvement of the library work. In recent years it has become a tradition to hold public presentations of practical training results at the Faculty of Information Resources and Design to heads of practical training of different libraries. Library staff is also invited to the open sessions conducted by the forth-year students, where they present their methodological developments. Undoubtedly it helps to strengthen the contacts of teachers and students of the university with the library environment, with the practices of librarianship. But above all, it helps to train the qualified personnel for libraries with the actual current needs.

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