What makes a school library modern? Free internet access? Fashionable boring design? All this, of course, is good and even necessary, but without a modern understanding of its functions, the library will remain a huge dusty "bookcase".

All over the world, a librarian is the most respected person, educated, erudite. And the school library is an office not only for information, but also spiritually nourishing. This is the heart, the brain of the school, it is a kind of psychological relaxation room, where it should be cozy and comfortable, light and beautiful. It should have all the best so that children reach for the library, which means they receive a decent education and develop spiritually.
But in fact?

What should a school library look like?

In the library (BIC), as well as in classrooms, there should be high-speed Internet, enough jobs (computers) and access to the Internet via a local network (or via wi-fi) for all users. The employees of this very BIC (librarians, specialists in reading, IT technologies) provide “information support for the educational activities of students and teachers based on modern information technologies in the field of library services ...”, and the BIC itself should be “staffed with printed and electronic information and educational resources in all subjects of the curriculum…”. And what is very important, in addition to educational, educational and methodical literature and “materials for all academic subjects and courses”, the school library fund on any media should be completed with additional literature, including “domestic and foreign, classical and modern fiction; popular science and scientific and technical literature; publications on fine arts, music, physical culture and sports, ecology, rules of safe behavior on the roads; reference-bibliographic and periodicals; collection of dictionaries; literature on social and professional self-determination of students”.

Well, the standard succinctly expresses the essence of what should correspond to the concept of "modern school library". Everything else should be reflected in the regulatory documents that answer the questions of what and how much should be in an educational institution to ensure the declared educational standard.

What needs to be done in order for a qualitatively new modern school library to appear and take root in a modern school?
In my opinion the following:

1. The school library is the most important part of the school infrastructure, the most important component of the pedagogical system of a general education institution. Without a good library, a school cannot realize its educational activities. The librarian should not be a "layer" between the teacher and the technical worker. It is necessary to introduce the qualification "librarian-teacher". A librarian, just like a teacher, teaches children smart, kind, eternal, protects and develops the interests of students. The librarian needs financial incentives, he should have a normal salary, and not the beggarly allowance that exists at the present time. At the state level, there should be public recognition of the librarian. And the librarian himself must be a professional, a person who not only uses all the forms and methods of traditional library activities, but also introduces innovations in his work. It is in the library that everything innovative can and should develop.

2. In recent years, we have only been talking about the fact that our children do not read much. CHILDREN READ. The question is, what are they reading? What can we give them with the poverty of our funds? Often, when you visit the library and see the squalor of books, the child loses the desire to visit it. There are no books that would interest the child. Old, dirty, dilapidated, they repel him from the book in general. All this leads to the fact that children rarely visit libraries.

For the successful implementation of the ideas of the new standard, library funds should be equipped with printed and electronic information and educational resources in all subjects of the curriculum, as well as additional literature on all types of information media.

3. All conditions must be created for working with information - this is a sufficient number of computers, printers, scanning and replicating devices for recording and processing information in various ways. Libraries should implement programs to automate library services for students.

4. The library should be provided not only with modern furniture and appliances, but also with consumables and stationery. The library premises must comply with sanitary and hygienic standards, have sufficient space and lighting. Creating such a comfortable library environment will certainly lead to interest not only in the library, but also in the book.

5. And most importantly, school leaders should not be formally responsible for the library - acquisition of library collections and providing the library with everything necessary for work. In order to solve these problems, financial resources are needed, which the school does not have for the library. This means that librarians work on sheer enthusiasm, which leads to poor quality service for school students and does not meet the requirements for the results of the work of school libraries in the context of the implementation of plans.

The global crisis of libraries in the digital age has been talked about for a long time and a lot, and, fortunately, over the past five years, these conversations have increasingly touched on real examples of how to overcome the crisis. If in the general case we are talking about the fact that the library should be rebuilt in order to perform an educational function, then in the case of the school, pedagogical functions are assigned to it.

The library is not a huge bookcase, but a space with great potential for the all-round development of the individual. The main thing is to unleash this potential. How to instill in modern children a love of reading? How to make the school space more friendly, open and adapted for modern education? How to teach children information literacy? - these three questions, perhaps, describe the range of tasks facing the modern school library.

When in the early 2000s the German public was alarmed by the crisis in education, which was demonstrated by the results of PISA, the Foundation. Bertelsman developed the program "Public Library and School". The fact is that in Germany not every school has its own library, and the PISA results showed "failures" in precisely those skills of children that are associated with reading. The Foundation's program provides recommendations on how to use the possibilities of libraries in order to "bring up" schoolchildren in their ability to read and search for information. For this it was suggested:

• Recognize that information search skills are one of the basic ones, and the library is a place where these skills can and should be developed.
• Create conditions so that teachers can teach librarians pedagogical techniques, and librarians teachers - the ability to work with information.
• Consider the library as a space for individual education.

These basic recommendations show that the library for the school is a resource for solving problems that are not always possible to complete in the classroom. If in the classes children are guided to a greater or lesser extent by the teacher, then the library should create an environment in which the child can and wants to independently choose what and when to read, unobtrusively mastering the skills of independent work with information.

As for the love of reading, here school libraries may need to decide on more daring experiments than literary and poetry evenings in renovated interiors.

12/04/2015, Fri, 11:25, Msk

Russian school libraries will be transformed into modern information centers that will advance the old library system into the new digital era. The concept of modernization even includes an online game with a student career simulator. Transformations can open up new opportunities for domestic developers.

At the end of November 2015, the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, the Russian School Library Association (RSBA) and the Scientific Pedagogical Library named after. K.D. Ushinsky organized a discussion of the draft Concept for the development of a national network of information and library centers (ILCs). By 2020, school libraries will be upgraded and become ILCs - a new generation of information learning platforms where you can play, learn and communicate using the latest technologies.

The IBC development concept presents the school library as a public space with a collaborative work area, a media library and a knowledge base for students and teachers. Updated libraries with high-tech devices, upholstered furniture, a playground and free Wi-Fi should attract teachers and students, become a place where you can spend time interestingly and profitably.

In addition, as part of the modernization of the national network of information and library centers, for the first time in Russia, modern gaming technologies will be used to solve the difficult problem of choosing a future profession. To do this, it is planned to create a special online game in which users can try themselves in different professions, build a virtual career, acquire professional communication skills and work together on projects. Library staff will play a key role in this game.

Modernization and the demands of the times

Over the past 20 years, the learning process has changed a lot. Schoolchildren learn not only at school, but also at home, and in the process of communicating with their peers. Increasingly, information technologies are being used, primarily remote learning, Internet and mobile devices. Sometimes schoolchildren completely “disconnect” from the school ecosystem, preferring learning and communication outside of school. At the same time, students lack knowledge about the ethics of Internet communication, information assessment and collaboration skills, which are very important for the future integration of young people into society and for a successful career. Most countries are looking for an optimal model of school education that could solve this problem without a negative bias towards full control over the initiative and free time of children.

The computer and the Internet have become an important part of the educational process

Libraries play an important role in creating a friendly and efficient school ecosystem, and library staff are given a leadership role in learning and information management. The Russian concept of IBC at first glance takes into account all these aspects. But can it help in adapting the existing school system to the new realities of the information age?

Online game - a special direction

A special place in the Development Concept of the National IBC Network is occupied by an online role-playing game that will help schoolchildren choose their future profession and understand the principles of building a successful career. In the game, users will be able to choose different professions, study their features and gain game points in lessons, olympiads and in mind games.

Abroad, coworking (collaboration) zones are widely used for practical training

The online game will be built on professional trajectories from real life. Interest groups and joint educational projects will become analogues of gaming communities and missions. At the same time, the library employee will become a “master of the game” and will help choose the best scenarios and solve problems.

According to the head of the Library named after K. D. Ushinsky, this online project will combine play and learning. At the same time, for a library worker, the game can become a means of attracting schoolchildren to the library and one of the ways to build cooperation with teachers.

“Now both children and adults love to play online games,” says Alexey Gabov. - In the game project for IBC, you can combine studies with the "pumping" of the character, and his development will be the development of the student himself. Additional "achievements" (achievements) and game bonuses can be obtained by completing tasks in the classroom, participating in olympiads, or simply reading books.

The plot study is a matter of the future, it is still difficult to name the timing of the implementation and the specific developer of the online game. Ideally, the project should have most of the real key professions. It should be a full-fledged expandable game universe, in which there are entrepreneurs, and civil servants, and social workers, a hiring process is simulated and a serious economy. Creating such a unique game is a long process, and so far this process is at the conceptual design stage.

There are various simpler educational games in Russia and abroad. This area is actively developing, but so far this is a game-based learning of some specific knowledge, that is, receiving a separate educational module is being translated into a game form.

Modern role-playing online games are popular with children and adults. Similar games can be used for learning

For example, abroad there is a game Classcraft, but in it the emphasis is not on career guidance, but not on work in the classroom. It's not a career sim, but more of a variant of Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop RPGs. The basis of the game plot is homework, good behavior in the classroom, and the like.

You can recall the game Minecraft, which is included in the mandatory educational program in Finland. Or Second Life, which is also used for education. Both are game universes, but in them education and career development are not the basis of the game story.

Initiative and freedom

The concept of modernization of school libraries involves the involvement of schoolchildren and teachers in independent learning and self-development using multimedia resources, the Internet and comfortable work areas.

Cataloging is a separate serious problem of school libraries, which is planned to be solved in the ILC

In the modernized libraries, the teacher will be able to prepare materials for the lesson, study the latest methods, and create a pedagogical portfolio for certification. Thanks to electronic services, it will be easier to check knowledge, accumulate and disseminate the most effective teaching methods.

For students, new libraries should become a place for communication and intellectual development, a platform where you can learn how to apply knowledge in practice. At the same time, the entrance to the school library will be open to everyone, and not just schoolchildren. This also applies to cooperation with development funds, attracting funds from charitable organizations and individuals.

Some technologies cannot be used at home. In the library, separate rooms can be provided for them.

The authors of the IBC concept assign a special role to cooperation with developers and suppliers of high-tech educational products: virtual and augmented reality helmets, interactive whiteboards, etc. Mutually beneficial cooperation in this area opens up opportunities for all participants and will help to quickly introduce new technologies into the educational process. Thus, information and library centers will become a platform for Russian IT companies to test and implement advanced developments.

You can always see when a person works not just to earn a living, but puts his whole soul into his work. It is always interesting to communicate with such a person and share experience. On May 4, a whole constellation of such people attended the seminar. Perhaps that is why the official event was a gift for those who are eager to work.

I was very happy for my colleagues, because I know that it is difficult to rock the whole school for any activity, and in our time, not everyone can captivate with reading. Enthusiasts stood on the stage.
A real gift for school librarians was the presence at the seminar of the President of the Association of School Librarians (RSBA), Ph.D. ped. Sciences Tatyana Dmitrievna Zhukova.

I met Tatyana Dmitrievna at the World Forum of the International Association of School Libraries IASL-2014. Then she struck me with her simplicity in communication and sincere love for her work. Three years later, T.D. Zhukova continues to say that the librarian is the main specialist in human capital management, that the school can be immediately identified by the library. Tatyana Dmitrievna, emphasized the role of the school librarian in the educational process, as a specialist in working with information.
A very interesting experience was brought by T. D. Zhukova from Shanghai. There, schools teach not only children, but there are also special lessons for parents on pedagogy, psychology and TEACHING CONSCIOUS AND EMOTIONAL READING. In this country, they understand that this is the only way to grow competent specialists for their state.
The speech of Vaulina Larisa Fraunzevna, director of MBOU secondary school No. 32 in Krasnodar, was very interesting. On the basis of her school, an internship site was created on the topic "Development of the information and library center."

Of course, everyone wanted to see what school libraries would look like in the near future, and the director invited us to visit the school library, the library of school No. 32.
What I saw exceeded all my expectations. Watch and enjoy what will happen to us in the future.

Workplace of the librarian.

Individual places for reading.

Reading comfort zone.

Reading room.

Reading room, computer area.

The place of the best reader.

And this is me, in a blue dream.

Everything in the library is automated. It was a great discovery for me that there is already a new library automation program, and that barcoding is already a passed stage.
This was told by the director of Avid-system LLC Tokmaev Vyacheslav Viktorovich from Yekaterinburg.

He told the audience about the program in great detail. SAB IRBMS64, which significantly reduces the most labor-intensive costs in time: in this way, in 2-3 hours, you can make a complete inventory in the school library, it takes a few minutes to issue textbooks, etc. And the most important thing, in my opinion, is that the representatives of this company do not leave the library after the delivery of the equipment. And they themselves enter the entire collection into the system, check the operation of the machines and train librarians for several months.

Why such happiness at the Krasnodar school. It turns out that everything is very simple - the school won a grand prize in one of the competitions and it was decided to spend the money on the transformation of the library. I think that our colleagues from this school have proven time and time again that they deserve to work in the library of the future.

P.S. There was still a lot of interesting things at the seminar, and I will definitely share the experience of my colleagues in the next publications.

Bedina I.P.

What is the modern school library like? Significant changes in public education that have taken place in recent years have influenced the development of the school library. With the advent of schools - gymnasiums, lyceums of schools with in-depth study of various subjects or languages, the role of the library has become a higher rank. Trends in the specialization of the educational process require from the library, on the one hand, the availability of highly specialized literature, and on the other hand, the improvement and technical equipment of the library. So, what kind of library does a school need, what requirements should it meet, what new content will it be filled with, what place should it take in the process of teaching and educating schoolchildren? It is impossible to answer all these questions within the framework of one article, so I considered my main task to describe the system of work of our school library that has developed over many years, reflecting the most important aspects of the librarian's activity.

The school library is a small but universal mass library, therefore it has all its features and peculiarities. The complexity of the work of a librarian in it lies in the fact that he alone has to engage in a variety of activities, from the design of the library premises to the preparation of accounting documents, etc. that has nothing to do with serving readers. In this regard, in my opinion, the main thing in the work of a school librarian is the correct organization of all aspects of activity. At the same time, it is necessary to maintain balance, equilibrium, “ golden mean”between the numerous responsibilities and opportunities of the library, because usually there is only one librarian at school, and everything depends on his organization: there is no one to wait for help from. I tried to bring into the system all aspects of the work of the school library and depicted it in the form of a diagram shown in the figure.

This scheme is rather arbitrary, but it gives a visual representation of all aspects of the work of the school library.

A few words about the basic principles of fund acquisition, the main of which are:

multiple instances of software literature,

multiple copies of literature on extracurricular reading for primary school students,

availability of anthologies and collections of literature used in the educational process,

replenishment of the fund with new editions of reference literature and methodological literature.

The fund of the school library has been created for decades and requires both a careful approach to its design, and painstaking and nervous work to preserve it. Maintaining a fund is no easier, if not more difficult, than accumulating it.

After all, sometimes you have to overcome the irresponsibility of readers: students and teachers.

Unfortunately, the most "brutal" methods have to be used in order to force the reader to return books to the library.

A properly stocked fund is the basis of a library; if there is no fund, there are no readers, no work.

The main book fund of our library has approximately 16 thousand books, 1.5 thousand brochures and about 20 thousand textbooks, the book value of the fund is 100 thousand rubles. The number of readers is maintained from year to year and fluctuates between 850 - 900 readers, which is 80 - 85% of the school's payroll;

In order to cope with such a volume of work, one person needs to properly organize the work within the library, which is not visible, but should occupy a leading place in the work of a librarian. Every day, the library must be ready to serve readers quickly.

Library work includes:

Recording books taken by readers; arrangement of reader's forms by classes; arranging books handed over by readers on the shelves; selection of reader requests by topic; filling in the library diary (number of readers who signed up for the library); filling out financial documents; selection of literature for teachers for lessons; directory management and more

Library work must be done during the day and nothing should be left “for tomorrow”.

The specificity of serving readers in the school library is the uneven arrival of readers, when 15-20 people need to be served in 15 minutes of a break. This is very difficult to do, as reader requests are very different. If a book by a particular author or title is required, the librarian must know whether it is in the library or not, and therefore can quickly serve the reader. For more complex queries, I use a card file of reader applications, which indicates the topic for selecting literature. The reader comes for books after lessons. When it is not possible to find the right book from the subscription fund, the reader is invited to work in the reading room, where there is mainly reference literature from thematic dictionaries to universal encyclopedias. Our library has accumulated a large number of dictionaries, reference books, encyclopedias on various topics. A variety of reference literature enables students, without leaving the walls of the school, to look for the necessary material. The most popular with us is the latest edition of the Children's Encyclopedia, published by the Avanta publishing house. I would like to note that the lack of funding in recent years greatly complicates the acquisition of new volumes of the encyclopedia. But we use every opportunity to replenish the library. Thus, the last volumes of the encyclopedia were purchased with the money received from the school-wide collection of waste paper. I will not dwell on the reader service technology, it is approximately the same for everyone. I will note an attempt to introduce a personal computer (PC) to organize catalogs and subscriptions.

As shown in the diagram, work with the reader has various forms that are not directly related to the lending of books. The librarian talks about the latest in literature, going to the classrooms to students with reviews, invites the children to the library to pay attention to the new exhibition.

Exhibitions, as one of the important forms of developing students' interest in books, tell the book collections, introduce the names of writers, discover new names and titles of books, inform about the writer of the anniversary, show the possibilities of printing art, invite you to enter the world of unread books. Exhibitions can be divided into cycle and thematic, personal and information. It is interesting to keep statistics taken from the exhibition of books. Of the exhibitions I have made recently, the most successful exhibitions have turned out to be “Petersburg in Russian Poetry”, “The Soul of Petersburg”, “Golden-domed Moscow”, “In Secret to the Whole World”.

The guys are interested in books, ask for books from exhibitions, some of them even formed a queue.

One of the interesting forms of work of a librarian together with a teacher is extra-curricular reading of students.

Figure - a diagram of the main forms of work of the school library

Write-off

L. A. Borisova Head of the Culture Department of the Raduga-LIK Production Association, Ryazan

The rapid development of information technology in the last two decades has made the question of the role of the library in modern society relevant, which is regarded as an information center that provides access to the digitized resources of all libraries in the world, and a cultural and leisure center that focuses on various forms of mass work with the reader.

We, the developers and manufacturers of Raduga-LIK library equipment, see the library as an information, cultural and spiritual center, a kind of bridge between the classical cultural heritage and modernity. First of all, this concerns the school library, which, in our opinion, can adequately fulfill the educational function of education.

Let's clarify our position. The spread of the Internet has certainly given us access to a vast amount of information. But, like any powerful tool used unchecked, network wealth has a number of side effects that society is already experiencing. Scattered attention, the habit of jumping from news to news, not dwelling on what was read, the lack of desire to formulate one's own thoughts, replaced by reading other people's superficial comments, give rise to Internet addiction. First of all, this concerns children, in whom the ability to think independently in such conditions has almost no chance of being formed. Reading any serious, deep literature without the skills of concentration of thought and independent analysis of the text becomes almost impossible.

Unfortunately, the density of the school curriculum does not allow teachers to linger for a long time on the study of individual works of the classics, not to mention educating students in the ability to read in the traditional sense of the word - not skimming the text in order to grab the main events, but trying on the thoughts and actions of the characters , catching hints and references scattered by the author, asking in the end the same questions that prompted the author to write the book. The aspect of moral development in reading classical literature thus remains unaffected. Who, if not a librarian, can and should stand up for the eternal values, the stronghold of which for previous generations of readers was classical literature?

Based on the triune concept of a modern school library - informational, cultural and spiritual - we designed the library space of the St. Petersburg secondary school "Education Center "Kudrovo"".

The school library includes a subscription, a reading room, a fund of textbooks and a media library.

In accordance with the principle of multifunctionality, the space of the reading room is equipped with transformable furniture and is divided into several zones.

The free work zone provides space for various types of group intellectual activities. For example, in the development of independent thinking of schoolchildren, the ability to analyze information and reasonably defend their position, discussion clubs are of great help.

We see the librarian as the organizer and leader of such clubs, focusing the attention of students on the acute problems of our time, as well as instilling the skills of a culture of discussion.

No less important is the active participation of the librarian in other school associations. For example, when staging plays in a school theater, a librarian can recommend literature about life, customs, manners of that time, critical articles that help to understand the author's intention. He can lead a political circle, in which, in addition to analyzing current events, their socio-economic background is analyzed and methods of influencing the electorate are studied. A cinema club that introduces schoolchildren to great films, a poetry club, a historical club, the editors of a school website - an analogue of a traditional wall newspaper - all this can reveal the intellectual and moral potential of a student, become a place of live communication between children and adults.

Multifunctional furniture made by us - such as a multimedia rack with a computer and panels for drawing with a marker, as well as transformable "slide" modules, from which you can create multi-level seating rows and a stage for performances - is designed for all of the above activities. Among other things, this furniture complex allows you to conduct lessons and seminars that require connection to the global computer network.

Actual classes at the intersection of several disciplines are appropriate here, and the participation of a librarian who can help find the necessary information, recommend interesting resources, new works related to the topic under study, will be most welcome.

For younger students, there is a separate area with racks in the form of a train with trailers, Christmas trees and houses. On the play podium-slide with soft cushions, children can be seated during master classes or performances in the puppet theater with a screen, also included in the furniture set. Transforming tables on wheels, armchairs and chairs are designed for group work. As practice has shown, this zone is very popular among children.

The multimedia zone, designed for individual work with information, includes acoustic balloon chairs, soft cabin modules and open chairs for working with laptops and tablets, as well as separate tables - everyone can choose a seat according to their preferences. Rest islands are scattered throughout the territory - comfortable chairs for singles and sofas for companies.

In general, the design of the premises is aimed at making the person who comes here feel comfortable and at ease both during work and during leisure. As far as one can judge, the idea justified itself: the library is very popular among students who come here to study, communicate, and just relax between lessons.

Of course, new forms of work imply special requirements for a library employee: versatile erudition, communication skills, and the ability to navigate Internet resources. And the modern solutions we used are just a tool in the work of a teacher-librarian. He will become a guide through the network labyrinths for both students and teachers. Only he can "spiritualize" the library space, help the modern schoolchild to overcome the "cultural gap" between the problems of a consumer-oriented society and the eternal questions of humanity that permeate the world's classical literature.

Fortunately, just such a person is at the head of the library of the new Kudrovo school - Yulia Vyacheslavovna Kovalenko. And we allow ourselves to express the hope that through the joint efforts of teachers and librarians, the Internet will turn from a virtual world in which a child prefers to spend his free time into a regular information base. And the library will become the intellectual, cultural and spiritual center of the school.