Participation of the Central Regional Scientific Library in the Educational Process of Universities

The emergence of new information channels and methods of distributing scientific publications, active development of digital technologies are changing the tasks and forms of work of scientific libraries, which form documentary and information resources and have extensive experience in meeting the information needs of representatives of the scientific and educational complex. The directions of scientific libraries’ activities are complemented by purposeful training of users in the basics of information culture. In scientific libraries – libraries of universities and central scientific libraries of the subjects of the Russian Federation – much attention is paid to servicing students. The change in the educational model, strengthening of the self-educational component in the educational process of the university, the increasing importance of the information culture of the individual change the status of scientific libraries: from an element of the information infrastructure, the library turns into a subject of educational activity, interacting with faculties and departments on the principles of partnership. The purpose of this article is to present the results of the survey of the information behavior of students in Chelyabinsk, who use in their work, along with information resources of university libraries, document and information resources of the Chelyabinsk State Universal Scientific Library and to determine areas of cooperation between the Central Regional Scientific Library and higher educational institutions.