Modern tendencies of higher education functioning in the field of social communication have been researched, the particular attention is paid to issues of professional training humanization and humanitarianization at the time of the pandemic crisis conditions. It is defined, that due to the major tendencies in the modern educational sphere, the system of professional training of specialists of informational, librarian and archival activity requires a significant optimization, change of pedagogical paradigm, implementation of effective teaching and educational process of highly qualified specialists training. The importance of humanization and humanitarianization of the future specialist training of informational, librarian and archival activity are scientifically valued. Particular attention is paid to formal and non-formal online education ensuring, which shall meet the following challenges of the new millennium: antropooriented, which based on realizing of the internal needs as well as the objective necessity of the mobile self-development, the ability to stay on adequate and dynamic contact with others and one-on-one. Humanization online education ensures that non-cognitive education components are researched within the relationship between the teacher and student as well as the social relationship, that contributes to communication and empathy, which has been encouraging the interest of self-developing. It has been established that humanization supplies the strict, practical education strategy for online education, which creates an inclusive online course environment, which is able to support the cognitive and affective differences, coexisted within the courses of the high education institutions. It is defined that the education humanization actualizes the issue of the improvement of the organizational and management of the future specialist culture on the basis of self-oriented technologies development, ensures self-developing conditions for the student, for his self-realization in professional activity, contributes to the growth of the mental potential, philosophy formation, moral behavior pattern

professional training, humanization, humanitarianization, online courses, culturally responsible education, specialists in informational, librarian and archival activities