Abstract
The article summarizes practical experience of providing information and educational needs of foreign students in the Scientific and Technical Library of the National Aviation University. The analysis of theoretical principles and state-of-the-art practical experience of organizing work with foreign students in higher educational establishments of Ukraine has been carried out, the peculiarities of this category of students have been revealed in relation to providing information needs in the learning process, simplifying their adaptation to the educational, informational and everyday environment of the host country. The article states that the National Aviation University is one of the leading educational institutions providing training for foreign students. It has been found that the Scientific and Technical Library of the National Aviation University provides information and services to foreign students on a general basis and does not have a separate structural unit within it to work only with this group of students. Still, sufficient conditions for intellectual and physical access to information resources have been established for foreign students through the library website and in its computer classrooms. The article also presents the issues related to the direct service of foreign students in library units and professional readiness of the library staff to communicate with specific nature. It has been found that the Scientific and Technical Library of the National Aviation University, over the decades of working with foreign students, has gained interesting and useful experience in organizing work with this category of readers and providing their information and educational needs. The necessity to generalize and share such experience, as well as to improve the provision of information needs of foreign students in the Scientific and Technical Library of the National Aviation University
Keywords
information; information services; information and educational needs; foreign students; library; Scientific and Technical Library of the National Aviation University
