INFORMATION-LIBRARIAN RESOURCES IN THE HOTEL AND RESTAURANT BUSINESS: STRUCTURAL-FUNCTIONAL APPROACH

The author explores the structure in the hotel and restaurant business of information-librarian re- sources. Its basic elements were defined: normative-legal, scientific-educational, industrial-practical, reference- bibliographic components used in traditional (printed) and electronic forms. It was show that they had all the characteristic features of information-librarian resources and differed only in the content and specific features of the field. They are national and international resources with their various forms: electronic journal, books, data- bases, portals. Information and library resources in the hotel-restaurant business are perform information, com- munication, social, cognitive, integrative functions