The Role of the National Library in Ensuring the Right to Information in Ukraine

The article considers the role of libraries in ensuring the human right to information in Ukraine. It is noted that in the context of the rapid spread of information and communication technologies in all fields of social life, the intensification of information processes and the increasing importance of information in human life, the role of Ukraine’s libraries, primarily national ones, as subjects of the formation of information relations, is significantly enhanced. Attention is paid to the new possibilities of library institutions in the information society, to the advantages of libraries in competing with similar structures. A leading role of national libraries and information and analytical structures of library institutions in the process of meeting information, research, educational, cultural and other needs of users is shown by the example of V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine.