Providing information with the aim of introducing national and international standards into the work of libraries in Ukraine

The article discusses the experience of informing about current standards in librarianship in Ukraine. This work is carried out by Ivan Fedorov Book Chamber of Ukraine, The State Scientific and Technical Library of Ukraine, Yaroslav Mudryi National Library of Ukraine, VI Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, the Maksymovych Scientific Library of the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, which regularly prepare lists of existing standards in librarianship, information and archival affairs, publishing. The analysis showed that each of these lists has its own peculiarities, all of them differ in their content, the method of grouping standards, the completeness of providing information about documents, and design. In 2019, these materials were supplemented by the annotated bibliographic index «Standards for Librarianship and Related Sectors», compiled as part of scientific work by the V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine Institute of Library Science. An annotated bibliographic index was prepared for methodological assistance in working with normative documents and can be useful to a scientist and a professional in library, archival, and publishing. The publication contains a description of state and interstate standards in force in Ukraine as of November 1, 2019. The preparation of the index was carried out in order to inform librarians about current standards, as well as provide information on the availability of these publications in the VNLU funds for their effective use in practice and study. The index consists of 4 sections. The index includes more than 30 new national standards, which were prepared on the basis of the International Organization for Standardization international standards and began to operate in Ukraine from the beginning of 2019.