The special competencies of a teacher at a higher library school are dif- ferentiated into actual pedagogical (methodological) and knowledge of library technology. In recent decades, the technology of working with documents and readers has been reduced in favor of activities such as marketing and manage- ment. In recent years, theorists and practitioners of librarianship have been unanimous in the opinion that the lack of such qualifications in the nomencla- ture of library positions has a negative impact on the status of young specialists and their retention in the library. The purpose of the article is to theoretically substantiate the elements of the competency model of a teacher of a higher library school under informatization. The authors propose a model of teacher professional competence, which is a set of professionally significant competen- cies developed taking into account the integration processes of education and ensuring not only professional, but also personal growth of the teacher