The methods for estimating the efficiency of information technologies (IT) are considered. The parameters, indicators and criteria allowing to analyze the effects of the use of IT in libraries are analyzed
The results of the competition of scientific and methodical projects that increase the work efficiency of scientific libraries developing their innovation activities, forming favorable public opinion about the innovative potential stimulating the activity of library are described.
The paper analyzes data on the flow of non-periodical publications entering the collections of the Centralized Library System headed by the Library for Natural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LNS RAS). The analysis is carried on for a five-year interval (2013-2017). It gives the general annual quantitative characteristics of domestic and foreign publications acquisition. The author shows a sharp drop in the number of incoming foreign, as well as translated publications, on natural sciences.
Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) is considered as a tool to ensure the usefulness and attractiveness of libraries for users. Modern approaches to make a search in OPAC effective and convenient, to satisfy the requirements and expectations of readers are characterized. The views of researchers and practitioners in this regard are compared.
The stages of information technologies (IT) implementation (the development of IT-strategy of library, a detailed IT-planning for objects, investigation of influenced object, IT choice taking into account the efficiency, staff training, implementation of IT, analysis of implementation results) are considered. A model of IT implementation with the account of their efficiency is proposed.