Abstract:

The modern information world is inevitably unified with proper management and the use of information becoming a necessity. We are witnessing a new type of mass culture, a new type of social organization and management through information and products. As part of these processes at a time when information is one of the most valuable resources, it is important to work increasingly towards the training of information professionals ready to meet the needs of today's society.

The role of information experts in these processes is related to skills for effective and productive operating with various information resources in the countless spheres of human activity. The creation of rightly structured knowledge spaces is a prerequisite for a productive information environment.

The new trends in the functions of the institutions of memory – libraries, archives and museums – are related to the forms and ways of storing, providing and disseminating information. They also require a new type of expert prepared to make the most of the new ICT capabilities. The increase in the document flow is another prerequisite for improving experts’ training. At the same time, it is of the utmost importance to create an educational environment in which the balance between innovation and tradition is sought. Work is needed to unify the standards for creating secondary documents that, with their reference function, extend the access to reliable information and shorten the path to discovering the source.

The current paper aims to analyze the need for bibliographic studies by future archivists to build a high bibliographic culture so much needed to work in a unified information environment. A review has been made of the BA curriculum in Archival and Documental Studies with the Library Management and Archival Studies Department of the Faculty of Library Studies and Cultural Heritage at the University of Library Studies and Information Technologies (ULSIT), Sofia, Bulgaria.

Acknowledgements:
The proposed paper is one of the outcomes of the scholarly project, titled “Information Portal for Archival-Documentary Heritage of the Bulgarian Revival” (Contract КП-06-Н 25/2,13.12.2018, NSF).

Keywords:

Bulgaria, University of Library Studies and Information Technologies, archival studies, documental studies, bibliographic culture.