Bondarenko V. The distant Internet service of modern library's users (late XXth - early XXI century.)

The dissertation contains fully studied and generalized experience of using the library distant Internet service, its role in improving the information provision for users in the context of communication theory and library operation as an universal information and communication system. It is discovered the essence and specificity of the distant Internet service in the library public service and a definition of the distant service is proposed. The experience of using the distant Internet service for users in the leading libraries of the world and Ukraine is summarized and analyzed. The influence of using innovative technologies for the development and improvement of distant users servicing is proved. The basic trends and prospects of the development of distant forms in library servicing in terms of attraction and using intelligent user capacity and the introduction of interactive services are delineated.