Specificity of Electronic Documents in the System of Library Funds

The purpose of the article is to reveal the specifics of electronic documents in the system of modern library funds. The methodology of the research is based on general scientific methods of knowledge, including a systematic approach that helped to analyze the electronic document as an integral part of the library business, funds and electronic document space as general systems; theoretical-empirical, abstraction, analogy, analysis, deduction, induction, reduction and synthesis methods have been used. Scientific novelty. The specificity of electronic funds in the context of domestic and world tendencies in the development of library activity is investigated; various aspects of the formation of funds of electronic documents and electronic libraries as an integral part of the library fund of the 20th century have been analyzed; The concept of «electronic document», «electronic fund», as well as differences of electronic library fund from electronic library is specified. Conclusions. The specifics of electronic documents as forms, which appeared as a result of the synthesis of documentary diversity and computer technologies, were determined, and possessed the properties of a document, combined with a class of technetronic documents, with specific general characteristics, and at the same time personal characteristics. It is revealed that replenishment of the electronic library of the library at the present stage is one of the priority directions of domestic libraries activity, both at the local and national level, taking place within the framework of creation of a single information space and provision of information in national and international information systems, according to the state target national-cultural program for the creation of a unified information library system «Library XXІ».