Immersive products of documented historical and cultural heritage: new prospects of library practice

The purpose of the work is to identify, highlight and generalize the innovative practice of preserving the documented historical and cultural heritage, providing access to it, studying it and promoting it through the use of immersive technologies. The methodology includes the use of a complex of scientific methods - heuristic, included observation, descriptive, analysis, generalization - the combination of which made it possible to identify, understand, summarize and reveal the experience of creating immersive products of documented historical and cultural heritage and their advantages for library practice. The scientific novelty consists in revealing the information and communication potential of immersive technologies to ensure wide access to documented historical and cultural heritage, its preservation, study and promotion, substantiation of immersive products of documented historical and cultural heritage as syncretic cultural monuments, outlining the role of libraries in the creation of such products. Conclusions. Immersive products of documented historical and cultural heritage open up new prospects for user access to valuable monuments of library collections, familiarization with them and their research. The integration of distributed various formats information with the help of immersive library and information products, accompanying the digital copy of the object with expert comments, a multimedia series, the possibility of studying details due to tools for magnification and rotation, the reconstruction of the authentic environment around the object form the basis for a complex perception and understanding of information, maximum immersion in the research subject. Immersive library and information products of documented historical and cultural heritage are a promising tool for preserving the nation's spiritual treasures by creating high -quality digital copies of documents, familiarizing a wide audience with the nation's documented spiritual heritage and popularizing the most valuable objects of library fonds as places of memory, expanding the source base historical and cultural research and training of relevant specialists, strengthening the positive image of libraries as institutions of memory, integrated into the processes of today, strengthening the international prestige of the state.