Building the model of academic library an digital competences

Librarian competences in the era of digital communication era are determined by the environment and the problems that the librarians have to solve in the nearest future. The librarians have to identify their rote and to learn new competences for the digital. society based upon digital. information when traditional library competences have faded. The author examines various approaches to the concepts of competence, competency and competence approach. The author reviews various ideas of nature, structure and ways of librarian digital competence development; specifies the concept digital competence development and emphasizes its impact on academic libraries.The nature of librarian digital competence implies professionally relevel personal quality manifesting itself in the ability of solving social and professional problems with information and communication technologies, upgrade your skills in digital technologies, and adapting professional knowledge to changing digital society. The model of librarian competences for digital environment was developed by Siberian Federal University Scientific Library; the model is discussed. It comprises soft and flexible skills. The model would enable to solve various problems in staff management, to move the library forward toward strategic goats and to meet user needs and demands.