title: Functional Potential of the Activity of the NGO Ukrainian Library Association for the Development of Library Studies
abstract: The article is devoted to disclosing the functional potential of the Ukrainian Library Association (UBA) as an open professional organization that focuses its efforts on developing librarianship in Ukraine and strengthening the democratic foundations of social development in the country. The use of a set of research methods, the main of which were socio-communicative, systemic and functional methods, as well as empirical methods of inclusive and external observation, led to consideration of ULA 
journal: Ukrainian Journal on Library and Information Science