SUMMARY
In the formation of information competence, the primary role is played by a «specially designed educational environment based on the interaction of the library and the educational institution». Therefore, each library has the opportunity to prepare an information-competent personality, even without resorting to the development of all sorts of new teaching methods for the formation information competence, but improving its educational environment, taking into account the need to raise this level. And, despite the fact that the process of creating an environment that will nourish information competence longer than the development of a new teaching methodology, the results will be more ambitious, since the environmental methodology is synergistic.