The article examines the issue of information security as a state of protection of the vital interests of a person, society and the state, in which damage should be prevented due to: incompleteness, untimeliness and implausibility of the information used.
The article is devoted to the topical issue of Ukrainian information security and protection of the national information space from negative propagandistic and manipulative information-psychological impacts. It is emphasized that the problem is actualized under conditions of the Ukraine-Russia conflict when ensuring information security turns into a factor of preserving national identity of Ukraine and its functioning as a sovereign independent state.
The article contains the description of modern library activities, such as the information engineering, and describes the following ten characteristics: 1. the information theory; 2. the classification of information; 3. the information environment and space; 4. the information modeling; 5. the information services; 6. the information market; 7. the information resources; 8. the information retrieval systems; 9. the information threats and wars; 10. the information security and protection.