Key Concepts according to Glushko

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  • Key Concepts of Libraries according to Glushko Chapter 2
    • Selection
      • "Libraries typically select resources on the basis of their utility and relevance to their user populations, and try to choose resources that add the most value to their existing collections ... libraries ... typically formalize their selection principles in collection development policies that establish priorities for acquiring resources that reflect the people they serve and the services they provide to them. Precise and formal selection principles enable users of a collection to be confident that it contains the most important and useful resources." (Glushko, 2013:52)
    • Organising
      • Organizing systems arrange their resources according to many different principles. In libraries ... organizing principles are typically documented as cataloging rules, information management policies, or other explicit and systematic procedures so that different people can apply them consistently over time" (Glushko, 2013:54)
      • "To overcome the inherent constraints with organizing physical resources [they can only be in one place at any one time], organizing systems often use additional physical resources that describe the primary physical ones, with the library card catalog being the classic example. A specific physical resource might be in a particular place, but multiple description resources for it can be in many different places at the same time. When the description resources are themselves digital, as when the printed library card catalog is put online, the additional layer of abstraction created enables additional organizing possibilities that can ignore physical properties of resources and many of the details about how they are stored. In organizing systems that use additional resources to identify or describe primary ones 'adding to a collection' is a logical act that need not require any actual movement, copying, or reorganization of the primary resources. This virtual addition allows the same resources to be part of many collections at the same time; the same book can be listed in many bibliographies, the same web page can be in many lists of web bookmarks and have incoming links from many different pages, and a publisher’s digital article repository can be licensed to any number of libraries." (Glushko, 2013:56)
    • Designing resources-based interactions
      • "When organizing resources involves arranging physical resources using boxes, bins, cabinets, or shelves, the affordances and the implications for access and use can be easily perceived. Resources of a certain size and weight can be picked up and carried away. Books on the lower shelves of bookcases are easy to reach, but those stored ten feet from the ground cannot be easily accessed. Overhead and end-of-aisle signs support navigation and orientation in libraries and stores, and the information on book spines or product packages help us select a specific resource" (Glushko, 2013:61)
    • Maintaining
      • At the most basic level, preservation of resources means maintaining them in conditions that protect them from physical damage or deterioration. Libraries ... aim for stable temperatures and low humidity" (Glushko, 2013:69)
      • "It is easy to say that the solutions to the problems of digital preservation are regular recopying of the digital resources onto new storage media and then migrating them to new formats when significantly better ones come along. In practice, however, how libraries ... deal with these problems depends on their budgets and on their technical sophistication. In addition, not every resource should or can always be migrated, and the co-existence of multiple storage technologies makes an organizing system more complex because different storage formats and devices can be collectively incompatible" (Glushko, 2013: 71)

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