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t. e. A school library (or a school library media center) is a library within a school where students, staff, and often, parents of a public or private school have access to a variety of resources. The goal of the school library media center is to ensure that all members of the school community have equitable access "to books and reading, to ...
Collections management, which consists primarily of the administrative responsibilities associated with collection development, is closely related to collections care, which is the physical preservation of cultural heritage. The professionals most influenced by collections management include collection managers, registrars, and archivists .
The Association for Library Collections and Technical Services ( ALCTS) was a division of the American Library Association (ALA) dedicated to the areas of technical services (acquisitions, cataloging and classification, and continuing resources), collection management and development, and preservation and reformatting.
Collections Management Systems (CMSs) allow individuals or collecting institutions to organize, control, and manage their collections' objects by “tracking all information related to and about” those objects. [1] In larger institutions, the CMS may be used by collections staff such as registrars, collections managers, and curators to record ...
The Biodiversity Heritage Library website, an example of a digital library. A digital library (also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, a library without walls, or a digital collection) is an online database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital documents, or other digital media formats or a library accessible through the ...
The development and implementation of a collection development policy is a best practices for libraries and archives, and addresses issues such as: material selection and acquisition. replacement of worn or lost materials. removal ( weeding) of materials no longer needed in the collection. planning for new collections or collection areas.
Sharable Content Object Reference Model ( SCORM) is a collection of standards and specifications for web-based electronic educational technology (also called e-learning). It defines communications between client side content and a host system (called "the run-time environment"), which is commonly supported by a learning management system.
Electronic resource management. Electronic resource management ( ERM) is the practices and techniques used by librarians and library staff to track the selection, acquisition, licensing, access, maintenance, usage, evaluation, retention, and de-selection of a library's electronic information resources. These resources include, but are not ...