Title: Conceptualising the Library Collection for the Digital World
Abstract: ‘Collection’ has traditionally been seen as a core function of a library. However, the transformational rise of digital technology presents a range of challenges to established collection development and management practices. A literature review describes some of these challenges and explores alternative terms such as knowledge management, content management or information resource management. Examples of how the term ‘collection’ is used in a range of new media applications are also considered, suggesting that ‘collection’ – speaking as it does to a fundamental human activity of bringing things together, organising them and imbuing them with a collective value distinct from that attributed to each individual item – may have the same broad applicability in the digital world as other terms such as ‘searching’ or ‘sharing’. In particular, adopting a more dynamic interpretation of ‘collection’ – defining it in terms of access and as a process of gathering items or content together, as well as being, in some cases, a self-contained entity – may help library and information services to emphasise the value they add to resources.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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