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Library management is an institutional management subdiscipline that focuses on specific issues faced by libraries and library management professionals. Library management encompasses normal management tasks, as well as intellectual freedom and fundraising responsibilities. Problems encountered in library management often overlap with those faced in managing non-profit organizations.
The basic functions of library administration include, but are not limited to: planning and negotiating materials procurement, Interlibrary Loan (ILL) applications, battery maintenance, fee collection monitoring, event planning, fundraising and human resources.
Most libraries that store physical media such as books, periodicals, movies, and other objects adhere to some derivative of the Dewey Decimal System as their method for labeling, storing, and retrieving materials based on unique identifiers. The use of these systems has led librarians to develop and take advantage of common constructs that act as tools for both library professionals and library users. These constructs include master catalogs, domain catalogs, indexes, unique identifiers, unique identifiers, and artifacts.
A master catalog acts as a catalog of all catalogs of domain or specific topic and often directs the user to a more specific area of a library where the user can find a more specific domain catalog. For example, when entering a very large library, you can find a master catalog that will direct a patron to a specific wing of the library that focuses on a specific topic, such as law, history, fiction, etc.
In contrast, domain catalogs are generally composed of a very large library system, where a master catalog can not contain all system information. As a result, the master catalog takes the user to domain catalogs that contain homogeneous references to specific artifacts belonging to the category or domain assigned to that catalog. For example, a very large library can have many catalogs of domains-one for law, one for history, one for fiction, and so on. In the case of smaller libraries where the use of domain catalogs is unnecessary, the master catalog may contain all information.
The indices represent a grouping of artifacts by some relevant grouping constraint. The most common index groups are "by title", "by subject" and "by author".
Often referred to more simply as identifiers, unique identifiers represent a means of assigning and labeling an artifact to a readable string of characters that is unique to that single artifact. Such identifiers usually include the address or location of the artifact within the library, and a unique character set that helps distinguish artifacts that have common features as common titles. Such unique identifiers are also divided into tabs and are usually placed somewhere on the surface of the stored artifact, such as in book binding, to facilitate easy locating of that item.
Unique identification strings are divided into predefined and fixed position segments or sub-strings. Each segment is called a token and represents an assignment to something meaningful, hence the name unique identifier tokens. For example, a token may lead a user to a specific wing of a library, another could lead the user to a specific aisle within that wing, another to a specific shelf within that aisle, etc., everything that ultimately leads to the artifact itself. These tokens are often separated by a character that is often referred to as a tokenizer (for example "." Or ":").
Artifacts represent those original things or authorized copies of things that are being categorized, stored inside and retrieved from libraries. Examples of artifacts include books, periodicals, research papers, films, and computer discs.
The basic functions of library administration include, but are not limited to: planning and negotiating materials procurement, Interlibrary Loan (ILL) applications, battery maintenance, fee collection monitoring, event planning, fundraising and human resources.
Most libraries that store physical media such as books, periodicals, movies, and other objects adhere to some derivative of the Dewey Decimal System as their method for labeling, storing, and retrieving materials based on unique identifiers. The use of these systems has led librarians to develop and take advantage of common constructs that act as tools for both library professionals and library users. These constructs include master catalogs, domain catalogs, indexes, unique identifiers, unique identifiers, and artifacts.
A master catalog acts as a catalog of all catalogs of domain or specific topic and often directs the user to a more specific area of a library where the user can find a more specific domain catalog. For example, when entering a very large library, you can find a master catalog that will direct a patron to a specific wing of the library that focuses on a specific topic, such as law, history, fiction, etc.
In contrast, domain catalogs are generally composed of a very large library system, where a master catalog can not contain all system information. As a result, the master catalog takes the user to domain catalogs that contain homogeneous references to specific artifacts belonging to the category or domain assigned to that catalog. For example, a very large library can have many catalogs of domains-one for law, one for history, one for fiction, and so on. In the case of smaller libraries where the use of domain catalogs is unnecessary, the master catalog may contain all information.
The indices represent a grouping of artifacts by some relevant grouping constraint. The most common index groups are "by title", "by subject" and "by author".
Often referred to more simply as identifiers, unique identifiers represent a means of assigning and labeling an artifact to a readable string of characters that is unique to that single artifact. Such identifiers usually include the address or location of the artifact within the library, and a unique character set that helps distinguish artifacts that have common features as common titles. Such unique identifiers are also divided into tabs and are usually placed somewhere on the surface of the stored artifact, such as in book binding, to facilitate easy locating of that item.
Unique identification strings are divided into predefined and fixed position segments or sub-strings. Each segment is called a token and represents an assignment to something meaningful, hence the name unique identifier tokens. For example, a token may lead a user to a specific wing of a library, another could lead the user to a specific aisle within that wing, another to a specific shelf within that aisle, etc., everything that ultimately leads to the artifact itself. These tokens are often separated by a character that is often referred to as a tokenizer (for example "." Or ":").
Artifacts represent those original things or authorized copies of things that are being categorized, stored inside and retrieved from libraries. Examples of artifacts include books, periodicals, research papers, films, and computer discs.