Microlibrary
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A very small library (collection of books or similar resources).
"We imagined a microlibrary which would be a well organized digital collection of resources, focused specifically on our project, and employing both traditional library cataloging and organization, and the folksonomy made possible by user-generated tagging."
- 2 A compact, minimalistic library (set of routines).
"If you were to take a library like jQuery and pull it apart into all its different functions, it would form a bunch of microlibraries."
Example
More examples"We imagined a microlibrary which would be a well organized digital collection of resources, focused specifically on our project, and employing both traditional library cataloging and organization, and the folksonomy made possible by user-generated tagging."
Etymology
From micro- + library.
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