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  2. Inventory (library and archive) - Wikipedia

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    The library needs an increase in budget to care for aging collections, or the library needs an increase in funding to add new materials for our students to meet deficiencies and weaknesses. This strategy was employed by the Joyner Library at East Carolina University after an inventory and shelf-analysis project in 2005. [20]

  3. Library catalog - Wikipedia

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    A more recent attempt to describe a library catalog's functions was made in 1998 with Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), which defines four user tasks: find, identify, select, and obtain. [10] A catalog helps to serve as an inventory or bookkeeping of the library's contents. If an item is not found in the catalog, the ...

  4. List of returned long-overdue library books - Wikipedia

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    Washington borrwed the book when the library was sharing a building federal government. Staff discovered the book was missing in 2010 after conducting an inventory of books in the library's 1789-1792 ledger, [43] which had itself been missing until 1934. [44] Overdue fines woud theoretically amount to $300,000.

  5. Finding aid - Wikipedia

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    Finding aids often consist of a documentary inventory and description of the materials, their source, and their structure. [1] The finding aid for a fonds is usually compiled by the collection's entity of origin, provenance , or by an archivist during archival processing , and may be considered the archival science equivalent of a library ...

  6. Online public access catalog - Wikipedia

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    Prior to the widespread use of the Internet, the online catalog was often the first information retrieval system library users ever encountered. Now accustomed to web search engines, newer generations of library users have grown increasingly dissatisfied with the complex (and often arcane) search mechanisms of older online catalog systems.

  7. Integrated library system - Wikipedia

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    Prior to computerization, library tasks were performed manually and independently from one another. Selectors ordered materials with ordering slips, cataloguers manually catalogued sources and indexed them with the card catalog system (in which all bibliographic data was kept on a single index card), fines were collected by local bailiffs, and users signed books out manually, indicating their ...

  8. Library classification - Wikipedia

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    Library classifications were preceded by classifications used by bibliographers such as Conrad Gessner. The earliest library classification schemes organized books in broad subject categories. The earliest known library classification scheme is the Pinakes by Callimachus, a scholar at the Library of Alexandria during the third century BC ...

  9. Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules - Wikipedia

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    Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR) were an international library cataloging standard.First published in 1967 and edited by C. Sumner Spalding, [1] a second edition (AACR2) edited by Michael Gorman and Paul W. Winkler was issued in 1978, with subsequent revisions (AACR2R) appearing in 1988 and 1998; all updates ceased in 2005.