Library is the external storage and selective transmission mechanism of social memory (usually expressed in written records). In other words, the library is the memory device and diffusion device of social knowledge, information and culture.
The development of library information resources;
The library has a large number of literature information resources. It is one of the important functions of the library to actively develop and widely use these literature resources, and it is also the basis for the library to undertake various functions.
Due to the large number and rapid growth of social literature; The types of social documents are complex and diverse; The timeliness of the document is strong; The speed of literary communication has accelerated; The content of the document is repeated; The language used in literature is expanding and the quality is declining, which makes people generally feel that it is not easy to use.
Through the processing, scientific analysis and comprehensive guidance of literature information resources, the library forms an orderly, regular and continuous information flow, carries out more extensive communication and transmission, and makes readers make better use of it. The development of library literature resources includes the following contents:
Firstly, the documents arriving in the library are inspected, registered, classified, catalogued and processed, and finally distributed to the lending room for scientific shelving and reasonable circulation.
Second, search and filter the literature information resources outside the library to make it a virtual collection and form a wider and faster information channel.
Thirdly, through the most modern means-computer network operation technology, the collection of documents will be digitized.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Library