Do you have any good opinions and suggestions on the management of information resources in our library?

Library is the product of the development of human social life to a certain stage. The first is the generation of words. Before that, people could only express and transmit information through oral words and body movements. The appearance of characters enables people to record knowledge and information on a certain material carrier, which is the original literature. It is precisely because of the invention of writing and its application in document records that human society has transitioned into a civilized era. With the development of human society, this kind of literature which records human experience, knowledge and information has reached a huge amount, and its content has become more and more complex, which has brought difficulties to people's use and search, and libraries have emerged. Collecting and sorting out literature records became the existing way and activity content of early libraries.

The contents of early literature collection are basically all kinds of written records in social life, such as religious ceremony records, emperor's decrees and decrees, all kinds of tax collection and tribute records, and most of them are all kinds of documents and files. Therefore, the social institutions that managed books and archives in the early days were homologous. With the development of social economy, science and technology and culture, the types of document records have greatly increased. As the original document collection and management organization, the library gradually separated from the archives management organization, and became the center for the collection, arrangement, provision and utilization of knowledge and documents, forming an independent library.

The ultimate purpose of library collection of documents is to make use of them. Since its birth, the library has attached great importance to the unity of "hiding" and "using" and kept it for use. However, it is quite difficult to effectively solve the contradiction between Tibet and use. In its long development process, the library has been committed to coordinating these contradictions and striving to make them harmonious and unified. Therefore, the library has not only created many effective technical methods of document arrangement, but also introduced the concept of management to comprehensively manage the organization, people, document arrangement and provision process, which has the bud of modern information resource management. The name of early "library science" was "library economy", and the name of the first library college founded by Dewey in 1887 was also "Columbia University Library Economics College".

Although the concept and method of management are introduced, the library is not very successful in solving the contradiction between document collection and utilization, mainly because the distribution of document information utilization in time and space is very complicated. In space, even in a small area, the library is faced with endless and ever-changing demands, while in time, it is a long distribution, and the literature information sources in the library may not be read until the distant future. I don't know when and where to "hide" here and now. This makes the library have to collect all the literature information sources in order to prepare for unpredictable "use" in the future, because collection is easier to grasp and the goal is clearer than use. Moreover, the library itself has the function of preserving cultural heritage, which is why the library attaches importance to the "source" management.

The management mode of traditional library, which emphasizes the collection but ignores the use, emphasizes the source and ignores the flow, has aroused people's criticism, and people doubt the efficiency of library in providing document information services. In the 1940s, there was an "information crisis" in the era of great science, and knowledge and information increased exponentially, threatening human re-creation activities, and a new type of full-time information service organization appeared in the field of science and technology. The task of these institutions is to collect, process, store, retrieve and provide scientific and technological information. Because scientific and technological information is mainly based on literature, this kind of

In essence, information institutions are still engaged in document management, focusing on documents other than books, such as periodicals, patents, conference documents and so on. In the mid-1950s, this kind of full-time information service institution was established in China, which was called the Institute of Science and Technology Information. Its main task is to provide information services for scientific research, production and decision making. Japan is collectively referred to as "intelligence management", which essentially includes the whole process of intelligence work. Intelligence agencies are mainly engaged in secondary document processing, aiming at overcoming the lag phenomenon of traditional libraries in providing document information and the shortcomings of over-emphasis on "hiding". Document processing pays attention to both external characteristics and content characteristics, and the main way to provide services is to actively transmit document information in multiple directions.

There is no substantial difference between scientific and technological information institutions and libraries. They are (or mainly) social public welfare institutions, funded by the state or supported by citizens' tax payment, engaged in information collection, processing, storage, retrieval and provision based on documents, and focused on the management of "document information sources". Especially in the context of the extensive use of information technology to make libraries enter the information world from the book world, books and information services tend to be more integrated. After 1960s, both of them paid more attention to management and made a transition to "information management", which can be reflected from the related name changes. For example, the internationally renowned Aslib was renamed Information Management Association in 1983. Many professional journals have also changed their names or added the word "management". For example, the information storage and retrieval founded in 1963 was renamed as information processing and management from 1975 to 1 1; Library of serial publications, founded in 1976, subtitled "Quarterly Journal of Serial Publications Management". 1986 social science information research was renamed as international journal of information management, 1977 library collection was renamed as collection management.

The renaming of the above-mentioned periodicals and associations not only covers a wider area, but also reflects the connotation and development trend of "management" of contemporary library and information work, that is, the traditional management stage with "information source" as the core, literature as the main carrier and public service as the main goal is developing to the information management stage, from focusing on the collection and collation of "sources" to focusing on the control and management of "streams".

In addition to the management of books and documents in various professional fields by libraries and intelligence agencies, various administrative documents of government departments and other institutions are also important management objects.