microlibrary

microlibrary

English

Etymology

micro- +‎ library

Noun

microlibrary (plural microlibraries)

1. A very small library (collection of books or similar resources).
   • 2011, Charles Wankel, Educating Educators with Social Media (page 291)

     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. (computing) A compact, minimalistic library (set of routines).
   • 2012, Tim Wright, Learning JavaScript

     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.

   • 2014, Eric Elliott, Programming JavaScript Applications

     You should certainly explore the wealth of microlibraries available in the community and use the ones that solve your problems.