Meanings
plural microlibraries
- 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.
2011, Charles Wankel, Educating Educators with Social Media, page 291 - computingA compact, minimalistic library (set of routines).
You should certainly explore the wealth of microlibraries available in the community and use the ones that solve your problems.
2014, Eric Elliott, Programming JavaScript Applications1 more example
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.
2012, Tim Wright, Learning JavaScript
Origin
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