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BOOK OF THE FUTURE - visualizes the book/print reading mode conveyed by other, composite reading modes and different hand held reading devices.

BOOK, FUTURE OF THE - visualizes scenarios of persistence of the traditional paper book in a print reading mode.

BORN AGAIN DIGITAL - "born digital" refers to digitally encoded works that are created and stored without any output to paper. "born again digital" refers to retrospective conversion of printed works that are first widely distributed and read as a result of digital delivery.

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CLOUD PRESERVATION - digital preservation dependant on distribution of resources out onto a network where they can be actively distributed, down loaded and consensus authenticated.

CONTINUING ROLE OF THE SOURCE ORIGINAL - premise of preservation that establishes status of initial holdings in relation to surrogate delivery.

COPY - a simulation of an original ("information is anything that can be copied"; Kelly)

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DELIVERY SYSTEM - a combination of application, operating system, reading hardware and network infrastructure that enables surrogate delivery from source originals.

DIGITAL CONSERVATION - "virtual" restoration of a digital copy of an original using image editing software.

DIGITAL PRESERVATION - (1) assuring long term storage and retrievability of electronic resourses and archives. (2) analog to digital reformatting for long term storage and retrievability.

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EMU - excerpt mediated use; on-line finding/browsing aid to stored collections based on imaging of title page and table of contents attached to catalog record. in circulating collections EMU can be done by increment with use driven selection or it can be systematically generated as a processing routine for items going to storage and to shelving by size. publishers and copy right holders generally approve of EMU.

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FOLD BIND - a type of adhesive binding which bonds single folios of four pages each. of relevance to 4-up POD impositions.

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INVISIBLE INFRASTRUCTURE - disregarded preconditions of enveloping cultural, economic, biological, technical contexts in causal explanation. Examples of invisible infrastructure include machines that make machines, routings for transportaton arteries or conventions of methodology of crafts and trades.

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LEAF MASTER - a paper book or document retained primarily for production of copies.

LIBRARY PRESERVATION = PRESERVATION OF LIBRARIES - premise that transitions in library infrastructure and services influence persistence of holdings and that preservation functionality must extend to and connect with infrastructure and services maintenance.

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MEDIUM NEUTRALITY - provide and allocate assessment, vender forwarding, in-house processing and treatment, proportionally and equitably, to every medium in the library collections

METAMATTER - the latent state of an untransmitted book. (see also LEAF MASTER)

MINING REFERERS - exploiting the searches of others on exactly the keywords of interest.

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PARENT READING MODES - verbal/visual, written, print modes

PRESERVATION OF ACCESS - the preservation department serves library users by maintaining a state of accessibility to all library holdings.

1. assurance of medium neutrality to provide and allocate assessment, vender forwarding, in-house processing and treatment, proportionally, to every medium in the library collections 2. provision of proactive management: evaluate and diagnose risk of inaccessibility to prevent loss of information and advise collection managers 3. provoke definition of preservation components of access projects

PRESERVATION of ASSETS of COLLECTIONS - the preservation department services provide care of collections and protect university investment in library collections.

1. establish premise of preservation of source originals in the context of digital delivery 2. provide physical treatment and reformatting of damaged materials 3. monitor and improve storage conditions 4. advise exhibition and loan arrangements

PRESERVATION OF MEANING - integration of the preservation of artifact, content and consequence of a conceptual work

PRESERVING PRESERVATION - premise that achieving university mission depends on reliably stored and conveyed information and knowledge.

1. definion of the contribution of preservation to strategic plans and administrative priorities 2. extension of preservation methods, responses and services across the whole range of needs 3. application of long term perspective in costing preservation services

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READING - assimilation of presented communication.

READING BEHAVIOR - the apparent activities of a reader

READING MODE - (1) a mind-set, method, and technology of message reception. (2)a retrieval and access behavior between human readers and stored information. four modes are suggested; (1) verbal/visual mode - the mode of conversation or listening, (2) reading mode of writing - exchange between individual writers, mode of composition for delivery via other modes (3) reading mode of print - use of a text within systematic collections of other texts and within communities of other readers and (4) a technology assisted composite mode of all the others delivered within a single, multi-media interface. (see diagram)

READING HABITAT - a study environment that compiles or mixes reading modes.

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SOURCE ORIGINAL - a physical item of any information storage medium that first conveyed a given content or conceptual work. only a single attibute cannot be copied; the association of the source original with the period and circumstance of its production.

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THRESHOLD - boundaries and obstacles of reading mode change, i.e. from oral to transcibed to print presentation.

THRESHOLDING - 1. delivering content from one mode to any other mode 2. change of meaning as a result of change of reading mode

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