The document discusses the library as both a content provider and content creator. As a content provider, the library handles acquisition, organization, distribution and access to physical and digital content for users. As a content creator, the library is involved in the full lifecycle of content production from acquisition of information to its organization and distribution.

1. The System Redressed
Containers :: Content
John Blyberg
Darien Library
Computers in Libraries 2008
4/8/2008

2. “The overall name of these interrelated
structures is system. The motorcycle is a
system. A real system ...There's so much talk
about the system. And so little understanding.
That's all a motorcycle is, a system of concepts
worked out in steel ... the motorcycle is
primarily a mental phenomenon.”
- Robert Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance