profile - . A control file for a program, especially a text file automatically read from each user's home directory and intended to be easily modified by the user in order to customise the program's behaviour. Used to avoid hard-coded choices (see also dot file, rc file).
2. A report on the amounts of time spent in each routine of a program, used to find and tune away the hot spots in it. This sense is often verbed. Some profiling modes report units other than time (such as call counts) and/or report at granularities other than per-routine, but the idea is similar.
3. A demographic study of the community served by a library or library system, or of its registered users or user group, to measure economic, social, and educational variables pertinent to the development of collections, planning of services and acquisitions, and construction of facilities. Usually conducted with the aid of a survey instrument, but may also include data compiled from other sources.
Also refers to the list of needs established by a library with a publisher that supplies materials on approval or blanket order, which may include subject areas, levels of specialization and/or difficulty, series, formats, price ranges, languages, etc.
Also, the degree to which the activities of an individual, organization, or institution are known in its community. Libraries use publicity to break out of their typically low-profile role in society, for example, to convince their constituency to pass a library bond measure. Library policy can also become high-profile when a challenge sparks a conflict over censorship.
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