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A project is a collaborative workspace where you can share elements with others by uploading and downloading the elements. Projects are typically temporary—they are used over short periods of time and deleted when the work is complete.
What you can do with projects depends on the user rights you are granted, but a common scenario is for anyone to be able to create and delete projects, organize the elements within a project, and upload and download elements in projects.
A library is a storage place for elements that you may want to reuse in a future publication. Libraries are typically more permanent than projects—they usually contain many elements and exist over long periods of time so that elements can be reused again and again.
As with projects, what you can do with libraries depends on your user rights. A typical scenario is for the administrator in an organization to act as the librarian—that is, only the librarian may be granted the user rights to create and delete libraries and to add, remove, and organize elements in a library, while anyone can download an element for reuse.
Consider the following situation in which you might use projects and libraries. You are working on a new publication, so you create a new project. Another user uploads several images to the project and you download the images that you decide to use. Once the publication is complete, you discard any images contained in the project that you know you won’t use again. However, you keep several elements that you think you might use again in another publication and ask your administrator to copy the elements to a library for storage. Once the administrator has copied the remaining elements, you delete the project.
When you are ready to start work on the next publication, you retrieve the elements that you want to reuse by downloading them from the library to your desktop, and then modify and place them into the new publication as desired. The original copies of the elements remain in the library, unchanged.
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