Mostly Used Abbreviations in Library and Information Science

Mostly Used Abbreviations in Library and Information Science

A

AACR : Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules.

ALCTS : The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services

AJAX : Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

ANSI : American National Standards Institute

API : Application Programming Interface.

ARL : Association of Research Libraries.

ARPANET : Advanced Research Projects Agency Network.

ASIS : American Society for Information Science. 

ASLIB: Association for Information Management, previously, 

the Association of Special  Libraries and Information Bureau.

ASTINFO : Regional Network for the exchange of information and experience in  science and technology in Asia and the Pacific

 

B

BLAISE : British Library’s Automated Information Service

BIS : Bureau of Indian Standards

 

C

CALIBER : Convention on Automation of Libraries in Education and Research Institutions. 

CAS : Current Awareness Service

CCF : Common Communication Format

CILIP : Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.

CMS : Content Management System.

COPSAT :  Current Online Patent in Science and Technology

COUNTER : Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources

CPM : Critical Path Method

 

D

DCMI : Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.

DDS : Document Delivery Service

DELNET: Developing Library NETwork.

DLF: Digital Library Federation.

DMAIC: Define, Measure, Access, Improve and Control

DNS: Domain Naming System.

DRTC: Documentation Research and Training Centre.

E

ENIAC : Electronic Numerical Integrator and  Calculator

ESS : Electronic Spread Sheet

EUAL  :   End User License Agreement

 

F

FAIFE : Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression

FRAD: Functional Requirements for Authority Data.

FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records.

FSF: Free Software Foundation.

FTE : Full-Time equivalent

FTP: File Transfer Protocol.

 

G

GPRS: General Packet Radio Service.

GSDL: Green Stone Digital Library Software.

GUI : Graphic User Interface

 

H

HTML: Hyper Text Mark Up Language.

HTTP: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.

 

I

IASLIC: Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centers.

IATLIS: Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science.

ICOLC : International Coalition of Library Consortia

IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.

ILL: Inter Library Loan

INDEST: Indian National Digital library in Engineering Sciences and Technology

INFLIBNET :  INFormation and LIBrary NETwork

IP: Internet Protocol.

ISBD: International Standard Bibliographic Description.

ISO: International Organization for Standardization.

ISP: Internet Service Provider.

ISSN : International Standard Serial Number.

 

J

JANET: Joint Academic NETwork.

JOCLAI : Joint Council of Library Associations of India

 

L

LAN: Local Area Network.

LCSH : Library of Congress Subject Heading

LIPHIS : Linked Phrase Indexing System

LOCKSS : Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe

 

M

MALI: Medical Library Association of India.

MAN: Metropolitan Area Network.

MARC : MAchine Readable Catalogue.

MEDLARS : Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System

METS :  Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard

MIPS : Million Instructions Per Second

 

N

NCP: Network Control Protocol.

NISCAIR: National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources.

NSF: National Science Foundation.

 

O

OAI-PMH: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.

OCLC: Online Computer Library Centre.

OPAC: Online Public Access Catalogue

OWL : Web Ontology Language

 

P

PCM : Pulse Code Modulation

PERT : Program Evaluation and Review Techniqu

PLANNER: Promotion of Library Automation and Networking 

in North Eastern Region.

 

R

RDA: Resource Description and Access.

RFID : Radio Frequency IDentification

RRRLF: Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation

 

S

SCONUL : The Standing Conference on National and University Libraries

SDI: Selective Dissemination of Information

SIS: Society for Information Science.

SOUL : Software for University Libraries

SRU : Search / Retrieval via URL

SYNTOL  : Syntagmatic Organisation Language

 

T

TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol.

 

U

UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

UNIMARC: Universal Machine Readable Catalogue

URL: Uniform Resource Locator.

UTF :  Unicode Transformation Format 

(16 bit Unicode to 7/8 bit character conversion)

 

V

VDU : Visual Display Unit

VGA : Video Graphic Adopter

VLSI : Very Large Sale Integration

 

W

WADEX : Word and Author Index

WAN: Wide Area Network.

WCDMA :  Wideband Code Division Multiple Access

WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization.

WORM : Write Once Read Many

WPI : World Patents Index

WWW: World Wide Web.

 

Y

YAHOO : Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle

 

Z

ZBB : Zero Base Budgeting