LIBRARY SCIENCE ABBREVIATIONS MOST IMPORTANT
1. AACR: Anglo-American
Cataloguing Rules.
2. ALCTS : The Association for
Library Collections & Technical Services
3. AJAX : Asynchronous JavaScript
and XML
4. ANSI : American National
Standards Institute API : Application Programming Interface.
5. ARL : Association of Research
Libraries.
6. ARPANET: Advanced Research
Projects Agency Network.
7. ASIS: American Society for Information Science.
8. ASLIB: Association for Information Management, previously, the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureau.
9. ASTINFO : Regional Network for the exchange of information and experience in science and technology inAsia and the Pacific
10. BLAISE : British Library’s
Automated Information Service
11. BIS : Bureau of Indian
Standards
12. CALIBER: Convention on Automation of LIBraries in Education and Research Institutions.
13. CAS: Current Awareness Service
14. CCF: Common Communication Format
15. CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.
16. CMS: Content Management System.
17. COPSAT : Current Online Patent
in Science and Technology
18. COUNTER : Counting Online Usage
of Networked Electronic Resources
19. CPM : Critical Path Method
20. DCMI: Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative.
21. DDS: Document Delivery Service
DELNET: Developing Library NETwork.
22. DLF: Digital Library
Federation.
23. DMAIC: Define, Measure, Access,
Improve and Control
24. DNS: Domain Naming System.
DRTC: Documentation Research and Training Centre.
25. ENIAC : Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator
26. ESS : Electronic Spread Sheet
27. EUAL : End
User License Agreement
28. FAIFE : Freedom of Access to Information and Freedom of Expression
29. FRAD: Functional Requirements for Authority Data.
30. FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records.
31. FSF: Free Software Foundation.
32. FTE : Full-Time
equivalent
33. FTP: File
Transfer Protocol.
34. GPRS: General Packet Radio Service.
35. GSDL: Green Stone Digital Library Software.
36. GUI : Graphic User Interface
37. HTML: Hyper Text Mark Up Language.
38. HTTP: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.
39. IASLIC: Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centers.
40. IATLIS: Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science.
41. ICOLC : International Coalition of Library Consortia
42. IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
43. ILL: Inter Library Loan
44. INDEST: Indian National Digital library in Engineering Sciences and Technology
45. INFLIBNET : INFormation and LIBrary NETwork IP: Internet Protocol.
46. ISBD: International Standard Bibliographic Description.
47. ISO: International Organization for Standardization.
48. ISP: Internet Service Provider.
49. ISSN : International Standard Serial Number.
50. JANET: Joint Academic NETwork.
51. JOCLAI : Joint Council of Library Associations of India
52. LAN: Local Area
Network.
53. LCSH – Library
of Congress Subject Heading
54. LIPHIS -
Linked Phrase Indexing System) was developed by
55. LOCKSS : Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe
56. MALI: Medical Library Association of India.
57. MAN: Metropolitan Area Network.
58. MARC : MAchine Readable Catalogue.
59. MEDLARS : Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System
60. METS : Metadata Encoding and Transmission
Standard
61. MIPS : Million
Instructions Per Second
62. NCP: Network Control Protocol.
63. NISCAIR: National Institute of Science Communication and
Information Resources.
64. NSF: National Science Foundation.
65. OAI-PMH: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.
66. OCLC: Online Computer Library Centre.
67. OPAC: Online Public Access
Catalogue
68. OWL : Web
Ontology Language
69. PCM : Pulse
Code Modulation
70. PERT : Program Evaluation and Review Techniqu
71. PLANNER:
Promotion of Library Automation and Networking in North Eastern Region.
72. RDA: Resource
Description and Access.
73. RFID : Radio
Frequency IDentification
74. RRRLF: Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation
75. SCONUL : The
Standing Conference on National and University Libraries
76. SDI: Selective Dissemination of Information
77. SIS: Society for Information Science.
78. SOUL :
Software for University Libraries
79. SRU : Search /
Retrieval via URL
80. SYNTOL :
Syntagmatic Organisation Language
81. TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol.
82. UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
83. UNIMARC: Universal Machine Readable
Catalogue
84. URL: Uniform
Resource Locator.
85. UTF : Unicode Transformation Format (16 bit Unicode to 7/8 bit character conversion)
86. VDU : Visual Display Unit
87. VGA : Video
Graphic Adopter
88. VLSI : Very
Large Sale Integration
89. WADEX : Word
and Author Index WAN: Wide Area Network.
90. WCDMA : Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
91. WIPO: World Intellectual Property
Organization.
92. WORM : Write
Once Ready Many
93. WPI : World
Patents Index
94. WWW: World
Wide Web.
95. YAHOO : Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle
86. ZBB : Zeor Base Budgeting
