| AACR |
|
Anglo-American Cataloging Rules |
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| ACM |
|
Association for Computing Machinery |
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| AHA |
|
American Historical Association |
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| A&LD |
|
Arts and Letters Daily |
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| AMS |
|
American Mathematical Society |
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| ANSI |
|
American National Standards Institute |
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| ARL |
|
Association of Research Libraries |
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| ASCII |
|
American Standard Code for Information Interface |
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| ATM |
|
asynchronous transfer mode |
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| CCF |
|
circulation control facility |
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| CD-ROM |
|
compact disk read-only memory |
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| CDS |
|
Cataloging Distribution Service |
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| CEO |
|
chief executive officer |
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| CIC |
|
Committee on Institutional Cooperation |
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| CIO |
|
chief information officer |
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| CIP |
|
Cataloging in Publication |
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| CLIR |
|
Council on Library and Information Resources |
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| CNRI |
|
Corporation for National Research Initiatives |
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| COINS |
|
Copyright Office In-Process System |
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| COPICS |
|
Copyright Office Publication and Interactive Cataloging System |
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| CORC |
|
Cooperative Online Resource Cataloging project |
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| CORDS |
|
Copyright Office Electronic Registration, Recordation, and Deposit System |
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| CPSO |
|
Cataloging Policy and Support Office |
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| CRS |
|
Congressional Research Service |
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| CSDGM |
|
Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata |
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| CSTB |
|
Computer Science and Telecommunications Board |
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| DARPA |
|
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
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| DCES |
|
Dublin Core Element Set |
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| DCMI |
|
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative |
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| DFG |
|
Digital Futures Group |
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| DOE |
|
U.S. Department of Energy |
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| DTD |
|
document type definition |
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| EAD |
|
encoded archival description |
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| ECIP |
|
Electronic Cataloging in Publication |
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| EDI |
|
electronic data interchange |
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| FCC |
|
Federal Communications Commission |
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| FGDC |
|
U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee |
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| FRBR |
|
functional requirements for bibliographic records |
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| FTE |
|
full-time equivalent |
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| FTP |
|
file transfer protocol |
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| GIF |
|
graphics interchange format |
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| GIS |
|
geographical information system |
|
| GLIN |
|
Global Legal Information Network |
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| GPO |
|
U.S. Government Printing Office |
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| HR |
|
human resources |
|
| HRS |
|
Human Resources Services (directorate) |
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| HTML |
|
hypertext markup language |
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| HTTP |
|
hypertext transfer protocol |
|
| IATH |
|
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities |
|
| IFLA |
|
International Federation of Library Associations |
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| ILS |
|
Integrated Library System |
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| IP |
|
intellectual property |
|
| IR |
|
information retrieval |
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| ISBN |
|
International Standard Book Number |
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| ISIS |
|
Inquiry Status Information System |
|
| ISO |
|
International Organization for Standardization |
|
| ISSN |
|
International Standard Serial Number |
|
| ITS |
|
Information Technology Services (directorate) |
|
| ITVSRP |
|
information technology vision, strategy, research, and planning group |
|
| K-12 |
|
kindergarten through grade 12 |
|
| LC |
|
Library of Congress |
|
| LHNCBC |
|
Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications |
|
| LIS |
|
Legislative Information System |
|
| LOCIS |
|
Library of Congress Information System |
|
| MARC |
|
machine-readable cataloging |
|
| MEDLINE |
|
index of online medical journals and information at the National Library of Medicine |
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| MPAA |
|
Motion Picture Association of America |
|
| MUMS |
|
Multiple Use MARC System |
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| NAL |
|
National Agricultural Library |
|
| NARA |
|
National Archives and Records Administration |
|
| NCBI |
|
National Center for Biotechnology Information |
|
| NDL |
|
National Digital Library |
|
| NDLP |
|
National Digital Library Program |
|
| NEDLIB |
|
Networked European Deposit Library |
|
| NEH |
|
National Endowment for the Humanities |
|
| NISO |
|
National Information Standards Organization |
|
| NIST |
|
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology |
|
| NLM |
|
National Library of Medicine |
|
| NLP |
|
natural language processing |
|
| NLSBPH |
|
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped |
|
| NRC |
|
National Research Council |
|
| NSF |
|
National Science Foundation |
|
| NTE |
|
not to exceed |
|
| NUC |
|
National Union Catalog |
|
| OAIS |
|
Open Archival Information System |
|
| OCLC |
|
Online Computer Library Center |
|
| OD |
|
books on demand |
|
| OPAC |
|
online public access catalog |
|
| OS |
|
operating system |
|
| OSTI |
|
Office of Scientific and Technical Information (in the Department of Energy) |
|
| PDF |
|
portable document format |
|
| PICS |
|
Platform for Internet Content Selection |
|
| PMED |
|
Planning, Management, and Evaluation Directorate |
|
| PPBEEES |
|
Planning, Programming, Budgeting, Evaluation, Executing, and Evaluation System |
|
| PPLF |
|
Public Policy Literature File |
|
| PPOC |
|
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog |
|
| R&D |
|
research and development |
|
| RDF |
|
resource description framework |
|
| RFP |
|
request for proposals |
|
| RLG |
|
Research Libraries Group |
|
| SCORPIO |
|
Subject Content Oriented Retriever for Processing Information Online |
|
| SGML |
|
standard generalized markup language |
|
| TAB |
|
technical advisory board |
|
| TCP |
|
transmission control protocol |
|
| TIFF |
|
tagged image file format |
|
| UNIX |
|
Universal Interactive Executive (operating system) |
|
| URL |
|
uniform resource locator |
|
| URN |
|
universal resource name |
|
| W3C |
|
World Wide Web Consortium |
|
| XML |
|
extensible markup language |
|
| Y2K |
|
year 2000 |
