Important Meanings - Abbreviations & Dates regarding Library

□                  Scopus: Abstract and citation database of research literature

□                  J-Store (1995): Journal Storage

□                  Emeralds: Full text Journal Publishers

□                  Science Direct: Full-text scientific database

□                  ERIC: Education Resources Information Center, is the world’s largest digital library of education literature

□                  J-Gate (2001): J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global e-journal literature

□                  Project MUSE (1993): Online database of more than 200 journals from nonprofit publishers

□                  EBSCO: Reference Databases

□                  Pubmed: Citations for biomedical articles from MEDLINE

□                  IndMed: A Bibliographic Database of Indian Biomedical Literature is an indexing of medical and other biomedical journals from India not cover in Medline

□                  INIS: The INIS Database, contains over 3 million bibliographic records

□                  LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts is an international abstracting and indexing tool designed for library professionals and other information specialists

□                  Genamics JournalSeek: Genamics JournalSeek is the largest completely categorized database of freely available journal information available on the internet. The database presently contains 95320 titles. Journal information includes the description (aims and scope), journal abbreviation, journal homepage link, subject category and ISSN.

□                  Econlit: The American Economic Association’s electronic bibliography, EconLit, indexes more than thirty years of economics literature from around the world. Compiled and abstracted in an easily searchable format, EconLit is a comprehensive index of journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers and dissertations

□                  REPEC: Research Papers in economics. Collaborative volunteer effort to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. The database contains information on more than 585,000 items

□                  OCLC Worldcat: A global catalog of library collections.

□                  Tamil Nadu (formerly Madras) Public Libraries Act. 1948

□                  Andhra Pradesh Public Libraries Act. 1960

□                  Karnataka Public Library Act 1965

□                  Maharashtra Public Libraries Act 1967

□                  West Bengal Public Libraries Act 1979

□                  Manipur Public Libraries Act 1988

□                  Kerala Public Libraries Act 1989

□                  Haryana Public Libraries Act 1989

□                  Mizoram Public Libraries Act 1993

□                  Goa Public Libraries Act 1993

□                  Gujarat Public Libraries Act 2002

□                  Orissa Public Library Act 2002

□                  Uttaranchal Public Libraries Act, 2005.

□                  Rajasthan Public Libraries Act 2006

□                  Delhi Public Library 1951

□                  DRTC, Bangalore 1962

□                  Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation 1972

□                  Connemara Public Library 1890

□                  Khuda Baksha Oriental Public Library 1891

□                  Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune 1917

□                  Rampur Raza Library, Uttar Pradesh 1774

□                  State Lenin Library, Moscow 1862

□                  National Library of India- 1835

□                  Bibliothec Nationale, Pris (National Library, France) 1440

□                  National Diet Library, Japan 1948

□                  National Library, Germany 1912

□                  Library of Congress, USA 1800

□                  Library Association (UK)-1877 now Known as Chartered institute of Library and Information Professionals (From 2002) 1877 (now name changed in 2002 as CILIP)

□                  American Library Association- 1876

□                  Association of Special Libraries and Information Beureaux –ASLIB 1926

□    IFLA-1929 1929 UBC-1974, UAP-1976

□                  Special Library Association(SLA) 1909

□    FID 1982

□                  UNESCO 1945

□                  India Library Association 1933

□                  IASLIC 1955

□                  RRRLF 1972

□                  DDC by Melvil Dewey 1876

□                  Expansive Classification by C.A. Cutter- 1879

□                  Library of Congress Classification 1902

□                  Subject Classification by J. D. Brown 1906

□                  Colon Classification 1933

□                  Bibliographic Classification by H. E. Bliss 1935

□                  International Classification by F. Rider 1961.

□                  Library of Congress Subject Headings 1898

□                  Sears List of Subject Headings (SLSH) 1923

□                  AACR first published 1908

□                  MARC 1966

□                  AACR-I 1967

□    CCF 1972

□                  ISBD 1974

□                  UNIMARC 1977

□                  AACR-II 1978

□                  Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC) 1967

□                  Research Library Group (RLG)-RLIN 1974

□                  Joint Academic Network (JANET)

□                  Consortium of University Research Libraries (CURL) 1997

□                  China Academic Library & Information System 1998

□                  NICNET 1977

□                  CALIBNET 1986

□                  ERNET 1986

□                  INFLIBNET 1988

□                  DELNE 1992

□                  ADINET 1993

□                  MALIBNET 1993

□                  MYLIBNET 1994

□                  UGC INFONET 2002

□                  HELINET 2003

□                  Asia and Pacific Information Network (APIN)

□                  Information Society program for Latin America and The Caribbean (INFOLAC) 1986

□                  Global Network for Education in Journalism 1999

□                  Orbicom 1994

□                  UNESCO Network for Associated Library (UNAL)

□                  UNISIST Programme 1971

□                  CDS/ISIS 1985

□                  WINISIS Distributed

□                  SOUL 2000

□                  GREENSTONE 1997

□                  DSPACE 2002

□                  KOHA 2000

□                  NEWGENLIB 2007

□                  EPRINTS 2000

□                  Relational Indexing- J.E.L.Farradane 1950

□                  Coats Subject Indexing- E.J. Coats 1963

□                  PRECIS-Derek Austin 1974

□                  POPSI- G. Bhattacharya 1964

□                  Kaisers systematic Indexing 1911

□                  UNITERM- Martimer Taube 1953

□                  Science Citation Index 1974

□                  Social Science Citation Index 1973

□                  Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1978

□                  Roget’s Thesaurus 1852

□                  Andhra Pradesh Library Association, 1914

□                  Maharashtra Library Association, 1921

□                  Bengal Library Association, 1925

□                  Madras Library Association, 1928

□                  Karnataka Library Association, 1929

□                  Punjab Library Association, 1929

□                  Samastha Kerala Pustakalaya Samiti, 1931

□                  Bihar Library Association, 1936

□                  Assam Library Association, 1938

□                  Utkal Library Association, 1944

□                  Kerala Library Association, 1945

□                  Hyderabad Library Association, 1951

□                  U.P.Library Association, 1951

□                  Delhi Library Association, 1953

□                  Gujarat library Association, 1953

□                  Madhya Bharat Library Association, 1957

□                  Gomantak Library Association, 1961

□                  Rajasthan Library Association, 1962

□                  Jammu & Kashmir Library Association, 1966

□                  Tripura Library Association, 1967

□                  Manipur Library Association, 1987

□                  Mizoram Library Association, 1987

□                  Meghalaya Library Association, 1994

□                  Nagaland Library Association, 1996

□                  A&I – Abstracting and Indexing

□                  CRG – Classification Research Group

□                  AACR2 – Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, Second Edition

□                  AALL – American Association of Law Libraries

□                  AASL – American Association of School Librarians

□                  ABAA – Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America

□                  ACRL – Association of College & Research Libraries

□                  AGRIS – Agricultural Information System

□                  AHIP – Academy of Health Information Professionals

□                  AICTE – All India Council for Technical Education

□                  ALA – American Library Association

□                  ALC – Americans for Libraries Council

□                  ALCTS – Association for Library Collections and Technical Services.

□                  ALISE – Association for Library and Information Science Education

□                  ALISE – Association for Library and Information Science Education

□                  ALOHA – Astronomy Librarians of Hawaii Association

□                  ALP – Advancement for Librarianship

□                  ANSI – American National Standards Institute

□                  APA – American Psychological Association

□                  ARL – Association of Research Libraries

□                  ARLIS/ANZ – Arts Libraries Society of Australia and New Zealand

□                  ARLIS/NA – Art Libraries Society of North America

□                  ARLIS/UK & Ireland – Arts Libraries Society of the United Kingdom and Ireland

□                  ARMA International – Association of Records Managers and Administrators International

□                  ASCII – American Standard Code for Information Interchange

□                  ASIS – American Society for Information Science (and Technology)

□                  ASTED – Association pour l’avancement des Sciences et Tcchniques de la Documentation

□                  AV – Audio-Visual

□                  BALID – Bangladesh Association of Librarians, Information Scientists and Documentalists

□                  BCI – Bar Council of India

□                  BFM – Bibliographic File Maintenance

□                  BI – Bibliographic Instruction

□                  BIBCO – the monographic BIBliographic record COmponent of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging

□                  BIP – Books In Print

□                  BL – British Library

□                  BLISc – Bachelor of Library and Information Science

□                  BnF – Bibliothèque nationale de France

□                  BONET – Bombay Library Network

□                  BPL – Boston Public Library

□                  CAHSL – Connecticut Association of Health Sciences Librarians

□                  CALIBNET – Calcutta Network

□                  CAPS – Content, Abstract and Photocopy Service (INSDOC)

□                  CDA – Communications Decency Act

□                  CDC – Curriculum Development Committee

□                  CD-R – Compact Disc-Recordable

□                  CD-ROM – Compact Disc Read-Only Memory

□                  CD-RW – Compact Disc ReWritable

□                  CDS – Cataloging Distribution Service (Library of Congress)

□                  CDS/ISIS – Computerised Documentation Services Intregated Set of Information System

□                  CEP – Continuing Education Programme

□                  CILIP – Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

□                  CIP – Cataloging-In-Publication

□                  CLA – Canadian Library Association

□                  CLIR – Council on Library & Information Resources

□                  CLISc – Certificate Course in Library and Information Science

□                  CLS – Certificate in Library Science

□                  CNI – Coalition for Networked Information

□                  COMLA – Common Welth Library Association

□                  CONSER – Cooperative ONline SERials (PCC component)

□                  CPSO – Cataloging Policy and Support Office (Library of Congress)

□                  CSIR – Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

□                  CV – Curriculum Vitae

□                  DCM Z1 – Descriptive Cataloging Manual Z1 (“Yellow Pages”)

□                  DDB – die Deutsche Bibliothek (German National Library)

□                  DDC – Dewey Decimal Classification

□                  DDS – Document Delivery Service

□                  DEC – Distance Education Council

□                  DELNET – Delhi Library Network

□                  DESIDOC – Defense Scientific Information and Documentation Center

□                  DEVSIS – Development Science Information System

□                  DIRKS – Design and Implementation of Recordkeeping Systems

□                  DLIS – Department of Library and Information Science

□                  DLSc – Diploma in Library Science

□                  DMCA – Digital Millennium Copyright Act

□                  DOI – Digital Object Identifier

□                  DRC – Data Referral Centra

□                  DRM – Digital Rights Management

□                  DRTC – Documentation Research and Training Center

□                  DVD – Digital Video Disc

□                  ENVIS – Environment Information System

□                  ERIC – Educational Resources Information Clearinghouse

□                  FDLP – Federal Depotisitory Library Program

□                  FRBR – Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records

□                  GIF – Graphics Interchange Format

□                  GIS – Geographic Information Systems

□                  GPO – Government Printing Office

□                  GUI – Graphical User Interface

□                  HR – Human Resources

□                  HTML – HyperText Markup Language

□                  HTTP – HyperText Transfer Protocol

□                  HTTPS – HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure

□                  IALL – International Association of Law Libraries

□                  IAMSLIC – International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers

□                  IASLIC – Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centers

□                  IATLIS – Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science

□                  IB – Information Behavior

□                  ICSSR – Indian Council of Social Science Research

□                  ICT – Information and Communication Technology

□                  IE – Internet Explorer

□                  IFLA – International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

□                  IFLA – International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

□                  III – Innovative Interfaces, Incorporated

□                  IIT – Indian Institute of Technology

□                  ILA – Indian Library Association

□                  ILL – InterLibrary loan

□                  IMLS – Institute for Museum and Library Services

□                  INFLIBNET – Information and Library Network (UGC)

□                  INSDOC – Indian National Scientific Documentation Center

□                  ISBD – International Standard Bibliographic Description

□                  ISBN – International Standard Book Number

□                  ISC – Information for Social Change (Advocacy group : United Kingdom)

□                  ISP – Internet Service Provider

□                  ISSN – International Standard Serial Number

□                  IT – Information Technology

□                  JAKE – Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment

□                  JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group

□                  JSTOR – Journal STORage

□                  KWIC – KeyWord In Context

□                  KWOC – KeyWord Out of Context

□                  LAB – Library Association of Bangladesh

□                  LAN – Local Area Network

□                  LC – Library of Congress

□                  LCC – Library of Congress Classification

□                  LCCN – Library of Congress Control Number

□                  LCRI – Library of Congress Rule Interpretation(s)

□                  LCSH – Library of Congress Subject Heading

□                  LCSH – Library of Congress Subject Headings, aka “The Big Red Books”

□                  LFF – LIbrarians For Fairnesss

□                  LIS – Library and Information Science

□                  LIS – Library and Information Science (common abbreviation)

□                  LISA – Library and Information Science Abstracts

□                  LISA – Library and Information Services in Astronomy

□                  LISBd – Librarians and Information Scientists, Bangladesh

□                  LITA – Library and Information Technology Association

□                  LOCKSS – Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe

□                  LTTE – Letter To The Editor

□                  MALS – Master of Arts, Librarianship

□                  MARC – MAchine Readable Cataloging

□                  MARC – Machine Readable Catalogue

□                  MARC 21 Machine Readable Catalogue 21 Century

□                  MCI – Medical Council of India

□                  Medical Library Association

□                  MFHD – MARC Format for Holdings Data

□                  MIS – Master of Information Science

□                  MLA

□                  MLA – Modern Library Association

□                  MLIS – Master of Library and Information Science

□                  MLS – Master of Library Science

□                  Modern Language Association

□                  MSLIS – Master of Science in Library and Information Science

□                  Music Library Association

□                  NAAC – National Assessment and Accreditation Council

□                  NACO – the Name Authority COmponent of the PCC

□                  NAMTC – National Association of Media & Technology Centers

□                  NAR – Name Authority Record

□                  NASIG – North American Serials Interest Group

□                  NASSDOC – National Social Science Documentation Center

□                  NCLIS – National Commission on Libraries and Information Science

□                  NCTE – National Council for Teachers Education

□                  ND – No Date

□                  NISC – National Information Services Corporation

□                  NISCAIR – National Institute for Science Communication and Information Resources

□                  NISO – National Information Standards Organization

□                  NLA – Nevada Library Association

□                  NN/LM – National Network of Libraries of Medicine

□                  NTIS – National Technical Information Service

□                  NUC National Union Catalog

□                  NYPL – New York Public Library

□                  OCLC – Online Computer Library Center

□                  ODLIS – Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science

□                  OED – Oxford English Dictionary

□                  OP – Out of Print

□                  OPAC – Online Public Access Catalog

□                  OS – Out of Stock

□                  PC – Personal Computer

□                  PCC – Program for Cooperative Cataloging (Library of Congress)

□                  PDF – Portable Document Format

□                  PGDIT – Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology

□                  PGDLAN – Post Graduate Diploma in Library Automation and Networking

□                  PLA – Pakistan Library Association

□                  PLG – Progressive Librarians Guild (Advocacy group : chiefly United States)

□                  PMOLIB – Prime Minister’s Office Library

□                  PO – Purchase Order

□                  PPL – Peace Palace Library

□                  RA – Readers’ Advisory

□                  RAK – Regeln für Alphabetische Katalogisierung

□                  RDA – Resource Description and Access

□                  RDF – Resource Description Framework

□                  RFID – Radio Frequency IDentification

□                  RFK – Regeln für die Formalkatalogisierung

□                  RFP – Request For Proposal

□                  RIM – Records and Information Management

□                  RLG – Research Libraries Group

□                  RRRLF – Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation

□                  RSS – Multiple, depending on the version

□                  RSWK – Regeln für den Schlagwortkatalog

□                  RUSA – Reference and Users Services Association

□                  SAA – Society of American Archivists

□                  SACO – the Subject Authority COmponent of the PCC

□                  SCCTP – Serial Cataloging Cooperative Training Program

□                  SCM – Subject Cataloging Manual (Library of Congress)

□                  SIC code – Standard Industrial Classification code

□                  SLA – Special Libraries Association

□                  SMS reference – Short Message Service reference

□                  SPARC – Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition

□                  SRRT – Social Responsibilities Round Table (American Library Association)

□                  SSL – Secure sockets layer

□                  SuDoc – Superintendent of Documents

□                  t.p. – Title page

□                  TOC – Table Of Contents

□                  UDC – Universal Decimal Classification

□                  UGC – University Grants Commission

□                  URI – Unifrom Resource Indicator

□                  URL – Uniform Resource Locator

□                  USA PATRIOT Act – Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act