| Acronym |
Expansion |
| AACR |
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. |
| AACR2 |
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed. |
| ABSA |
Association of Business Sponsorship for the Arts. |
| ALA |
American Library Association. |
| ALF |
Ayrshire Libraries Forum. |
| ASVA |
Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions. |
| BAILER |
British Association for Information and Library Education and Research. |
| BCM |
British Catalogue of Music. |
| BIBCO |
Monographic Bibliographic Record program of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging of the Library of Congress. |
| BL |
British Library. |
| BLSA |
British Library Sound Archive. |
| BNB |
British National Bibliography. |
| BOPCRIS |
British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service. |
| BOSLIT |
Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation. |
| BSI |
British Standards Institution. |
| BUCEM |
British Union Catalogue of Early Music. |
| BUCOMP |
British Union Catalogue of Music Periodicals. |
| CAIRNS |
Co-operAtive Information Retrieval Network for Scotland. A distributed Z39.50 union catalogue for Scottish libraries. |
| CASS |
Collaborative Academic Store for Scotland. |
| CCM |
Collaborative Collection Management. |
| CDG |
Career Development Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. |
| CDLR |
Centre for Digital Library Research. Based at Strathclyde University in Glasgow. |
| CERL |
Consortium of European Research Libraries. |
| CHEST |
Combined Higher Education Software Team. |
| CIE |
Common Information Environment. |
| CIGS |
Cataloguing & Indexing Group in Scotland. The Scottish branch of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals' Cataloguing & Indexing Group (CIG). |
| CILIP |
Chartered Institution of Library and Information Professionals. Previously the Library Association. |
| CILIPS |
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland. Formerly the Scottish Library Association. |
| CISAG |
Common Information Standards Advisory Group. |
| CLSCP |
Copyright Libraries Shared Cataloguing Programme. |
| CoDONC |
Conference of Directors of National Collections. |
| CONSER |
Cooperative Online Serials. |
| COPAC |
CURL (Consortium of research libraries in the British Isles) Online Public Access Catalogue. |
| COSMIC |
Confederation of Scottish Mini-Co-operatives. |
| CPD |
Continuing Professional Development. |
| CRM |
Customer Relationship Management. |
| CUL |
Cambridge University Library. |
| DAITSS |
Dark Archive In The Sunshine State. |
| DAM |
Digital Asset Management. |
| DAMS |
Digital Asset Management System. |
| DC |
Dublin Core. |
| DCC |
Digital Curation Centre. |
| DCRB |
Descriptive Cataloguing of Rare Books. |
| DCRM |
Descriptive Cataloguing of Rare Materials. |
| DDC |
Dewey Decimal Classification. |
| DIDET |
Digital Libraries for Global Distributed Innovative Design, Education
and Teamwork project
|
| DNER |
Distributed National Electronic Resource. |
| DOI |
Digital Object Identifier. |
| DOMS |
Digital Object Management System. |
| DPA |
Data Protection Act. |
| DPC |
Digital Preservation Coalition. |
| DRM |
Digital Rights Management. |
| DSTL |
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. |
| DTD |
Document Type Definition. |
| EAD |
Encoded Archival Description. |
| EBS |
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society. |
| ECCO |
Eighteenth Century Collections Online. |
| ECDL |
European Computer Driving License. |
| EDI |
Electronic Data Interchange. |
| EEBO |
Early English Books Online. |
| EGIF |
Electronic Government Interoperability Framework. |
| EGMS |
Electronic Government Metadata Standard. |
| ELF |
Edinburgh Libraries Federation. |
| ELISA |
Edinburgh Libraries and Information Services Agency. |
| ESTC |
English Short Title Catalogue. |
| EUCS |
Edinburgh University Computing Services. |
| EUDL |
Edinburgh University Data Library. |
| EUL |
Edinburgh University Library. |
| EWCL |
Edinburgh World City of Literature. |
| FOISA |
Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act. |
| FRANAR |
Functional Requirements And Numbering of Authority Records. |
| FRBR |
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. |
| GALT |
Glasgow Area Libraries Together. |
| GCG |
Glasgow Colleges Group. |
| GDL |
Glasgow Digital Library. |
| GIS |
Geographic Information Systems. |
| GPS |
Global Positioning System. |
| GTN |
Glasgow Telecolleges Network. |
| HAIRST |
Harvesting Institutional Resources in Scotland Testbed. |
| HEAG |
Health Executive Advisory Group. |
| HEIST |
Higher Education Information Services Trust. |
| HELICON |
Health libraries and Information Confederation. |
| HERON |
Higher Education resources ON-demand. |
| HILT |
High Level Thesaurus. A project funded by JISC. |
| HLF |
Heritage Lottery Fund |
| HLG |
Health Libraries Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. |
| HMSO |
Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. |
| HTML |
Hypertext Mark-up Language. |
| IAMFA |
International Association of Museum Facility Administrators. |
| IAML |
International Association of Music Libraries. |
| IASA |
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives. |
| ICB |
International Cataloguing & Bibliographic Control (of serials). |
| ICOLC |
International Coalition of Library Consortia. |
| ICT |
Information and Communications Technology. |
| IFLA |
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions |
| ILS |
Integrated Library System. |
| IMS |
Instructional Management Systems. |
| IMS-CP |
IMS Global Learning Consortium – Content Packaging Information Model. |
| ISAD(G) |
International Standard Archival Description (General). |
| ISBD |
International Standard Bibliographic Description. |
| ISBN |
The International Standard Book Number is a unique 10 digit number identifying a specific edition or printing of a book. Different numbers are often given to the hardback and paperback versions of a book, as well as reprints by different publishers.
The first part of the number identifies the language of the book and the publisher, the middle part is a unique number assigned by the publisher, and the last digit is a "check digit" created by applying a mathematical formula to the first 9 digits. The check digit can be "X", representing the number 10, which is allowed by the formula. |
| ISG |
Information Services Group of the Chartered Institution of Library and Information Professionals. |
| ISO |
International Standards Organization. |
| ISSN |
The International Standard Serial Number is a unique 8 digit number identifying a specific serial title. A different number is assigned every time a serial changes title. |
| ISTC |
Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue. |
| JAKE |
Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment. |
| JANET |
Joint Academic Network. |
| JHOVE |
JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment. |
| JISC |
Joint Information Systems Committee. |
| JMA |
John Murray Archive. |
| KISS |
Keep It Simple Stupid. |
| LA |
Library Association. Now the Chartered Institution of Library and Information Professionals. |
| LC |
Library of Congress. |
| LCC |
Library of Congress Classification. |
| LCSH |
Library of Congress Subject Headings. |
| LDL |
Legal Deposit Libraries. |
| LDLC |
Legal Deposit Libraries Committee. |
| LDLSCP |
Legal Deposit Libraries Shared Cataloguing Programme |
| LGSL |
Local Government Services List. |
| LIBER |
Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche. |
| LIRG |
Library and Information Research Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. |
| LIS |
Library and Information Service, or Library and Information Science. |
| LISA |
Library & Information Science Abstracts. |
| LTS |
Learning and Teaching Scotland. |
| MAGEC |
Museum and Galleries Energy and Carbon forum. |
| MARC |
Machine Readable Cataloguing. |
| MARCXML |
XML framework for MARC. |
| MARS |
Music and Audio Resources Scotland. |
| MEG |
The Metadata for Education Group, "an open forum for debating the description and provision of educational resources at all educational levels across the United Kingdom". |
| METS |
Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard. |
| MGF3 |
Modernising Government Fund (Round 3) Programme. |
| MIX |
Metadata for Images in XML standard. |
| MLA (1) |
Medical Library Association. |
| MLA (2) |
Music Library Association. |
| MLA (3) |
Museums Libraries and Archives Council. |
| MLE |
Managed Learning Environment. |
| MMLJ |
Mass Market Leisure Journal. |
| MODS |
Metadata Object Description Schema. |
| MPA |
Music Publishers Association. |
| MPEG-21 |
Moving Picture Expert Group 21: Multimedia Framework initiative. |
| MPEG-7 |
Moving Picture Expert Group 7: Multimedia Content Description Interface. |
| NACO |
Name Authority Cooperative Program of the Library of Congress. |
| NAG |
National Acquisitions Group. |
| NAS |
National Archives of Scotland. |
| NDPB |
Non-Departmental Public Body. |
| NGfL |
National Grid for Learning. |
| NGfL(S) |
National Grid for Learning (Scotland). |
| NISO |
National Information Standards Organization. |
| NLS |
National Library of Scotland. |
| NLW |
National Library of Wales. |
| NOF |
New Opportunities Fund. |
| OAI |
Open Archives Initiative. |
| OAI-PMH |
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. |
| OAIS |
Open Archival Information System. |
| OATS |
Open Access Team for Scotland. |
| OCLC |
Online Computer Library Center. |
| OPAC |
Online Public Access Catalogue. |
| OPSI |
Office of Public Sector Information. |
| OSIAF |
Open Scotland Information Age Framework. |
| PATMG |
Patents and Trademarks Group of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. |
| PCC |
Program for Cooperative Cataloguing of the Library of Congress. |
| PDA |
Personal Digital Assistant. |
| PDF |
Portable Document Format. |
| RCO |
Research Collections Online. A service created by SCURL to assess subject strengths of general collections of interest to researchers. |
| RDA |
Resource Description and Access. |
| RDF |
Resource Description Framework |
| RIdIM |
Répertoire International d'Iconographie Musicale. |
| RILM |
Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale. |
| RIMP |
Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals. |
| RISM |
Répertoire International des Sources Musicale. |
| RLG |
Research Libraries Group. |
| RLIN |
Research Libraries Information Network. |
| RSLP |
Research Support Libraries Programme. |
| SACO |
Subject Authority Cooperative Program of the Library of Congress. |
| SALCTG |
Scottish Academic Libraries Cooperative Training Group. |
| SALP |
Scottish Adult Learning Partnership. |
| SALSER |
Scottish Academic Libraries Serials. |
| SAPIENS |
Scottish Academic Periodicals: Implementing an Effective Networked Service. |
| SAS |
Statistical Accounts of Scotland. |
| SCA |
Scottish Council on Archives. |
| SCABS |
Scottish Consortium for Academic Book Supply. |
| SCAMP |
Scottish Collections Access Management Portal. A Web-based interface for updating the SCONE service database. |
| SCAN |
Scottish Archive Network. |
| SCI |
Scottish Cooperative Infrastructure. A set of embryonic offline and online mechanisms to support collaborative work aimed at building and developing 'Virtual Scotland'. |
| SCIE |
Scottish Common Information Environment. An initiative aiming to facilitate collaborative and cross-sectoral partnerships capable of building a common on-line information environment for Scotland, within the wider UK CIE. |
| SCONE project |
Scottish Collections Network Extension project. |
| SCONE service |
Scottish Collections Network. |
| SCONUL |
Society of College and National and University Libraries. |
| SCORM |
Sharable Courseware Object Reference Model. |
| SCOTBIS |
Scottish Business Information Service. |
| SCP |
Shared Cataloguing Programme. |
| SCURL |
Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries. |
| SDDL |
Scottish Distributed Digital Library. A coherent digital learning, information and research landscape for all Scots, collaboratively built and maintained via an agreed nation-wide, standards based, globally interoperable, cooperative infrastructure. |
| SESLIN |
South East Scotland Library Information Network. |
| SFEU |
Scottish Further Education Unit. |
| SICI |
Serial Item & Contribution Identifier. |
| SLA |
Scottish Library Association. Now the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland. |
| SLIC |
Scottish Library and Information Council. |
| SLIR |
Scottish library and information resources; a publication of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS). |
| SMART |
Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-bound. |
| SMC |
Scottish Museums Council. |
| SNIPES |
Scotland / N. Ireland Periodical Supply. |
| SPEIR |
Scottish Portals for Education, Information and Research. |
| SPIS |
Shared Preservation in Scotland. |
| SPL |
Scottish Poetry Library. |
| SSISWG |
Scottish Science Information Strategy Working Group. |
| SSL |
Secure Sockets Layer. |
| SUNCAT |
United Kingdom Serials Union Catalogue. |
| SVAG |
Scottish Visual Arts Group. |
| SWOP |
Scottish Working Group on Official Publications which maintains a directory of collections of national government and international agency publications. |
| SWOT |
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats. |
| TAFLIN |
Tayside and Fife Library Information Network. |
| TDR |
Trusted Digital Repositories. |
| TEI |
Text Encoding Initiative. |
| TEL |
The European Library. |
| TextMD |
Schema for Technical Metadata for Text. |
| TNA |
The National Archives. |
| TOC |
Table of Contents. |
| TSO |
The Stationery Office. |
| UDC |
Universal Decimal Classification. |
| UHI |
University of the Highlands & Islands Millennium Institute. |
| UKCHIP |
UK Council of Health Information Professionals. |
| UKERNA |
United Kingdom Education and Research Networking Association. |
| UKOLN |
Formerly UK Office for Library Networking. |
| UKOP |
United Kingdom Official Publications. |
| UKSG |
United Kingdom Serials Group. |
| URL |
Uniform Resource Locator. |
| VLE |
Virtual Learning Environment. |
| W3C |
The World Wide Web Consortium. |
