Acronym / Abbreviation | Meaning | Affiliation / Extent |
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AACR2 | Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition | International |
AAU | Association of American Universities | National |
ACRL | Association of College and Research Libraries | ALA |
AEC | art exhibition catalog | |
AFT | American Federation of Teachers | National |
AG | Administrative Group | UCSB Library |
ARES | Automating Reserves | Atlas Systems, Inc. |
ARK | archival resource key | |
ALMA | Alma Cloud-Based Library Platform Service | Ex Libris |
API | application programming interface | |
APM | Academic Personnel Manual | UC |
ARL | Association of Research Libraries | International |
ARSC | Association for Recorded Sound Collections | |
AUL | associate university librarian | |
BI | bibliographic instruction | |
CAAR | Committee on Appointments, Assignments and Reassignments | LAUC-SB |
CAP | Committee on Advancement and Promotion | LAUC-SB |
CARL | California Academic and Research Libraries | ACRL |
CBS | consortial borrowing software | |
CDL | California Digital Library | UCOP |
CEDI | Committee on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion | UCSB Library |
CEMA | California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives | UCSB Library – Special Collections |
CFP | call for papers | |
CFT | California Federation of Teachers | AFT |
CIC | Committee on Institutional Cooperation | Midwest, U.S. |
CIG | common interest group | |
CJK | Chinese, Japanese, and Korean | |
CKG | Common Knowledge Group | UC Libraries |
CLA | California Library Association | State |
CLIIR | Committee on Library, Information, and Instructional Resources | UCSB Academic Senate, CRIR |
CLIR | Council on Library and Information Resources | International |
CLOCKSS | Controlled LOCKSS (see LOCKSS) | International |
CMS | course management software; citation management software | |
CNI | Coalition for Networked Information | International |
CoUL | Council of University Librarians | UC Libraries |
COUNTER | Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources | International |
CREATE | Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology | UCSB Music Dept |
CRes | Course Reserves | UCSB Library |
CRIR | Council on Research and Instructional Resources | UCSB Academic Senate |
CRL | Center for Research Libraries | International |
CSD | Collection Services Division | UCSB Library |
CSL | California State Library | State |
CTD | call to discard | |
CTN | Colección Tloque Nahuaque | UCSB Library – EGSL |
CUE | Coalition of University Employees | UC |
DACS | Describing Archives: A Content Standard | Society of American Archivists |
DAHR | Discography of American Historical Recordings | UCSB Library |
DAM | digital asset management | |
DLD | Digital Library Development | UCSB Library |
DMP | Data Management Plan | CDL |
DOC | Direction and Oversight Committee | UC Libraries |
DOI | digital object identifier | |
DPR | Digital Preservation Repository | CDL |
DSR | Departmental Safety Representative | UCSB – EHS |
EAD | Encoded Archival Description | Library of Congress |
EDI | electronic data interchange | |
EDVR | Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings | UCSB Library |
EGSL | Ethnic and Gender Studies Library | UCSB Library |
EHS | Environmental Health and Safety | UCSB |
EL | Ex Libris | International |
ERES | Electronic Reserves | UCSB Library |
ERMS | electronic resources management system | |
ETDs | electronic theses and dissertations | |
EVC | Executive Vice Chancellor | UCSB |
EZID | Easy ID (long-term digital identifier) | CDL |
FAST | Faceted Application of Subject Terminology | OCLC |
FRBR | Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records | IFLA |
ICOLC | International Coalition of Library Consortia | International |
IHC | Interdisciplinary Humanities Center | UCSB |
IL | information literacy | |
ILL | Interlibrary Loan | |
ILS | integrated library system (e.g. ALEPH) | |
ISO | International Organization for Standardization | |
ISTL | Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship | ALA – ACRL – STS |
JSC | Joint Steering Committee on Shared Collections | CDL |
LAUC | Librarians Association of the University of California | UC |
LAUC-SB | Librarians Association of the University of California – Santa Barbara | UCSB Library |
LC | Library of Congress | USA |
LCGFT | Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms | Library of Congress |
LCMPT | Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus | Library of Congress |
LCSH | Library of Congress Subject Headings | Library of Congress |
LHR | local holdings record | |
LIT | Library Instruction Team | UCSB Library |
LITA | Library and Information Technology Association | ALA |
LLAMA | Library Leadership and Management Association | ALA |
LOCKSS | Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe | International |
LOM | learning object metadata | |
MARC | Machine-Readable Cataloging | International |
METS | Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard | Library of Congress |
MLA | Modern Language Association | National |
MLA | Music Library Association | National |
MODS | Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard | Library of Congress |
MOL | Melvyl Operations Liaisons | CDL |
MOT | Melvyl Operations Team | CDL |
MOU | Memorandum of Understanding, Professional Librarians Unit, American Federation of Teachers | UC |
MPLP | more product, less process | |
NDIPP | National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program | Library of Congress |
NGDA | National Geospatial Digital Archive | UCSB and other partners |
NGTS | Next Generation Technical Services | UC Libraries |
NISO | National Information Standards Organization | National |
NRLF | Northern Regional Library Facility | UC Libraries |
OAC | Online Archive of California | California |
OCA | Open Content Alliance | International |
OCLC | Online Computer Library Center | International |
OIT | Office of Information Technology | UCSB |
ORU | organized research unit | |
OSC | Office of Scholarly Communication | UC |
PCC | Program for Cooperative Cataloging | Library of Congress |
PID | persistent identifier | |
PDA | patron driven acquisition | |
PIR | patron initiated request | |
POTs | Power of Three groups | UC Libraries – NGTS |
PRIMO | Primo Library Discovery Service | Ex Libris |
PURL | persistent uniform resource locator | |
RDA | Resource Description and Access | International |
ReADS | Resource Acquisition and Discovery Services | UCSB Library |
RL | Resource Liaison | CDL |
RLF | Regional Library Facilities (NRLF and SRLF) | UC Libraries |
RLUK | Research Libraries UK | United Kingdom |
RPD | Research and Professional Development Committee | LAUC-SB |
RUSA | Reference and User Services Association
| ALA |
SAA | Society of American Archivists | |
SCA | Society of Californian Archivists
| |
SCIL | Southern California Instruction Librarians | CARL (California Academic and Research Libraries) |
SCP | Shared Cataloging Program | CDL |
SEL | Sciences-Engineering Library | UCSB Library |
SILS | UC Systemwide Integrated Library System | UC Libraries |
SLA | Special Libraries Association | International |
SLASIAC | Systemwide Library and Scholarly Information Advisory Committee | UCOP |
SLFB | Shared Library Facilities Board | UC Libraries |
SNIP | Source-Normalized Impact Factor per Paper | |
SPARC | Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition | ARL |
SPIP | shared print in place | |
SRLF | Southern Regional Library Facility | UC Libraries |
SSHA | Social Sciences and Humanities approval plan | UCSB Library with YBP |
STEP | Summer Transitional Enrichment Program | UCSB |
SUSHI | Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative | NISO |
SWOT | strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats | |
TF | task force | |
UC3 | University of California Curation Center | CDL |
UC-AFT | University Council – American Federation of Teachers | UC |
UCEN | University Center | UCSB |
UCLAS | University of California Libraries Advisory Structure | UC Libraries |
UCOLASC | University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication | UC – Academic Senate |
UCOP | University of California Office of the President | UC |
UL | University Librarian | |
UPTE | University Professional and Technical Employees | CWA |
VDX | Virtual Document eXchange | OCLC |
VLE | virtual learning environment | |
VPN | virtual private network (see Using the VPN for Accessing the Library Databases) | |
VRA | Visual Resources Association | |
WAS | Web Archiving Service
| CDL |
WASC | Western Association of Schools and Colleges | |
WEST | Western Regional Storage Trust | Western U.S. |
YBP | Yankee Book Peddler (book vendor for UCSB Library) | |
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