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Cataloging Acronyms and Idioms

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AACR
Anglo American Cataloguing Rules, esp. the original (1968) ed.  
 
AACR2
Anglo American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed. (1978); rev. 1988 (AACR2R) and 1998  
 
ACOC
Australian Committee on Cataloguing  
 
A-G MARCit
see MARCit  
 
ALA
American Library Association
http://www.ala.org/  
 
AusMARC
Australian MARC; largely replaced by MARC21  
 
Autocat
An electronic forum for the discussion of all questions relating to cataloguing and authority control in libraries
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/autocat/autocats.html  
 
BDRB see DCRB  
 
BIBCO
Cooperative monographic cataloging program, a component of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (LC), through which participants create cataloging records using mutually agreed upon standards
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/bibcofaq.html#1  
 
Big Red Books
LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings) in printed form  
 
BL
British Library
http://www.bl.uk/  
 
BNB
British National Bibliography  
 
CanMARC see MARC  
 
Catss
See MARCit  
 
CCC
Canadian Committee on Cataloguing  
 
CC:DA
Committee on Cataloging : Descriptive & Access of ALA, which develops proposals to JSC  
 
CDS
Cataloging Distribution Service (LC)
http://www.loc.gov/cds/  
 
CIP
Catalog(u)ing in Publication; data provided by national cataloguing agencies for printing on the verso of title pages; also incomplete MARC record based on that data; pronounced "sip" or "see eye pea"
CLA
Canadian Library Association  
 
CONSER
An international cooperative serials cataloging program, now a component of Program for Cooperative Cataloging (LC); also used to refer to their manual.
http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/  
 
CORC
Cooperative Online Resource Catalog, a metadata creation systems for websites (OCLC)
http://www.oclc.org/corc/; see also OCLC  
 
CPSO
Cataloging Policy and Support Office (LC)
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/  
 
CSB
Cataloging Service Bulletin (LC). ISSN 0160-8029.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/cds/train.html#csb  
 
DC
Dewey Classification or Dublin Core (the latter a minimum standard for bibliographic records); better to use DDC for Dewey Classification  
 
DCRB
Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books (LC manual); formerly BDRB (Bibliographic Description of Rare Books); both given in lower case  
 
DDC
Dewey Decimal Classification  
 
DLC
Code (NUC/OCLC/MARC) for the Library of Congress, according to the MARC Code List for Organizations, found in the 040 (cataloging source) field of MARC authority and bibliographic records created or updated by staff at the Library of Congress; "D" represents District of Columbia, where LC is located.  
 
EAD
Encoded Archive Description
http://www.loc.gov/ead/  
 
ESTC
English Short-Title Catalogue, database hosted by RLG; English-language publications and all publications in Great Britain 1473-1800
 
FRAD
Functional Requirements for Authority Data
http://www.ifla.org/publications/functional-requirements-for-authority-data
 
FRBR
Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records
http://www.ifla.org/publications/functional-requirements-for-bibliographic-records
 
FTP
File transfer protocol; method of data transmission via the Internet  
 
Green Book
Rules for Description Cataloging in the Library of Congress (1949)  
 
GSAFD
Guidelines on subject access to individual works of fiction, drama, etc. (ALA). The code "gsafd" is used in the subfield 2 of MARC field 655 to indicate that the genre term used in that field comes from the list of genre headings included in GSAFD. When genre term from the list is used in 655, these initials appear in $2.  
 
IFLA
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.
http://www.ifla.org/  
 
ISBD
International Standard for Bibliographic Description, from which the AACR punctuation marks come; initials following in parentheses indicate format for which intended, e.g. (G) general, (M) monographs  
 
ISBN
International Standard Bibliographic Number (MARC 020)
Bowker's Frequently Asked Questions about the ISBN : http://www.isbn.org/standards/home/isbn/us/isbnqa.html  
 
ISSN
International Standard Serials Number (MARC 022)
Library of Congress pamplet ISSN is for Serials :
http://lcweb.loc.gov/issn/issnbro.html  
 
JSC
Joint Steering Committee for AACR  
 
LA
Library Association (British)  
 
LC or LOC
Library of Congress. LC's Online Catalog:
http://www.loc.gov/catalog  
 
LCC
Library of Congress Classification  
 
LCCN
Library of Congress Control Number (formerly Library of Congress Card Number); carried in MARC field 001 in records distributed by Cataloging Distribution Service and in MARC field 010
http://loc.gov/marc/lccn.html; also Library of Congress Cataloging Newsline, the electronic journal of the Cataloging Directorate
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/lccn/lccn.html  
 
LCNA
Library of Congress Name Authorities; originally LC's own name authority file, now maintained jointly with NACO  
 
LCRI
Library of Congress Rule Interpretations. The British Library and the National Library of Canada also have rule interpretations, which have been combined in AACR2 Decisions & Rule Interpretations published by ALA and CLA  
 
LCSH
Library of Congress Subject Headings  
 
Mansell
see NUC  
 
MARBI
Machine Readable Bibliographic Information committee; "the body within the American Library Association responsible for developing official ALA positions on standards for the representation in machine-readable form of bibliographic information. MARBI focuses its attention on the development of the MARC format."
http://www.ala.org/alcts/organization/div/marbi/marbi.html  
 
MARC
Machine Readable Cataloguing, coding for bibliographic information; MARC 21 ("21" for 21st century) currently harmonizes USMARC and CANMARC.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/
 
 
MARCit
Bibliograhic utility featuring authority control owned by Auto-Graphics replacing Canada's Catss (formerly Utlas); unrelated software for creating MARC records from websites  
 
MCD
Music Cataloging Decisions; published by the Library of Congress, these are the music equivalent of the LCRIs  
 
MeSH
Medical Subject Headings (NLM).
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html  
 
NACO
Cooperative name authority program, a component of PCC (LC) and responsible for the NAF
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/naco.html  
 
NAF
Name Authority File or National Authority File (also known as LCNA)  
 
NLC
National Library of Canada.
http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/  
 
NLM
National Library of Medicine or National Library of Medicine Classification (substitutes "W" for LCC's "R" for medicine; also adds "QS" through "QZ" for the pre-clinical sciences--biochemistry, anatomy, microbiology, pathology, etc.). http://wwwcf.nlm.nih.gov/class/  
 
NUC
National Union Catalog (printed volumes; microfiche only from 1983); pre-1956 imprints also called Mansell for its publisher.  
 
OCLC
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., international bibliographic service, based in Dublin, Ohio; proprietor of WorldCat. Began as Ohio College Library Center.
http://www.oclc.org/home/  
 
PCC
Program for Cooperative Cataloging (LC); its components are BIBCO, CONSER, NACO and SACO
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/  
 
RDA (Resource Description and Access)
The "working title of the new standard that will be the successor to AACR2." For information about this work in progress, see:
http://www.rda-jsc.org/rda.html
 
Red Book
ALA Cataloguing Rules for Author and Title Entries (1949)  
 
RI see LCRI  
 
RLG
Research Libraries Group  
 
RLIN
Bibliographic database of RLG  
 
RSN
Record sequence number; 001 and 010 at LC, 001 and 016 at NLC, 001 in other systems; other system numbers sometimes moved to 035  
 
SACO
Subject Authority Cooperative Program, a component of PCC (LC), a conduit for submitting additions and changes to LCSH.
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/saco.html  
 
SCM
Subject Cataloging Manual (LC). In three sections:
   SCM:C Subject Cataloging Manual. Classification
   SCM:S Subject Cataloging Manual. Shelflisting
   SCM:SH Subject Cataloging Manual. Subject Headings  
 
SUDOC
Superintendent of Documents (U.S.) classification MARC 086 0  
 
UBCIM
Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC Core Programme at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Its purpose is "to coordinate activities aimed at the development of systems and standards for bibliographic control at the national level and the international exchange of bibliographic data...."
http://www.ifla.org/VI/3/ubcim.htm  
 
UDC
Universal Decimal Classification, an European scheme which allows number building to express relationships between subjects  
 
UKMARC
U.K. MARC format; likely to be superseded by MARC 21  
 
UniMARC
International MARC format (IFLA); less used than MARC 21  
 
USMARC
The United States MARC format, now MARC 21; previously LCMARC  
 
Utlas
see MARCit  
 
WLN
Washington/Western Library Network; former bibliographic utility featuring quality and authority control purchased by OCLC  
 
WorldCat
The OCLC bibliographic database  
 
WWW
World Wide Web; electronic information network

Note: This list is complilation of terms and urls submitted by members of the AUTOCAT electronic discussion list (see above for URL). My thanks go out to all those who contributed their time and expertise.

Any typographical or formatting errors are mine alone.


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