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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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