SELECTED CATALOGUING TOOL ACRONYMS, ETC.

J. McRee Elrod                                       3 July 2008

AACR = Anglo American Cataloguing Rules (1968); AACR2 (1978, 1988,
  1998); published jointly by ALA, NLC, and LA

A-G MARCit see MARCit

AGent see MARCit

ACOC = Australian Committee of Cataloguing; member of JSC

ALA = American Library Association http://www.ala.org/

ALCTS = Association for Library Collections & Technical Services; member
of MARBI

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 = The bibliographic record component program of the PCC through
  which participants create cataloguing records using mutually agreed
  upon standards http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/bibofaq.html#1

Big Red Books see LCSH

BL = British Library

BNB = British National Bibliography

CanMARC see MARC

Catss see MARCit

CC:DA = Committee on Cataloging : Descriptive & Access of ALA, which
  develops proposals to JSC

CCC = Canadian Committee on Cataloguing; member of 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; sometimes pronounced "sip",
  but more often "see eye pea"

CLA = Canadian Library Association

CONSER = An international cooperative cataloguing program and component
  of PCC ; also used to refer to their
  manual   (commercial
  url)

CORC see OCLC

CPSO = Cataloging Policy & 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 = Dublin Core (a minimum standard for bibliographic records); also
  used for Dewey Decimal Classification, prefer DDC for the
  classification.

DCRB = Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books (LC manual); formerly BDRB
  (Bibliographic Description of Rare Books).

  DCRB is now being replaced by the DCRM series, with DCRM(B) in
  use since January 2007, i.e. _Descriptive cataloging of rare materials
  (books)_. DCRM(S) for serials and (M) for music are both in the works.
  It's a project of the Bibliographic Standards Committee of the Rare
  Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and
  Research Libraries.

DDC = Dewey Decimal Classification

DLC = Code for the Library of Congress in NUC and the MARC Code List for
  Organizations; used in MARC 040 of authority and bibliographic records
  created or revised by LC; "D" represents District of Columbia, where
  LC is located; DLC is also used to refer to the Depository Library
  Council, a group which advises the GPO on the U.S. Federal Depository
  Library Program, under which selected U.S. government publications are
  sent free to selected libraries

EAD see Metadata

ESTC = English Short Title Catalogue; data base hosted by RLG; covers
  English language titles published in Great Britain 1473-1800

FRAR = Functional Requirements of Authority Records (IFLA)

FRBR = Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records (IFLA)

FTP = File transfer protocol; method of data transmission via the
  Internet

GILS see Metadata.

GPO = U.S. Government Printing Office; cf. DLC

Green Book/Bible = Rules for Description Cataloging in the Library of
  Congress (1949)

GSAFD = Guidelines on Subject Access to Individual Works of Fiction,
  Drama, etc. (ALA);  When genre term from the list is used in 655,
  these lower case initials appear in $2

IFLA = International Federation of Library Associations

ILS = Integrated Library System.  A suite of automation programs which
  are used to automated the operations of a library, from acquisitions
  through cataloguing to circulation.  They range from simple freeware 
  programs which can be downloaded, to expensive systems to be purchased
  or leased.

ISBD = International Standard Bibliographic Description, from which
  the AACR punctuation marks come; initials following in curves indicate
  format for which intended, e.g. (G) general, (M) monographs

ISBN = International Standard Book Number (MARC 020)

ISSN = International Standard Serial Number (MARC 022)

JSC = Joint Steering Committee for AACR
   http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/jsc/

LA = Library Association (British)

LC = Used for both Library of Congress and Library of Congress
  Classification; prefer LCC for the classification; 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 CDS
  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 maintained jointly with NACO

LCRI = Library of Congress Rule Interpretations; The British Library,
  the National Library of Canada, and the National Library of Australia
  also have rule interpretations, which have been combined in AACR2
  Decisions & Rule Interpretations published by ALA and CLA

LCSH = Library of Congress Subject Headings

LITA = Library and Information Technology Association; member of MARBI

Mansell see NUC

MARBI = The ALCTS/LITA/RUSA Machine Readable Bibliographic Information
  (ALA) ; nine voting members make decisions concerning MARC21
  http://www.ala.org/alcts/organization/div/marbi/marbi.html

MARC = Machine Readable Cataloguing, coding for bibliographic
  information; MARC21 ("21" for 21st century) currently harmonizes
  USMARC,  CanMARC, and UKMARC with the loss of UKMARC's 248 for
  constituent parts

MARCit = Bibliographic utility featuring authority control owned by
  Auto-Graphics, replacing Canada's Catss (formerly Utlas); renamed
  AGent; also unrelated software for creating MARC records from websites

MCD = Music Cataloging Decisions (LC)

MeSH = Medical Subject Headings (NLM)

Metadata = Information about data, usually electronic data.

 There are many metadata schemes being used for specific tasks by
 various groups. Some are as complex as MARC21, FGDC for example.
 but most are less complex and use natural language tags rather than
 numbers.

EAD (Encoded Archival Description) is used by the archival community.
 It even will accept MARC tags. http://www.loc.gov/ead/

GILS (Government Information Locator Service) is used extensively and
 is supported by Z39.50. http://www.gils.net/

METS (Metadata Encoding & Transmission) is a bit like RDF in that it
 can use many metadata schemes. http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/

 There are many others. TEI, PICS and V Card for example. IFLA keeps
 quite a long list at: http://www.ifla.org/II/metadata.htm

 [Thanks to David Bigwood for agreeing to the addition of these links to
 this list; http://www.catalogablog.blogspot.com.]

MHCC = MARC Harmonization Coordinating Committee.  On August 16, 2002,
 in Glasgow, the members of MHCC completed the signing of an agreement
 confirming the commitment of the National Library of Canada, the
 Library of Congress and the British Library to work together on the
 maintenance and development of the MARC21 format.

NACO = Cooperative name authority program component of PCC; responsible
  for the NAF

NAF = Name Authority File (LCNA)

NLC = National Library of Canada

NLM = National Library of Medicine (U.S.) or National Library of
  Medicine Classification (substitutes "W" for LCC's "R" for medicine)

NUC = National Union Catalogue (in both U.S. and Canada); U.S. NUC began
  as LC book version of its printed cards; pre 1956 imprints also called
  Mansell for its publisher; in microform only post 1983

OCLC = Online Computer Library Center, Inc.; bibliographic utility which
  began as Ohio College Library Center; based in Dublin, Ohio;
  proprietor of WoldCat and CORC (Cooperative Online Resource Catalog, a
  metadata creation systems for websites) http://www.oclc.org/corc/

ONIX see Metadata

OPAC = Onlline Public Access Catalogue

PCC = Program for Cooperative Cataloging (LC); comprised of BIBCO,
  CONSER, NACO and SACO (q.v.)

RDA = Resource Description and Access, the projected replacement for 
  AACR (q.v.) expected 2008 as web and print product

RDF see Metadata

Red Book/Bible = ALA Cataloguing Rules for Author and Title Entries
  (1949)

Red Books see LCSH

RI see LCRI

RLG see RLIN

RLIN = Bibliographic utility of Research Libraries Group (RLG).  
  Database absorbed by OCLC.

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

RUSA = Reference User & Services Association; member of MARBI

RVM  = Repertoire de vedettes-matiere, Canadian French subject headings

SACO = Subject Authority Cooperative Program component of PCC (LC) for
  submitting additions and changes to LCSH

SCM = Subject Cataloging Manual (LC) in three sections:
  SCM:SH Subject Headings
  SCM:S  Shelflisting
  SCM:C  Classification

SUDOC = Superintendent of Documents (U.S.) classification MARC 086 0

UBC = Universal Bibliographic Control, a program of IFLA

UDC = Universal Decimal Classification, an European scheme which allows
  number building to express relationships between subjects

UKMARC = British MARC, to be superseded by MARC21

UniMARC =  International MARC (IFLA); less used that MARC21

USMARC see MARC

Utlas see MARCit

WLN = Washington/Western Library Network; former bibliographic utility
  featuring quality and authority control, absorbed by OCLC

WorldCat see OCLC

WWW = World Wide Web; electronic information network