List of Acronyms

AACR2

Anglo American Cataloguing Rules. 2nd edition

ACNL

Advisory Committee on the National Libraries

ALASA

African Library Association of South Africa

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

API

Application Programming Interface

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

BLINDLIB  

South African Library for the Blind

bmp   

also known as Bitmap - format created by Microsoft®

CD-ROM

Compact Disc-Read Only Memory

CALICO

CapeLibrary Consortium

CNLSA

Conference of National Librarians of Southern Africa

COLIS

Community Library and Information Services

COSAUG

Customers of SirsiDynix Africa User Group

DAC

Department of Arts and Culture

DACST

Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology

DAISY

Digital Accessible Information System

DC

Dublin Core

DDC

Dewey Decimal Classification

DRM

Digital Rights Management

EDP 

Electronic Data Processing

esAL

Eastern Seaboard Association of Libraries

FOI

Freedom of Information

FOIA

Freedom of Information Act

FRELICO  

Free State Library and Information Consortium

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

GAELIC 

Gauteng and Environs Library Consortium

GCIS   

Government Communication and Information System

gif    

Graphics Interchange Format

GOGI

Garbage Out, Garbage In

HSRC   

Human Sciences Research Council

HTML

Hypertext Mark-up Language

HTTP

Hypertext Transmission protocol

ICT

Information and Communication Technology

ICTLIG

Information and Communications Technology in Libraries Interest Group

IFLA

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

ILL

Inter Library Lending

ILS

Integrated Library System

IP

Internet Protocol

ISBN

International Standard Book Number

ISO

International Organisation for Standardisation

ISP

International Standardised Profile

IT

Information Technology

JCM

Joint Catalogue of Monographs

jpg

also known jpeg - Joint Photographic Experts Group   

KISS

Keep It Simple Stupid

LC

Library of Congress

LCMARC

Library of Congress MARC

LCSH

Library of Congress Subject Heading

LIS

Library and Information Service/Science/Studies

LIASA     

Library and Information Association of South Africa

LiSLIG

LIASA Special Libraries Interest Group

LMS

Library Management Systems

MARC

Machine Readable Catalogue

NARS

National Archives and Records Service

NASA 

National Archives of South Africa

NCLIS

National Council for Library and Information Services

NEICON

National Electronic Information Consortium

NII

National Information Infrastructure

NITIF

National Information Technology Forum

NLSA 

National Library of South Africa

NRF

National Research Foundation

OA 

Open Access

OCLC

Online Computer Library Centre

OCLC-MARC

Online Computer Library Centre, MARC format

OLUC

Online Union Catalogue

OPAC

Online Public Access Catalogue

OPD

Official Publications Depository

OSI

Open Systems Interconnection

PACLIG

Public and Community Libraries Interest Group

PASA

Publishers’ Association of South Africa

PC 

Personal Computer

PDF

Portable Document Format

PDU

Protocol Data Units

PiT

Public Information Terminal

PMSA 

Print Media South Africa

png    

Portable Network Graphics

PSM

Public Service Media

SABIB

South African Bibliography

SABINET

South African Bibliographic and Information Network

SABS 

South African Bureau of Standards

SaCAT

South African National Catalogue

SAILIS

South African Institute for Library and Information Science

SALA

South African Library Association

SANB

South African National Bibliography

SANCB

South African National Council for the Blind

SANLIC

South African National Library Consortium

SANRIC

South African National Research Information Consortium

SAOUG

Southern African Online User Group

SEALS

South Eastern Alliance of Library Systems

SITA 

State Information Technology Agency

SLA

Special Libraries Association

SLIG

Special Libraries Interest Group

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

tiff    

Tagged Image File Format    

ULIS

Unification of Library and Information Stakeholders

UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

VPN 

Virtual Private Network

WISIS

World Summit on the Information Society

WLIC

World Library and Information Congress

www

World Wide Web

Z39.50

Standard protocol for information search and retrieve