LIBRARY-SPEAK CHEAT SHEET

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1 Cg 12/2005 LIBRARY-SPEAK CHEAT SHEET ACRL ALA ALCTS Alliance AMRC Ariel Association of College and American Libraries Association Association for Library Collections & Technical Services Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries American Music Research Center The core purpose of Association of College & is to lead academic and research librarians and libraries advancg learng and scholarship ; subgroup of ALA For more detailed formation Professional group for librarians ALCTS will provide its members, or ALA divisions and members, and library and formation community with leadership and a program for action on access to, and identification, acquisition, description, organization, preservation, dissemation of formation resources a dynamic, collaborative environment. See CARL I AMRC is a rare music repository dedicated to plorg rich tradition of American music. An electronic document transmission system for Interlibrary loan

2 ARL BCR BFA British Studies Room Cabet CARL CBIS Association of Bibliographic Center for Research Boulder Faculty Assembly [Center for British and Irish Studies] Colorado Association of Center for British and Irish Studies In CU, along with many or large library stitutions, is a member of ARL. Company hired to do a complete ventory of Norl Library (and some branches). BCR also provides professional classes for library workers at ir facilities down Denver. BCR is our regional OCLC organization. BFA is representative body of faculty on Boulder Campus to set academic policy and advise admistration on or policy See CBIS A libraries policy-makg group, made up of Dean of Libraries and his associate directors. A consortium of Colorado and Wyomg libraries who have pooled resources order to crease purchasg power, materials, and ideas ; new parent company is now TLC. Conference/party room on Fifth Floor of Norl Library. For more detailed formation

3 CDP Chook COG Collaborative Digitization Program (formerly Colorado Digitization Project) Chook Oversight Group Group that is puttg historical documents, photos, maps, etc. digital form for easier, computer access. The name of our onle bibliographic (library) catalogue. See also Millennium A group of Libraries staff and faculty that monitors Chook system general and specific modules of system; documents system-related problems; recommends CU-Boulder specific enhancements to system; hosts trag for system upgrades; serves as a soundg-board for standg Task Forces. For more detailed formation Council CPI Campus Prtg Initiative Group that advises Dean on policies; made up of department heads, plus dean and associate directors Campus pay for prtg program 3

4 CRL CTRC EAD ERM FRBR FSDC GPO Center for Colorado Technical Research Center Encoded Archival Description Electronic Resources Module Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records Faculty-Staff Development Committee Government Prtg Office An ternational not-for-profit consortium of colleges, universities, and libraries that makes available scholarly research resources to users everywhere. Offers document delivery and custom research services to busesses and professionals (as opposed to library patrons see ILL) A standard for encodg archival fdg aids usg Extensible Markup Language (XML). A component (module) of Millennium that will help us deal with ventory, use, and payment for electronic resources such as web journals and e-books. A new catalogg concept which seeks to replace current format of bibliographic records. A group comprised of reps from both library faculty and staff that put toger lectures of terest and professional advancement for any libraries staffer to attend. US government documents prtg house For more detailed formation Calendar of scheduled events: 4

5 GWLA IFLA III Greater Western Library Alliance International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Innovative Interfaces Inc. ILL Inter-Library Loan ILLiad INNOPAC INN-Reach ITS Information Technology Services Consortium of libraries throughout US West who pool resources to crease purchasg power of formation sources IFLA is leadg ternational body representg terests of library and formation services and ir users. It is global voice of library and formation profession. Company that produced Millennium; Chook runs on a III terface Go here to borrow materials not owned by CUB; CU also lend its materials to or libraries so that ir patrons may use m (largely a free service) Interlibrary Loan Resource Sharg management software (from OCLC) What III generically calls local catalogs that use its product Interface that runs Prospector; III s consortial borrowg system Entity responsible for campus computg services For more detailed formation

6 IUG LAB LC Innovative Users Group Library Advisory Board Library of Congress LibQual LibQual+ In The IUG was founded 1991 as an ternational organization of member libraries who use Innovative Interfaces, Inc. tegrated library software, INNOPAC. See also RMIUG The Board consists of 4 faculty reps, four staff reps, and Dean. Purpose is to gar formation, provide assistance, and offer advice to dean. Is not only repository for all published materials US, but also authority on its catalogg. LibQUAL is a suite of services that libraries use to solicit, track, understand, and act upon users opions of service quality For more detailed formation LITA Library and Information Technology Association Sub-group of ALA; LITA educates, serves, and reaches out to its members, or ALA members and divisions, and entire library and formation community through its publications, programs, and or activities designed to promote, develop, and aid implementation of library and formation technology. 6

7 LSA MARC Millennium NACO NASIG University Libraries Staff Association MAche-Readable Catalogg Name authority cooperative program North American Serials Interest Group forum for staff to discuss and process issues related to life workplace. All staff of University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries are automatically members. Standard for representation and communication of bibliographic and related formation machereadable form; often when we talk about MARC here, we mean MARC format for catalog HOLDINGS. The Chook catalog runs on this terface, and it is used by technical and public services staff to manipulate catalog--see III Catalogg term: Participants agree to follow a common set of standards and guideles when creatg or changg authority records order to mata tegrity of a large shared authority file. organization that promotes communication and sharg of ideas among all members of serials formation cha - anyone workg with or concerned about serial publications. For more detailed formation

8 NDLTD Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations International organization dedicated to promotg electronic analogues to se and dissertations netlibrary Electronic book vendor OCLC OPAC PASCAL PCC PDQ PPP Prospector Onle Computer Library Center Onle Public Access Catalogue Preservation and Access Service Center for Colorado Academic Libraries Program for Cooperative Catalogg Position Description Questionnaire Performance Pay Program Worldwide library cooperative catalogg group A generic term for any library s onle catalog ( our case, Chook ). This is orwise known as offsite storage ; it is a cooperative library materials storage facility with multiple partners, cludg Libraries. ternational [catalogg] cooperative effort aimed at pandg access to library collections by providg useful, timely, and cost-effective catalogg that meets mutually-accepted standards of libraries around world. Job description form (State of Colorado) Staff evaluation form (State of Colorado) Unified (cooperative) catalog of 23 libraries; sponsored by Alliance For more detailed formation

9 PS Public Services PWR RDA RLG RLIN RMIUG Staff Council TLC Program for Writg & Rhetoric Resource Desprition and Access Group Information Network Rocky Mounta Innovative User s Group Boulder Campus Staff Council The Library Corporation / Front les of service at Libraries: circulation, ter-library loan, reference, shelvg, etc. CU s freshman writg program; some of our librarians teach classes for this. For more detailed formation Successor to AACR2 RLG is a not-for-profit organization of over 150 research libraries, archives, museums, and or cultural memory stitutions. Provides solutions to challenges presented by formation access and management digital era. Defunct network-- See RLG Regional group of libraries who use III tegrated library software. See also IUG Elected reps for CUB staff Formerly called CARL Corp. Offers automation systems for libraries (such as templates for library catalogs, acquisitions modules, etc) 9

10 TS Technical Services TSDH ULR UROP VPN WebOPAC WorldCat Technical Services Department Heads University Libraries Report Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program Virtual Private Network Web Onle Public Access Catalogue In Department where behd--scenes work is done: catalogg, preservation, and acquisitions of library materials. Dept heads hold monthly meetgs with TS director to discuss issues with TS For more detailed formation The newsletter of Libraries University program designed to create research partnerships between faculty and undergraduate students. Recommended method for obtag remote access to library databases. A generic term for any library s catalog with a web terface ( our case, Chook on Web) World's largest bibliographic database, merged catalogs of thousands of OCLC member libraries For general formation on Libraries Departments, go to For a brief description of committees (cludg current members) with Libraries, go to 10