Abbrevation LIS

A&I: Abstracting and Indexing

AACR: Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules.

AACR2: Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, Second Edition

AALL: American Association of Law Libraries

AASL: American Association of School Librarians

ABAA: Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America

ACRL: Association of College & Research Libraries

AGRIS – Agricultural Information System

AHIP: Academy of Health Information Professionals

AICTE: All India Council for Technical Education

ALA: American Library Association

ALC: Americans for Libraries Council

ALCTS: Association for Library Collections and Technical Services.

ALISE: Association for Library and Information Science Education

ALOHA: Astronomy Librarians of Hawaii Association

ALP – Advancement for Librarianship

ANSI: American National Standards Institute

APA: American Psychological Association

API: Application Programming Interface.

APIN: Asia and Pacific Information Network.

ARL: Association of Research Libraries

ARLIS/ANZ: Arts Libraries Society of Australia and New Zealand

ARLIS/NA: Art Libraries Society of North America

ARLIS/UK & Ireland: Arts Libraries Society of the United Kingdom and Ireland

ARMA International: Association of Records Managers and Administrators International

ARPANET: Advanced Research Projects Agency Network.

ASCII: American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASIS: American Society for Information Science (and Technology)

ASLIB: Association for Information Management, previously, the Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureau.

ASTED: Association pour l'avancement des Sciences et TEchniques de la Documentation

AV: Audio-Visual

BALID: Bangladesh Association of Librarians, Information Scientists and Documentalists

BCI: Bar Council of India

BFM: Bibliographic File Maintenence

BI: Bibliographic Instruction

BIBCO: the monographic BIBliographic record COmponent of the Program for Cooperative

BIP: Books In Print

BL: British Library

BLISc: Bachelor of Library and Information Science

BnF: Bibliothèque nationale de France

BONET – Bombay Library Network

BPL: Boston Public Library

CAHSL: Connecticut Association of Health Sciences Librarians

CALIBER: Convention on Automation of LIBraries in Education and Research institutions.

CALIBNET: Calcutta Network

CAPS: Content, Abstract and Photocopy Service (INSDOC)

CAS: Current Awareness Service

CCF: Common Communication Format

CDA: Communications Decency Act

CDC: Curriculum Development Committee

CD-R: Compact Disc-Recordable

CD-ROM: Compact Disc Read-Only Memory

CD-RW: Compact Disc ReWritable

CDS/ISIS: Computerised Documentation Services Intregated Set of Information System

CDS: Cataloging Distribution Service (Library of Congress)

CEP: Continuing Education Programme

CILIP: Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.

CIP: Cataloging-In-Publication

CLA: Canadian Library Association

CLIR: Council on Library & Information Resources

CLISc: Certificate Course in Library and Information Science

CLS: Certificate in Library Science

CMS: Content Management System.

CNI: Coalition for Networked Information

COMLA: Common Welth Library Association

CONSER: Cooperative ONline SERials (PCC component)

CPSO: Cataloging Policy and Support Office (Library of Congress)

CRG – Classification Research Group

CSIR: Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

CURL: Consortium of University Research Libraries

CV: Curriculum Vitae

DCM Z1: Descriptive Cataloging Manual Z1 ("Yellow Pages")

DCMI: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative.

DDB: die Deutsche Bibliothek (German National Library)

DDC: Dewey Decimal Classification

DDS: Document Delivery Service

DEC: Distance Education Council

DELNET: DEveloping Library NETwork.

DESIDOC: Defense Scientific Information and Documentation Center

DEVSIS – Development Science Information System

DIRKS: Design and Implementation of Recordkeeping Systems

DLF: Digital Library Federation.

DLIS: Department of Library and Information Science

DLSc: Diploma in Library Science

DMCA: Digital Millennium Copyright Act

DNS: Domain Naming System.

DOI: Digital Object Identifier

Dr. S. R. Ranganathan: Dr. Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan.

DRC: Data Referral Centra

DRM: Digital Rights Management

DRTC: Documentation Research and Training Centre.

DVD: Digital Video Disc

ENVIS: Environment Information System

ERIC: Educational Resources Information Clearinghouse

FDLP: Federal Depository Library Program

FRAD: Functional Requirements for Authority Data.

FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records.

FSF: Free Software Foundation.

FTP: File Transfer Protocol.

GIF: Graphics Interchange Format

GIS: Geographic Information Systems

GPO: Government Printing Office

GPRS: General packet radio service.

GSDL: Green Stone Digital Library software.

GUI: Graphical User Interface

HR: Human Resources

HTML: Hyper Text Mark Up Language.

HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol

HTTPS: HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure

IALL: International Association of Law Libraries

IAMSLIC: International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and

IASLIC: Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centers

IATLIS: Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science.

IB: Information Behavior

ICSSR: Indian Council of Social Science Research

ICT: Information and Communication Technology

IE: Internet Explorer

IFLA: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

III: Innovative Interfaces, Incorporated

IIT: Indian Institute of Technology

ILA: Indian Library Association

ILL: Inter Library Loan

IMLS: Institute for Museum and Library Services

INDEST: Indian National Digital library in Engineering Sciences and Technology

INFOLAC: Information Society program for Latin America and The Caribbean

INFLIBNET: INFormation and LIBrary NETwork

INSDOC: Indian National Scientific Documentation Center

IP: Internet Protocol.

ISBD: International Standard Bibliographic Description

ISBN: International Standard Book Number

ISC: Information for Social Change (Advocacy group : United Kingdom)

ISO: International Organization for Standardization.

ISP: Internet Service Provider

ISSN: International Standard Serial Number

IT: Information Technology

JAKE: Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment

JANET: Joint Academic NETwork.

JOCLAI: Joint Council of Library Associations of India

JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group

JSTOR: Journal STORage

KWIC: KeyWord In Context

KWOC: KeyWord Out of Context

LAB: Library Association of Bangladesh

LAN: Local Area Network

LC: Library of Congress

LCC: Library of Congress Classification

LCCN: Library of Congress Control Number

LCRI: Library of Congress Rule Interpretation(s)

LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings.

LFF: Librarians For Fairnesss

LIS: Library and Information Science

LISA: Library and Information Science Abstracts

LISA: Library and Information Services in Astronomy

LITA: Library and Information Technology Association

LOCKSS: Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe

LTTE: Letter To The Editor

MALI: Medical Library Association of India.

MALS: Master of Arts, Librarianship

MAN: Metropolitan Area Network.

MARC 21 Machine Readable Catalogue 21 Century

MARC: MAchine Readable Cataloging

MCI: Medical Council of India

MFHD: MARC Format for Holdings Data

MIS: Master of Information Science

MLA: Modern Language Association

MLA: Modern Library Association

MLA: Music Library Association

MLIS: Master of Library and Information Science

MLS: Master of Library Science

MSLIS: Master of Science in Library and Information Science

NAAC: National Assessment and Accreditation Council

NACO: the Name Authority COmponent of the PCC

NAMTC: National Association of Media & Technology Centers

NAR: Name Authority Record

NASIG: North American Serials Interest Group

NASSDOC: National Social Science Documentation Center

NCLIS: National Commission on Libraries and Information Science

NCP: Network Control Protocol.

NCTE: National Council for Teachers Education

ND: No Date

NISC: National Information Services Corporation

NISCAIR: National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources.

NISO: National Information Standards Organization

NLA: Nevada Library Association

NN/LM: National Network of Libraries of Medicine

NSF: National Science Foundation.

NTIS: National Technical Information Service

NUC National Union Catalog

NYPL: New York Public Library

OAI: Open Archives Initiative.

OAI-PMH: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting.

OCLC: Online Computer Library Centre.

ODLIS: Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science

OED: Oxford English Dictionary

OP: Out of Print

OPAC: Online Public Access Catalogue

OS: Out of Stock

PC: Personal Computer

PCC: Program for Cooperative Cataloging (Library of Congress)

PDF: Portable Document Format

PGDIT: Post Graduate Diploma in Information Technology

PGDLAN: Post Graduate Diploma in Library Automation and Networking

PLA: Pakistan Library Association

PLANNER: Promotion of Library Automation and Networking in North Eastern Region.

PLG: Progressive Librarians Guild (Advocacy group : chiefly United States)

PMOLIB: Prime Minister's Office Library

PO: Purchase Order

PPL: Peace Palace Library

RA: Readers' Advisory

RAK: Regeln für Alphabetische Katalogisierung (English: the rules of alphabetical cataloging)

RDA: Resource Description and Access.

RDF: Resource Description Framework

RFID: Radio Frequency IDentification

RFK: Regeln für die Formalkatalogisierung (English: Rules for descriptive cataloging)

RFP: Request For Proposal

RIM: Records and Information Management

RIOTA: Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act

RLG: Research Libraries Group

RRRLF: Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation

RSS: Multiple, depending on the version

RSWK: Regeln für den Schlagwortkatalog [English: Rules on the subject catalog (subject headings)]

RUSA: Reference and Users Services Association

SAA: Society of American Archivists

SACO: the Subject Authority COmponent of the PCC

SCCTP: Serial Cataloging Cooperative Training Program

SCM: Subject Cataloging Manual (Library of Congress)

SDI: Selective Dissemination of Information

SIC code: Standard Industrial Classification code

SIS: Society for Information Science.

SLA: Special Libraries Association.

SLSH: Sears List of Subject Headings

SMS reference: Short Message Service reference

SPARC: Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition

SRRT: Social Responsibilities Round Table (American Library Association)

SRU: Search / Retrieval via URL.

SSL: Secure sockets layer

SuDoc: Superintendent of Documents

TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol.

TOC: Table Of Contents

TP: Title page.

UBC: Universal Bibliographic Control.

UDC: Universal Decimal Classification

UGC: University Grants Commission

UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

UNAL: UNESCO Network for Associated Library.

UNIMARC: Universal Machine Readable Catalogue

URL: Uniform Resource Locator.

USA PATRIOT Act: Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools

USB: Universal Serial Bus

VHS: Video Home System

VLOG: Video (web-)log.

VPN: Virtual Private Network

WAN: Wide Area Network.

WIPO: World Intellectual Property Organization.

WLIC: World Library and Information Congress

WWW: World Wide Web.