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1 | Acronym or Initialism | Explanation | Campus Summary | B | D | I | LA | M | R | SB | SC | SD | SF | Actively in use; y or n (inactive or not preferred) it | year checked | |
2 | AA | Administrative Assistant, sometimes Administrative Analyst | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
3 | AACR2 | Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
4 | AAL | Art and Architecture LIbrary | SD | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
5 | AAP | Academic Advanced Placement | LA | X | y | 2017 | ||||||||||
6 | AAP | Affirmative Action Plan | SD | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
7 | AAU | Association of American Universities | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
8 | ACCM | Advisory Committee on Cataloging and Metadata | LA | X | y | 2017 | ||||||||||
9 | ACG | All Campus Group | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | n | 2018 | |
10 | ACMI | Affordable Course Materials Initiative | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2017 | |
11 | ACMS | Academic Computing & Media Services | SD | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
12 | ACRL | Asoociation of College & Research Libraries (division of ALA) (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | Y | 2018 | |
13 | ACS | Access Services | SD | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
14 | ACT | Assessment for Change Team | LA | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
15 | AD | Active Directory | LA, SD | X | X | y | 2018 | |||||||||
16 | AdCon | Conference room in the Library Administrative suite in Geisel | SD | X | n | 2018 | ||||||||||
17 | Admin Team | Consists of senior library administrators | SD | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
18 | ADP | American Discography Project | SB | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
19 | AEC | Art Exhibition Catalog | SB, ? | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
20 | AFT | American Federation of Teachers (union representing librarians and more) (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
21 | AG | Administrative Group | SB | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
22 | AHS | Arts and Humanities Subject Pod (subject subset of collectors) | I | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
23 | AIR | Access and Information Resources team, part of the Strategic Planning Implementation team for 2017-19 | LA | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
24 | AIT Guide | Faculty Guide to Academic Information Technology | SD | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
25 | ALA | American Library Association (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
26 | ALCTS | Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (part of ALA) (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
27 | ALEPH | Integrated Library System (ILS) (precursor to Alma) (external to UC) | SB | X | n | 2018 | ||||||||||
28 | ALP | Academic Liasion Program | SD | X | y | |||||||||||
29 | AMP | Arts, Music, Powell (usually in reference to access services functions) | LA | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
30 | AMP-UE | Arts, Music, Powell - User Engagement | LA | X | y | 2019 | ||||||||||
31 | Annex | Off-campus storage facility for low-use materials | SD | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
32 | AOP | Access Operations Program | SD | X | y | |||||||||||
33 | API | Application Programming Interface (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
34 | APM | Academic Peronnel Manual: UC Personnel Policies for academic appointees. Includes procedures for appointment, advancement, and promotion | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | Y | 2018 | |
35 | Ariel | System used by ILL for online document delivery. (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
36 | ARK | Archival Resource Key (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
37 | ARL | Association of Research Libraries (external to UC) | B, D, I, LA, SB, SD | X | X | X | X | X | X | Y | 2018 | |||||
38 | ARMS | Acquisitions and Resource Management Services. Application with web interface to support submission & approval of new budget requests; restricted to those with budget submission and/or approval authority. | SB, SD | X | X | y? | 2018 | |||||||||
39 | ARPM | Academic Review Procedures Manual, Librarian Series: UCSD guidelines and procedural details for conducting appointment and performance reviews of UCSD librarians. | SD | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
40 | ARSC | Association for Recorded Sound Collections (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
41 | ArticlesPlus | Proquest Summon Discovery Software | LA | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
42 | ASAG | Administrative Services Advisory Group. Part of the Advisory Structure to the UC University Librarians (CoUL) http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/asag | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | Y | 2017 | |
43 | ASC | Advancing Scholarly Communication -- successor to Scholarly Communication Steering Committee | LA | X | y | 2022 | ||||||||||
44 | ASL | Ayala Science Library | I | X | Y | 2018 | ||||||||||
45 | ASLC | Academic Senate Library Committee (UCSD) | SD | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
46 | AT | Archivist Toolkit (Archival data management system, supporting archival repositories, accessioning & describing archival materials, establishing names & subjects associated with archival materials, location management for materials, and exporting EAD finding aids, MARCXML records, and METS, MODS, and Dublin Core records.) (external to UC) | I, LA, SD, ? | X | X | y | 2018 | |||||||||
47 | AUL | Associate or Assistant University Librarian | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2017 | |
48 | AWS | Amazon Web Services (important because we use these cloud services in digital collections, etc.) (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2017 | |
49 | BES | Business and Employee Servies | SD | X | y | |||||||||||
50 | BI | Bibliographic Instruction (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
51 | BibGroup | UC Bibliographer Groups.(DEFUNCT as of 11/1/2015). Continued by various CKGs | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | n | 2017 | |
52 | BIT | Behavioral Intervention Team | LA | X | n | 2018 | ||||||||||
53 | BLB | Biomedical Library Buildng (UCSD) | SD | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
54 | BLINK | UCSD portal for staff. Has a glossary feature | SD | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
55 | Blue Sheets | Library accounting form used for supplies, etc. (an actual piece of paper). (No longer in use: term for Dialog databases detailing features and content that used to be a physical, blue sheet of paper) | SD | 2018 | ||||||||||||
56 | BML | Biomedical Library (UCSD) | SD | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
57 | BSLW (BLW, BkS) | Back Stage Library Works | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
58 | BTAA | Big Ten Academic Alliance (relates to reciprocal privileges, though UC is not part of the 15 university alliance) (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
59 | C&E | Catering and Events | SD | X | y | |||||||||||
60 | CAAR | Committee on Appointments, Assignments and Reassignments (LAUC-SB) | SB | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
61 | CAG | Circulation Advisory Group (no longer in existence) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | n | 2018 | |
62 | CAIT | Committee on Academic Information Technology | SD | X | y? | 2018 | ||||||||||
63 | CAMCIG | Cataloging and Metadata Common Interest Group (not in use since 2013. Replaced by the Cataloging and Metadata CKG) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | n | 2018 | |
64 | CAP | Committee on Advancement and Promotion or Council on Academic Personnel is a faculty version of LAUC's CAPA | LA, I, SB, SD, ? | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |||||||
65 | CAPA | Committee on Appointments, Promotions and Advancements (LAUC-based committee) | B, LA, SC, SD | X | X | X | X | y | 2019 | |||||||
66 | CARL | California Academic and Research Libraries association, the California chapter of ACRL | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
67 | CARS | Content Acquisition and Resource Sharing | SD | X | y | |||||||||||
68 | CatalAcq | Cataloging and Acquisitions Services | SB | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
69 | CBS | Consortial Borrowing Software (also known as Consortial Borrowing System Software) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
70 | CC | Community college (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
71 | CCDT | Collections Council Digitization Team | LA | X | y | 2019 | ||||||||||
72 | CDC | Collection Development Committee | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | n | 2018 | |
73 | CDL | California Digital Library. Eleventh UC library. | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
74 | CDO | Collection Development Officer (usually an AUL) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2017 | |
75 | CEMA | California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives | SB | X | Y | 2018 | ||||||||||
76 | CFP | Call For Papers or Call for Proposals (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
77 | CFPRT | Center For Primary Research and Training (under Library Special Collections) | LA | X | y | 2019 | ||||||||||
78 | CFT | California Federation of Teachers (part of AFT), which represents most UC librarians (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
79 | CIC | Committee on Institutional Cooperation (now BTAA or Big Ten Academic Alliance). The academic consortium of the universities in the Big Ten Conference. | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | n | 2018 | |
80 | CIG | Common Interest Group (not in use since 2013. Related to CKG) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | n | 2018 | |
81 | Circuit | Combined catalog that includes a paging service for books at San Diego county's four largest academic libraries (CSUSM, SDSU, UCSD, USD, and the San Diego County Public Libraries) | SD | X | Y | 2018 | ||||||||||
82 | CJK | Chinese, Japanese, Korean - used for cataloging, acquisitions, etc. (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
83 | CKG | Common Knowledge Group, part of the advisory structure to the UC University Librarians. BibGroup and other groups reclassified as CKGs. http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/ckg | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2017 | |
84 | CLA | California Library Association (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
85 | CLICC | College Library Instructional Computing Commons | LA | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
86 | CLICS | Center for Library & Instructional Computing Services (closed 2011) | SD | X | n | 2018 | ||||||||||
87 | CLIIR | Committee on Library, Information, and Instructional Resources | SB | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
88 | CLIR | Council on Library and Information Resources (international in scope. UCs have hosted several successful CLIR fellows and written several successful CLIR grants) (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
89 | CLOCKSS | Controlled LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) - international effort. This is discussed, but UC uses other solutions. (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | n | 2018 | |
90 | CLS | Collection Licensing Subgroup, a subgroup of SAG3 and part of the Advisory Structure to the UC University Librarians. (DEFUNCT as of 11/1/2015. http://libraries.universityofcalifornia.edu/cls) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | n | 2017 | |
91 | Clusters | Overarching divisions of UCSD libraries (Administrative Services, Technology, Collections, & User Services) | SD | X | n | 2018 | ||||||||||
92 | CMS | Cataloging and Metadata Services | SB, ? | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
93 | CMS | Citation Management Software (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
94 | CMS | Course Management Software (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
95 | CMSC | Collection Management and Scholarly Communication | LA | X | n | 2019 | ||||||||||
96 | CNI | Coalition for Networked Information (gone to by AULs, ULs, and invited library leaders. Good for finding innovative ideas). (external to UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
97 | Content DM | Digital collection management system that stores images, data, metadata, and web page content for selected collections (external) | SD, ? | X | y | 2018 | ||||||||||
98 | CoUL | Council of University Librarians (Universty of California's University Librarians' group). Pronounced "cool" | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
99 | COVC | Council of Vice-Chancellors (UC) | All | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | X | y | 2018 | |
100 | CPNM | Current Periodicals, Newspapers, and Microforms located in the Social Sciences and Humanities Library, Geisel Library building | SD | X | 2018 |