Acronym
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Meaning
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3Rs, NY 3Rs
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NY 3Rs Association, Inc. comprises nine Research, Reference and Library Resources multi-type systems in NYS:
- CDLC Capital District Library Council, Albany
- CLRC Central NY Library Resources Council, Syracuse
- LILRC Long Island Library Resources Council, Bellport
- METRO Metropolitan NY Library Council, New York
- NNYLN Northern New York Library Network, Canton
- RRLC Rochester Regional Library Council, Rochester
- SCRLC South Central Regional Library Council, Ithaca
- SENYLRC Southeastern NY Library Resources Council, Highland
- WNYLRC Western NY Library Resources Council, Buffalo
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AASL
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American Association of School Librarians http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/aasl/index.cfm
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ACITS
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Advisory Committee on Information Technologies & Services (SCRLC)
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ACRL
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Association of College & Research Libraries www.acrl.org
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ALA
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American Library Association www.ala.org
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A/P, A/R
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Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable
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ARL
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Association of Research Libraries. www.arl.org/
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ASK US 24/7
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Virtual Reference Service offered statewide, coordinated by WNYLRC.
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BARC
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Bibliographic & Reference Center. Last resort interlibrary loan service for members, contracted out to Broome Community College.
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CCDA
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Coordinated Collection Development Aid - NYSL program providing a subsidy to support regional resource sharing and administered by the individual NY 3Rs councils for their member academic libraies.
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CMS
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Content Management System (software application used to create, edit, manage, search and publish content to one’s website).
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CONTENTdm™
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OCLC’s digitizing platform linking images with their metadata.
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DAC
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Digitizing Advisory Committee
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DLD
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Division of Library Development (the bureaucratic arm of the NYSL that oversees libraries).
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DNS
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Domain Name System - automatically converts the website names typed in Web browser address bar to the IP addresses of Web servers hosting those sites.
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E & T
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Education and Training (also CE, Continuing Education)
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EFTS
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Electronic Fund Transfer Service (some members use for health-related requests)
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E-RATE
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The Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), that provides discounts of up to 90 percent to help US schools and libraries obtain affordable telecommunications and Internet access.
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FS
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FirstSearch (OCLC databases)
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HLSP
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Hospital Library Services Program
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IDS
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Information Delivery Service (Rapid resource sharing Service developed at SUNY Geneseo and used by others)
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ILL
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Interlibrary Loan
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IT
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Information technology or technologies
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LA
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Library Assistants
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LibQUAL™
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A library evaluation tool offered by ARL.
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LRC
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Gale Literature Resource Center (database provided through RBDB funding)
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LSTA
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Library Services and Technology Act (Federal program of block grants to states – in NYS, funds used to support DLD and grants to systems).
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LWW
Also Ovid LWW
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Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins (full text database of clinical journals published by LWW and aggregated by Ovid. For hospital libraries by subscription through WALDO).
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| MAR |
Middle Atlantic Region of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine
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MIQ
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My Info Quest - a collaborative reference service that enables users worldwide to send questions via SMS text messages on their mobile phones and receive text responses in minutes.
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MISP
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Medical Information Services Program - NYSL program providing a subsidy for any library to obtain medical information from major national medical resource libraries.
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MLA
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Medical Library Association http://www.mlanet.org/
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My Continuing Education - a registration and education tracking program allowing librarians and library staff to register and pay online for SCRLC events and programs and to keep an online record of those events.
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NLM
NN/LM
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National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
National Network of Libraries of Medicine - regional network offices representing the NLM and offering services related to health care information.
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NOVEL
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New York Online Virtual Electronic Library - online resources available to New York State residents
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NYH
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New York Heritage - a digital collection project of the NY 3Rs Association, Inc. providing consolidated access to historical, scholarly, and cultural materials that reflect state history.
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NYLA
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New York Library Association www.nyla.org
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Nylink
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The regional network for OCLC offering OCLC and other services to libraries.
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NYSHEI
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New York State Higher Education Initiative http://www.nyshei.org/
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NYSL
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New York State Library (Research Library and DLD) http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/
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OAI
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Open Archives Initiative - enables access to web-based material through interoperable repositories for sharing/publishing/archiving of metadata; also means Open Application Interface.
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OCLC
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No longer stands for anything – it is an international bibliographic “utility” (union catalog), and offers many other services to libraries.
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OCR
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Optical Character Recognition - machine recognition of printed characters: fonts, typewriter and computer-printed characters.
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| PDA |
Patron-Drive Acquisition. Documents are acquired by the library in response to patrons' direct requests, rather than in response to librarians' view about what patrons are going to need.
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PLA
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Public Library Association www.pla.org
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PLS
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Public Library System(s)
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RBDB
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Regional Bibliographic Data Bases and Resource Sharing Program - NYSL program providing funds to support information technology projects that support regional resource sharing
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RS
RSAC
RSUG
RSS
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Resource sharing (usually interlibrary loan but can be broader)
Resource Sharing Advisory Committee
Resource Sharing User Group
Resource Sharing Subsidy
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SIG
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Special Interest Group
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SLA
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Special Libraries Association www.sla.org
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SLS
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BOCES School Library System(s)
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SMS
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Short Message Service—text messaging on cell phones and mobile devices
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SUNYLA
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SUNY Librarian’s Association www.sunyla.org
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ToH
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Tools of History—SCRLC’s digitization program
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UNYOC
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Upstate New York & Ontario Chapter of MLA http://unyoc.mlanet.org/
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VR
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Virtual reference
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WALDO
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Westchester Academic Library Directors Organization—handles group database purchases
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XC
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eXtensible Catalog – University of Rochester open source project
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