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# Acronym glossary (A - C)

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## A

AAAS
American Association for the Advancement of Science
http://www.aaas.org/

AACR
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules

AACR2
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed.

AALL
American Association of Law Libraries
http://www.aallnet.org/

ACCUL
Advisory Committee on College and University Libraries (OCLC)
http://www.oclc.org/membership/advisorycommittees/

ACE
Advanced Collections Environment
http://staff.oclc.org/~hickey/Ace/

ACIG
Authority Control in the Online Environment Interest Group
http://www.ala.org/ala/lita/litamembership/litaigs/authorityalcts/authoritycontrol.htm

ACM
Association for Computing Machinery
http://www.acm.org/

ACM SIGCHI
Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
http://www.acm.org/sigchi/

ACRL
Association of College and Research Libraries
http://www.ala.org/acrl/

ADAPT
Automated Document Analysis Processing and Tagging

ADL
Advanced Distributed Learning

AgNIC
Agriculture Network Information Center

AHEC
Area Health Education Center

ALA
American Library Association
http://www.ala.org/

ALCME
Advanced Library Collection Management Environment
http://alcme.oclc.org/

ALCTS
Association for Library Collections and Technical Services
http://www.ala.org/alcts/

ALISE
Association for Library and Information Science Education
http://www.alise.org/

ANSI
American National Standards Institute
http://www.ansi.org/

API
Application Programming Interface

ACRL
Association of College and Research Libraries
http://www.ala.org/acrl/

ARL
Association of Research Libraries
http://www.arl.org/

ARLIS
Art Libraries Society of North America
http://www.arlisna.org/

ARLIS/NA
Alaska Resources Library and Information Services/North America
http://www.arlis.org/

ASIDIC
Association of Information and Dissemination Centers
http://www.asidic.org/

ASIS
American Society for Information Science
(Changed name to American Society for Information Science and Technology in 2000.)
http://www.asis.org/

ASIST
American Society for Information Science and Technology
(Prior to 2000, known as American Society for Information Science.)
http://www.asis.org/

ASP
Application Service Provider

AUUG
Australian UNIX and Open Systems User Group
http://www.auug.org.au/

## B

BCR
Bibliographical Center for Research
http://www.bcr.org/

## C

CAPSCA
Union List of Periodicals for Central America

CARL
Canadian Association of Research Libraries

CDRS
Collaborative Digital Reference Service

CDS
Cooperative Discovery Services

CeDAR
Centre for Database Access Research
http://scom.hud.ac.uk/external/research/CeDAR/

Cedars
CURL Exemplars in Digital Archives
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/

CIC
Committee on Institutional Cooperation
http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/

CIP
Cataloging In Publication

CLIR
Council on Library and Information Resources
http://www.clir.org/

CNI
Coalition for Networked Information
http://www.cni.org/

CO-ASIST
Central Ohio Chapter American Society for Information Science and Technology
http://www.asis.org/Chapters/coasis/coasishm.htm

COLIS
Collaborative Online Learning and Information Services
http://www.colis.mq.edu.au/

CORC
Cooperative Online Resource Catalog
http://www.oclc.org/connexion/

CORE
Chemistry Online Retrieval Experiment
http://staff.oclc.org/oclc/research/projects/core/

CPSO
Cataloging Policy and Support Office
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/

CRL
Center for Research Libraries
http://www.crl.edu/

CVS
Concurrent Versions System
http://www.cvshome.org/

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