Acronyms, initialisms and abbreviations used in this report| AACR | Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules |
| ABN | Australian Bibliographic Network |
| ADP | Automatic Data Processing |
| ARL | Association of Research Libraries (USA) |
| AV | Audio Visual |
| BL | British Library |
| BLDSC | British Library Document Supply Centre |
| BLOPAC | British Library Online Public Access Catalogue |
| BLRDD | British Library Research and Development Department |
| BLRIC | British Library Research and Innovation Centre |
| CAG | Cooperative Automation Group |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disk - Read Only Memory |
| CEC | Commission of the European Communities |
| CERL | Consortium of European Research Libraries |
| CHEST | Combined Higher Education Software Team |
| CIPFA | Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy |
| CLAA | Cathedral Libraries and Archives Association |
| CLR | Council on Library Resources (USA) |
| CNI | Coalition for Networked Information (USA) |
| COM | Computer Output Microfilm |
| COPAC | CURL Online Public Access Catalogue |
| CURL | Consortium of University Research Libraries |
| DENI | Department of Education for Northern Ireland |
| DNH | Department of National Heritage |
| EARL | Electronic Access to Resources in Libraries |
| EC | European Commission |
| ESTC | English Short Title Catalogue |
| FIGIT | Follett Implementation Group on Information Technology |
| HEFCs | Higher Education Funding Councils |
| HEIs | Higher Education Institutions |
| IFLA | International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions |
| ILL | Inter Library Lending |
| IMA | Information Management Associates |
| ISBN | International Standard Book Number |
| IT | Information Technology |
| JANET | Joint Academic Network |
| JISC | Joint Information Systems Committee |
| LA | Library Association |
| LASER | London and South Eastern Region |
| LCSH | Library of Congress Subject Headings |
| LIBER | Ligue des bibliotheques Europeennes de Recherche |
| LIC | Library and Information Commission |
| LINC | Library and Information Cooperation Council |
| LIS-SCONUL | The electronic mailing list for SCONUL |
| LITC | Library and Information Technology Centre |
| MARC | Machine Readable Cataloguing |
| NFF | Non Formula Funding |
| NISS | National Information Services and Systems |
| NLA | National Library of Australia |
| OCLC | Online Computer Library Center |
| OPAC | Online Public Access Catalogue |
| PC | Personal Computer |
| RCC | Retrospective Catalogue Conversion |
| RLIN | Research Libraries Network |
| SCONUL | Standing Conference on National and University Libraries |
| STC | Short Title Catalogue |
| UKLDS | United Kingdom Library Data System |
| UKOLN | United Kingdom Office for Library and Information Networking |
| UMI | University Microfilms International |
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