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NLA 35th Annual Report 1994-95


Glossary


ABN             Australian Bibliographic Network                         
ACLIS           Australian Council of Libraries and Information Services                                                 
AGP             Australian Government Publications                       
AMI             Australasian Medical Index                               
APAIS           Australian Public Affairs Information Service            
APS             Australian Public Service                                
CAVAL           Cooperative Action by Victorian Academic Libraries       
CDNLAO          Conference of Directors of National Libraries: Asia and 
                Oceania                                                  
CD-ROM          Compact Disk-Read Only Memory                            
CJK             Chinese Japanese and Korean project to develop script-based 
                cataloguing database                        
Conspectus      Software for the recording and analysis of collection    
                management and acquisition planning data                 
CPSU            Community and Public Sector Union                        
CSIRO           Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research          
                Organisation                                             
DNC             Distributed National Collection                          
DYNIX           Library software supplier                                
EEO             Equal Employment Opportunity                             
FOI             Freedom of Information                                   
ILMS            Integrated Library Management System                     
INNOPAC         Software allowing Chinese, Japanese and Korean script    
                based cataloguing                                        
Internet        An international network of computer networks            
ISBN            International Standard Book Number                       
ISMN            International Standard Music Number                      
ISSN            International Standard Serial Number                     
Kiwinet         A New Zealand network of databases                       
MARC            Machine-readable Cataloguing                             
Mosaic          Software used for accessing information via the World    
                Wide Web on the Internet                                 
NBD             National Bibliographic Database                          
NDIS            National Document and Information Service                
NPO             National Preservation Office                             
NUC:D           National Union Catalogue of Library Materials for        
                People with Disabilities                                 
NUC:N           National Union Catalogue of Non-book Materials           
NUCOM           National Union Catalogue of Monographs                   
NUCOS           National Union Catalogue of Serials                      
NZBN            New Zealand Bibliographic Network                        
OHS             Occupational Health and Safety                           
Ozline          Network of databases on humanities, science and social   
                science subjects                                         
Supersearch     Information retrieval system for searching ABN           
                databases                                                
World Wide Web  Software developed by the European High Energy Physics   
                research community for distributing and accessing        
                information via the Internet                             

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