South Asia: Renovating the National Collection

A Guide to Selected Indian and Bangladesh Library and Information Resources


Acronyms

AACR2
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. Second Edition

BANSDOC
Bangladesh National Scientific & Technical Documentation Centre

BANSLINK
Bangladesh National Scientific and Library Information Network.

BARC
Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council

BIDS
Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies

CAPS
Contents, Abstracting and Photocopying Service

CD-ROM
Compact Disk Read Only Memory. Usually refers to database products mounted on the CD-ROM platform

CSL
Central Secretariat Library

DDC
Dewey Decimal Classification

FTP
File Transfer Protocol

MARC
Machine Readable Cataloguing

GIST
Graphic and Intelligence based Script Technology is used for the processing of Indian language scripts.

IFLA
International Federation of Library Associations

IGNCA
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts

IGNOU
Indira Gandhi National Open University

IGO
International Government Organisational

INSDOC
Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre

ISA
Indian Science Abstracts

ISCOMM
INSDOC Serials Contents on Multi-Media

LPAC
Library Programme Advisory Committee of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute

LYBSys
Widely used library software developed in India

NAI
National Archives of India

NCAER
National Council for Applied Economic Research

NGO
Non Government Organisation

NUCSS
National Union Catalogue of Scientific Serials in India from 1994 [on CD-ROM

R&D
Research and Development

RENNIC
Research and Education Network of National Informatics Centre

SAARC
South Asian Agriculture Research Council

SAIC
South Asian Agricultural Information Centre

SICI
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute

UDC

UN
United Nations

UNDP
United Nations Development Program

UNESCO
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation

WWW
World Wide Web


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