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
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- 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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Last updated 17 Novmeber 1998