Resource discovery and sharing – glossary and useful links
Acronym/
Name
Abbreviation
Information / definition / links
Alternative
format
Also known as non-print material; usually a print item produced in a format
such as audio, Braille etc
Bee Aware
National initiative to promote interlending of alternative format material for
visually impaired people. The scheme began as a pilot in the North West and
is now available nationally. For more information see the NWLIP website.
http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/NWLInterlending/resources/beeaware/index.asp
BL
British Library
National Library of the UK which holds 150 million items with 3 million new
items added each year. The collections include manuscripts, maps, magazines,
prints and drawings, music scores and patents. The website contains a wealth
of information for librarians and for the public.
http://www.bl.uk/
BLDSC
British Library
Document
Supply Centre
Based at Boston Spa the BLDSC offers a wide range of services to support
interlending. The Directory of Library Codes and Customer Handbooks are
available as free downloads. Customer Support is available by phone 01937
546060 email customer-services@bl.uk or from the website
http://www.bl.uk/services/document/dsc.html
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BLDSS
British Library British Library services supporting remote document supply, resources and
information on the new system
Document
Supply Service
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/atyourdesk/docsupply/help/bldss/index.html
BLIC
British Library
Integrated
Catalogue
BNB
British National The British National Bibliography (BNB) records the publishing activity of the
United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland and includes selective coverage of
Bibliography
printed and electronic publications published since 1950, as well as information
on new titles up to 16 weeks ahead of their announced publication date
http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/atyourdesk/docsupply/productsservices/bnb/index.html
CILIP
Chartered
Institute of
Library and
Information
Professionals
CILIP is the professional body for librarians, information specialists and
knowledge managers. There are regional subgroups such as CILIP East
Midlands and specialist groups such as: the Academic Libraries Research
Group, the Health Libraries Group, Youth Libraries group and a Career
Development Group. www.cilip.org.uk
CILLA
Co-operative
of Indic
Language
CILLA is a subscription service which assists libraries to meet the needs of
their Indic communities by providing book acquisition and cataloguing services
for materials in Bengali, Gujerati, Punjabi, Tamil, Sanskrit, Hindi, and Urdu
languages. CILLA’s bibliographic records are added to OCLC’s WorldCat
The catalogue brings together a number of previously separate resources to
list over twelve million items in the British Library’s outstanding collections.
http://catalogue.bl.uk
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Library
Authorities
online catalogue.
http://www.oclc.org/cilla/default.htm
Conarls
Circle of
Officers of
National and
Regional
Library
Systems
The Conarls Working Group was formed on 1st April 2009 as part of the
amalgamation of The Combined Regions with Conarls, a co-operative of
national and regional library organisations. The Group continues the work of
Conarls, in particular: maintaining the Inter-Regional Unit (IRU) Cost
Scheme, sometimes known as the ‘Conarls rate’; providing guidance and
information about the Joint Fiction Reserves (JFRs); maintaining a database
of non-English language fiction collections; providing advocacy and
guidance on resource discovery, sharing and delivery matters.
On-line catalogue of major University and National Libraries in the UK and
Ireland
COPAC
http://www.copac.ac.uk
Culture Grid
DX
Culture Grid is an online service from the Collections Trust which joins and
opens up UK collections information from museums, galleries, libraries and
archives and has a growing range of images and other kinds of resources and
many new ways to connect with them. http://www.culturegrid.org.uk/
Transport provider used by libraries for inter-library loans: www.thedx.co.uk/
Other transport providers used include: DHL; Royal Mail; TNT
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EDI
EThOS
Electronic data Electronic data interchange (EDI) is the structured transmission of data
interchange
between organizations by electronic means. It is used to transfer electronic
documents or business data from one computer system to another computer
system, i.e. from one trading partner to another trading partner without human
intervention.
Encore
Catalogue of performance sets in UK libraries:
http://www.peri.nildram.co.uk/encore.htm
Electronic
theses online
The British Library online electronic theses (e-theses) service http://ethos.bl.uk/
EThOS provides searching access to over 250,000 theses, with many available
for download immediately. A personal registration is required the first time the
site is used
FABLibraries provides access to more than 149 UK public library catalogues in
a single search. It links to the library’s own website, shows availability and
shows library locations on a map and the distance.
FABLibraries
http://www.fablibraries.worldcat.org/
FIL
Forum For
Interlending
and
Information
Delivery
Organisation for interlending and document supply personnel. Established to
enable library and information workers to exchange ideas and views and also
to raise the profile of interlending and document supply nationally and
internationally.
http://www.forumforinterlending.org.uk/
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Findit!
A web-site for searching library collections throughout England, created by
INSPIRE. “Whether you are pursuing a hobby, studying or doing research,
findit! will lead you to the right library and the right information in your region
and beyond”
http://www.findit.org.uk/
IAML
IFLA
International
Association of
Music
Libraries,
Archives and
Documentation
Centres
Promotes international co-operation across 22 countries. Membership includes
major music collections, music and audio-visual librarians, music archivists and
documentation specialists, musicologists, music publishers and dealers.
International
Federation of
Library
Associations
and Institutions
IFLA is the leading international body representing the interests of library and
information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and
information profession, with 1700 members in 150 countries.
http://www.ifla.org/
Inter library loan
ILL
INSPIRE
http://www.iaml.info/iaml-uk-irl/
Information
Sharing
Partners In
Resources for
Inspire aims to facilitate improved public access to resources in academic,
national, specialist and public libraries across the UK. Its objectives are to
increase opportunities for adult learners to access learning resources in
libraries, and to develop the skills of library staff by raising awareness of
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Education
regional and national access agreements and library collections.
http://inspire-libraries.org.uk/
IRU
Inter-Regional
Unit
Inter-Regional Unit cost scheme, sometimes known as the ‘Conarls rate’ for
inter-library loans.
http://combinedregions.com/IRU_Cost_Scheme
ISO-ILL
JFR
An international standard for interlibrary loans. ISO ILL 10160/10161 is the
technical definition of messages as well as a set of rules on how to use those
messages between ISO ILL compliant systems
Joint Fiction
Reserve
The Joint Fiction Reserves exist to preserve and make available for public
library borrowers out-of-print works of fiction. Three exist in the UK and Ireland:
the Regional JFR, the London and South Eastern Regional Joint Fiction
Reserve (LASER JFR), and the Irish JFR. A similar but distinct Scottish Fiction
Reserve is also in operation.
http://combinedregions.com/Inter-Library_Loans/Locating_Fiction_in_English
LibrariesWest LibrariesWest is a consortium of five library services - Bath & North East
Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, Somerset, and South Gloucestershire.
http://www.librarieswest.org.uk/
LIEM
Libraries and
Information
Libraries and Information East Midlands is a membership organisation,
providing a strategic voice for library and information services across the East
Midlands. It has a long tradition of promoting partnership and co-operation
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East Midlands
across the library and information domain in the region; with partners in
museums and archives; nationally, with other library development agencies
and strategic bodies.
http://www.liem.org.uk/
LISN
Lincolnshire
Information
Services
Network
A group of Lincolnshire-based information providers/libraries who meet to
share staff expertise and resources between its members enabling access to a
more comprehensive and wide reaching network of information for the people
of Lincolnshire.
www.lisn.org.uk
LISU
Library and
Information
Statistics Unit
LISU publishes compilations of statistical information about and for libraries
and information services; reporting on the results of its statistical surveys and
research projects. LISU is based at Loughborough University
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dils/lisu/
LMS
Library Management System
London
Requests
M25
Consortium
NAG
A working arrangement including Bromley, Bexley, Lewisham and Croydon as
a sub-regional partnership for interlending.
A consortium of Higher Education Libraries within the M25 area
http://www.inform25.ac.uk/
National
NAG aims to create and encourage dialogue and improvements for all involved
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Acquisitions
Group
in the acquisition process. Its members include organisations in publishing,
bookselling and library systems as well as librarians in academic, public,
national, special and government institutions.
http://www.nag.org.uk/
Newsplan is a major national project to preserve, list and microfilm the historic
runs of local newspapers held in the regions and in the national library
collection. It is a co-operative programme involving public libraries, record
offices and museums, the universities and newspaper publishers, along with
the active support of the British Library Newspaper Library. You can search for
a newspaper title, for newspapers connected with a particular town or county,
or to find out what newspapers were published in a particular year in the East
Midlands and East Anglia region through the LIEM website.
http://www.liem.org.uk/NEWSPLAN/About_Newsplan
Newsplan
http://www.bl.uk/concord/linc/newsplan.html
NELF
Non-English
Language
Fiction
database
The Non-English language fiction collections database has been compiled to
help library staff quickly identify sources of material available for inter-lending
within and beyond their own regions. The database describes collections not
individual titles held. The database includes almost 1800 entries for collections
in 85 languages from Afrikaans to Yoruba.
http://combinedregions.com/Inter-Library_Loans/Locating_NonEnglish_Language_Fiction
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NWLIP
North West
Libraries
Interlending
Partnership
A service provided by Lancashire County Library and Information Service
(LCLIS) in association with the Society of Chief Librarians (SCL) North West.
The Partnership provides Inter Library Loan support services to libraries in the
north west of England.
http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/NWLInterlending/index.asp
Reading
Partners
Reading Partners is an initiative led by the Reading Agency, helping publishers
to reach readers through libraries' 4,000 branches and 10,000 reading groups.
This has led to author events, on-line reading groups and community reading
promotions. There is a network of regional contacts, the East Midlands contact
is Lynn Hodgkins.
http://readingagency.org.uk/adults/reading-partners/
RFID
Radiofrequency
identification
RFID is the use of an object (typically referred to as an RFID tag) applied to or
incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification
and tracking using radio waves. Some tags can be read from several meters
away and beyond the line of sight of the reader. RFID comprises interrogators
(also known as readers), and tags (also known as labels).
RLUK
Research
Libraries UK
A consortium of University and research Libraries, RLUK’s vision is that the UK
should have the best research library support in the world.
http://www.rluk.ac.uk/
RNIB
Royal National
Institute of
Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is the UK’s leading charity
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Blind people:
offering information, support and advice to almost two million people with sight
National
loss. Their National Library service is the largest specialist library in the UK for
Library service readers with sight loss.
http://www.rnib.org.uk/Pages/Home.aspx
SED
Secure
Electronic
Delivery
SINTO
Articles are delivered as encrypted Pdfs and are fully copyright compliant
http://www.bl.uk/sed
SINTO is a partnership of library and information services in the Yorkshire and
north Derbyshire region with the goal of improving services to users through
co-operation, training and planning. Membership is open to any organisation
providing an information service or with an interest in librarianship and
information management.
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/sinto/Index.html
SUNCAT
Serials Union
Catalogue for
the UK
Search tool across almost 50 UK libraries to help researchers and librarians
locate serials. www.suncat.ac.uk
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SWRLS
South Western SWRLS is a regional body which aims to promote co-operation between
libraries in the South West and the Channel Islands: www.swrls.org.uk
Regional
Library System
TCR
The Combined The Combined Regions (TCR) is an organisation set up to enable co-operation
Regions
between libraries across the British Isles, at both a strategic and an operational
level. For more than fifteen years, TCR has been working with its partners to
develop a national network for resource-sharing between libraries across
Britain and Ireland.
http://combinedregions.com/Home
TRA
The Reading
Agency
An innovative public/private sector partnership bringing together libraries and
the publishing industry. Partners include Bloomsbury, Faber, Mills and Boon,
Harper Collins, Penguin, Random House, and Time Warner.
www.readingagency.org.uk
UnityUK
UnityUK is the web-based resource-sharing and interlibrary loan service
provided by OCLC/PICA in partnership with The Combined Regions. It is the
UK’s first and only national network that brings together the union catalogues
to offer a single service.
http://www.oclc.org/uk/en/unityuk/
LIEM undertakes location searches using UUK on behalf of our member
organizations.
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WorldCat
WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services on the
Web, making it possible to search the collections of thousands of libraries
around the world.
http://www.worldcat.org/
Z39.50
An international standard for communication between computer systems which
enables the development and delivery of inter-linked library systems.
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