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Terms and Acronyms

•Glossary of Terms and Acronyms (from DPI)
This document, part of Trustee Essentials: a Handbook for Wisconsin Public Library Trustees, is available both as a Word and PDF document.  It contains many library-related terms and acronyms, both general, and specific to Wisconsin. 

•Wikipedia

For technology-related terms and acronyms, search Wikipedia. 

•Terms and acronyms related specifically to SCLS:

Ancestry Library
A database that provides access to genealogy information in more than 4,000 databases, including census data, passenger lists, the Social Security Death Index, and much more. 

AskAway
Service which, in conjunction with SCLS, member libraries, other libraries in Wisconsin, and a national consortium, provides residents with immediate answers from a librarian, online, through their computer, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.

BadgerCat
Wisconsin's WorldCat Group Catalog, which allows users to easily search various subsets of WorldCat, or the entire WorldCat database. 

BOCC
Books on Cassette Circuit. A circuit formed by a group of SCLS libraries to cooperatively purchase and rotate collections of audio books.

BSCC [LINK members only]

LINK Bibliographic Standards and Control Committee.  Formulates and recommends guidelines and procedures to maintain the integrity of the LINK database, and maintains a reporting system to identify input errors and problems. 

CODI
Customers of Dynix Inc. The nationally organized users group for Dynix products. (Dynix is the vendor used for LINKCat.)

EBSCO
One of the vendors which provides databases as part of the BadgerLink program.   EBSCO is also the vendor for NoveList. 

EBSCOHost

A database of thousands of magazines and journals, many in full-text, available to SCLS through the BadgerLink program.  NoveList is also part of EBSCOHost. 

Gale
A database vendor.  SCLS databases Literature Resource Center (LRC) and What do I Read Next (WDIRN) are Gale databases. 

HeritageQuest
A database which provides access to genealogy records and books, including census data, local histories, tax rolls, cemetery lists, military rosters, and more. 

InfoUSA
A database vendor.  SCLS database ReferenceUSA is supplied by InfoUSA. 

JTC
Joint Technology Committee. An SCLS subcommittee of PLAC and LINK.

LearningExpress Library
An online database containing practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help users prepared for academic or licensing tests.

Library Online
The system used by many SCLS libraries for workstation time and print management. 

LINK   [LINK members only]
Library Interchange NetworK. The name of the consortium of SCLS libraries which operates LINKcat, the shared automation system.

LINKcat
The LINK online catalog. It provides access to more than 2.3 million items held by LINK libraries.

LINK Express
A service provided by SCLS Delivery which provides remote check-out and delivery of LINK public library materials to agencies, businesses, and organizations within the SCLS geographic area, for a fee. 

LitFinder
A database, provided by the BadgerLINK program, used to locate poems, short stories, and other literature.

LRC
Literature Resource Center. A database which provides access to biographies, bibliographies and critical analyses of authors and their works.

MALC
The Multitype Advisory Library Committee serves as an advisory committee to the SCLS board on matters relating to multitype library cooperation.

netLibrary
An online collection of electronic books (eBooks), provided by the vendor OCLC.

NoveList
A database that provides reviews, annotations, book discussion guides, and assists in suggesting titles and authors similar to others a reader has enjoyed. 

OCLC
The vendor that supplies WorldCat, BadgerCat, netLibrary, and QuestionPoint.

OverDrive

A collection of Digital Audio books, supplied by a vendor of the same name. 

PLAC
Public Library Advisory Committee. Serves as an advisory committee to the SCLS Board of Trustees on issues and activities related to public libraries.

ProQuest
A vendor which provides a newspaper database as part of the BadgerLink program.  SCLS databases Ancestry Library and HeritageQuest are also ProQuest databases. 

QuestionPoint (QP)

The software used for the AskAway service, provided by OCLC. 

RefUSA Business (or ReferenceUSA Business)
A database which provides directory information for about 12 million U.S. businesses of all sizes. 

SCID
South Central In-Demand.  Material purchased with SCLS funds by Madison Public Library to fill multiple requests for best sellers or other in-demand materials.

SCILL
South Central ILL.  Material purchased with SCLS funds by Madison Public Library to fill interlibrary loan requests for materials which are not owned by the libraries participating in the shared automated system.

SCLS
South Central Library System. A seven-county library system headquartered in Madison. Its members include 52 public and over 300 libraries of other types within its boundaries. Services include interlibrary loan, backup reference, delivery, consulting, continuing education, a shared automation system, and public information services.

Serials Solutions

A service which provides lists and MARC records for online resources such as EBSCOHost and Proquest newspapers. 

TeachingBooks.net
A database of resources about books for children and young adults. 

UEPR [LINK members only]
LINK User Education and Public Relations Committee. Develops training and user interface materials for LINKcat.

WDIRN
What do I Read Next?  A readers' advisory database available through Gale. 

WorldCat
A union catalog database with information for libraries around the world, provided by OCLC. 

WPLC
Wisconsin Public Library Consortium. The WPLC pools the resources of WPLC member libraries throughout the state to cooperatively undertake projects that may otherwise be unavailable to single libraries and library systems.

For more information about SCLS terms and acronyms, contact Cheryl Becker.

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