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| ADA | Americans With Disabilities Act |
| ALA | American Library Association (Divisions include PLA, Public Libraries Association; SLA, Special Library Association and ALTA, American Library Trustee Association) |
| CRPLSA | Council of Regional Public Library System Administrators |
| BLOG | Weblog, a website with a series of postings. Blogs are easily written and published via a webform using a free or low cost software. Many libraries use a blog format as their website. |
| Dynix™ | former name of Integrated Library System (ILS) vendor |
| ELM | Electronic Library for Minnesota, an online virtual library that gives all Minnesota residents access to magazine, journal, and newspaper articles, eBooks (electronic books), and information from encyclopedias, almanacs, directories, and other resources. ELM is funded by the MINITEX Library Information Network; State Library Services; Minnesota Office of Higher Education; and federal LSTA funds under the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. ELM provides information on a vast array of topics, including consumer information, arts and humanities, current events, health, science, social science, politics, business, and more. |
| Horizon | The software used by SELCO Online Libraries, which includes automated library functions such as circulation, requests, cataloging, serials, notices, and reports. |
| ILL | Inter-Library Loan, a transaction in which library material or photocopies of material are loaned by one library to another outside its branch system for the use of a patron. |
| ILS | Integrated Library System, an automation system that enables library functions, such as circulation, requests, cataloging, serials, notices, and reports. |
| iPAC | Internet Public Access Catalog that displays the holdings for the SELCO Online Libraries on the Internet. |
| LC | Library of Congress |
| LSTA | Library Services and Technology Act. It is administered under the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), our federal agency. LSTA emphasizes library integration of technology and attention to underserved targeted populations with a collaborative approach to library services and allows for a wider range of public-serving applicant libraries. |
| MALF | Minnesota Association of Library Friends |
| MARC | Machine Readable Cataloging, a standard communication format for computer-based catalog records |
| MDE | Minnesota Department of Education, the department in Minnesota state government within which State Library Services resides. |
| MELSA | Metropolitan Library Service Agency, a federated regional library system (metro area) that produces our summer reading materials. |
| MEMO | Minnesota Educational Media Organization |
| MINITEX | The MINITEX Library Information Network is a program of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education with the mission of facilitating resource sharing among libraries and reducing the cost of providing access to information for residents throughout MN, ND and SD. |
| MLA | Minnesota Library Association (Divisions include MLTA, Minnesota Library Trustee & Advocates) |
| MLBPH | Minnesota Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped |
| MLS | Master of Library Science, the graduate degree from a library school or department |
| MnLINK | Minnesota Library Information Network, originally governed by the Library Planning Task Force, will link public, academic, school and government libraries throughout Minnesota. |
| MnSCU | Minnesota State Colleges and Universities |
| NCIP | NISO (National Information Standards Organization) Circulation Interchange Protocol. When NCIP becomes functional, it is expected to define the transactions needed to support circulation activities among independent library systems, such as hold or reserve, check-out, renew, and check-in. |
| OCLC | Online Computer Library Center Inc., a nonprofit library service and research organization that provides computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing, eContent, and preservation services to an international network of libraries. |
| RLBSS | Regional Library Basic System Support, a biennial budget appropriation provides operating funds to regional libraries |
| RLTA | Regional Library Telecommunication Access, a biennial budget appropriation underwriting a portion of telecommunication transmission costs |
| SELCO | Southeastern Libraries Cooperating, a federated regional library system, with headquarters in Rochester, MN. |
| SELS | Southeast Library System, a multi-county, multi-type library system, with headquarters in Rochester, MN |
| SirsiDynix | The library automation company from which SELCO gets Horizon, its Integrated Library System (ILS). |
| SSPIN | Support Staff and Paraprofessional Interest Section of MLA |
| State Library | This office (part of Minnesota Department of Education), under statute, is to give consultant service and administer state and federal grants for public libraries and multitype library cooperation. Former LDS and OPLIC. |
| WWW | World-Wide Web network of information servers |
| Z39.50 | U.S. standard for bibliographic information retrieval Defines a standard way for two computers to communicate and share information. |
