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Bobst TSD department glossary  Page last updated: April, 2004  » Cataloging » contacts » location table » Acquisitions » contacts » Serials » NYU Libraries » GEAC ADVANCE » OCLC » RLIN » The MARC format » MARC in XML » Staff Directory » Staff Resources, A-Z Search the TSD web pages: Technical Services Department GLOSSARY INTRODUCTIONInevitably, when a group of people work together on complex tasksthey develop their own private language. New words are coined andfamiliar words take on new meanings. In technical services work wehave inherited a rich vocabulary from our predecessors, but we haveadded many new terms as we moved to automated processing. Tofacilitate training new staff and improve communication betweenstaff and units, the Technical Services Department unit heads andsupervisors have prepared a glossary of technical services terms andjargon. They based this glossary on one created for the CornellUniversity Libraries and borrowed terms and definitions from theAnglo-American cataloguing rules and other sources. They have addedmany NYU-specific terms and have edited definitions to reflect localusage.This glossary is meant to be a work-in-progess. As necessary, wewill add new terms and revise definitions. TSD staff are encouragedto suggest additions and clarification to this document.Thanks go to Sherman Clarke, Lori El-Hewie, Susan Hayes, BethJacoby, Peter Kingsley, Breon Krug and Marie Spina for theircontributions and special thanks to Sherman Clarke for coordinatingthis effort and editing the document. Arno Kastner--------------------------------------------------------------------NOTE: Glossary entries are generally spelled out with across-reference from the initialism or acronym. Some terms used indefinitions are themselves also in the glossary. Terms which areused in a general sense are generally not included.A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - JK - L - M - N - O - PQ - R - S - T - U - V - W - XYZAAACR: Anglo-American cataloguing rules.General rules for descriptive cataloging and access points.AACR2: The second edition of AACR.AACR2R: The second edition, 1988 revision, ofAACR.Abstract: A brief summary of a book, pamphlet orperiodical article.Academic Computing Facility: The central serviceorganization at NYU responsible for computer and network support toteaching faculty, students, and staff. Administrative support isprovided by the University Computer Center.Academic year: Begins with the fall term andends with graduation in May or June.Access: (n.) In general, the availability ofinformation; ability or privilege to obtain wanted materials such asbooks. Direct access allows one to go directly to the stacks forbooks or periodicals. (v.) To look up, to consult.Account number: A 10-digit number assigned byuniversity financial offices to money earmarked for specific uses.For example, the account number for library books is 2-314-230-300.Do not confuse with Fund Code.Accounts Payable: The university departmentresponsible for processing all invoices for payment. All invoices tobe paid from the library budget are submitted to this office for theissuance of checks.ACF: SEE Academic Computing Facility.Acquisitions Unit: The administrative unit inBobst in charge of acquiring books, serials, microforms, videos,etc., and keeping necessary business records. Part of TechnicalServices Department.Added copy: An additional item intentionallyacquired/cataloged which matches the bibliographic record andholdings location of an existing item in BobCat. Distinct from addedlocation or added volume.Added entry: SEE Entry.Added location: An additional item added to abibliographic record for a new location (i.e. a location not yetrepresented in the holdings for that edition.Added volume: An additional item added to abibliographic record for a multi-part work.Advance: The automated system used by NYULibraries to organize and control its library materials, bothtechnical services and public access. It is a product of GeacComputers, Inc. and provides control of the history of any book orserial purchase from ordering to appearance in BobCat and continuingwith circulation status and record maintenance.AFC: SEE Avery Fisher Center.ALA: SEE American Library Association.American Library Association: The largestnational professional library organization. Publishes professionaljournals and other publications. Holds two conferences per year:"Annual" in June or July; "Midwinter" in January or February.Analytic: A cataloging record for a part of anitem for which a comprehensive entry is also made.Analyzed series: Series for which each volumereceives its own fully-cataloged record; volumes in the series areclassified together.Anglo-American Authority File: SEE NameAuthority File.Anglo-American cataloguing rules: SEE AACR.Annotation: Criticism and/or commentary. Anannotated bibliography contains descriptive notes about books orarticles listed. (e.g. Library journal contains annotationsin the form of reviews.)Annual: Serial published with annualchronological designation; may or may not actually be published oncea year. SEE ALSO Serial."Annual Conference" (i.e. Annual Conference ofAmerican Library Association): SEE American Library Association.Appointment, Reappointment and Promotion Panel:A standing committee of the Division of Libraries; the members areelected from all four faculty ranks.Approval plan: Method of acquiring librarymaterials, usually books. The vendor supplies books based ongeneral instructions given from the library. The instructions, orprofile, specify the subjects and non-subject parameters (price,country of origin, kinds of publications, readership level, etc.)the library wants to receive. The library keeps the books of whichit approves, and returns to the vendor any it disapproves of for anyreason.Archives: A repository for papers. The principalcollections at NYU include those related to the university, to laborunions, etc. Located on the 10th floor of Bobst, sharing space withWagner Archives and Tamiment Library. The University Archives is thedesignated repository for the official records of New YorkUniversity.Audio-visual materials: Non-book materials suchas filmstrips, recordings, films, video-tape, etc.Author: The person chiefly responsible for thecreation of the intellectual or artistic content of a work.Authority record: A record which gives thepreferred form of a heading (e.g. personal name, corporate name,subject heading, uniform title) and includes references asappropriate. Geac Advance creates simple authority records as partof its database structure; such system-created records reflect thebibliographic heading and do not include references.Authority work: The process of determining theform of a name, title, or subject concept that will be used as aheading on a bibliographic record; of determining references neededto that heading; and of determining relationships of the heading toother headings. (Wynar, 1992)AV materials: SEE Audio-visual materials.Avery Fisher Center: The major repository forspoken word recordings, videorecordings, films, musical soundrecordings, and other audio-visual materials. Located on the secondfloor of Bobst. Materials are ordered and processed by the TechnicalServices Department. Also includes and services the equipment forviewing and/or listening to the materials.Breturn to top of glossaryB & T: SEE Baker & Taylor.Baker & Taylor: The principal domestic approvalvendor for materials in Bobst (up to early 1996)Batch mode: Method of processing by computer alarge number of items where the transactions are collected for inputand then processed by the computer as a single unit. RLG's Diogenesservice is done in batch mode: NYU's in-processing recordsare run against the RLIN database in one batch by machine as opposedto staff manually searching each title one-by-one against the RLINdatabase.Bibliographer: Coordinator of selectionactivities for broad subject areas (humanities, social sciences,science). SEE ALSO Collection development; Collection ServicesDepartment; Selector.Bibliographic entity: An instance of recordedknowledge. A bibliographic entity has two components: thephysical, called an item, and the intellectual, called a work.Bibliographic MARC Cataloguing (BMC): The namein the Advance Cataloguing Module for the menu option giving staffaccess to the main database. Records may be created in the Workfilebut full records for public display and maintenance must be in theBMC.Bibliographic record: A record for abibliographic entity, which may be in any format (printed text,computer file, videorecording, musical score, etc.). Used todistinguish such records from item records and authority records.Bibliographic utilities: Online processingcenters that provide a shared database of cataloging records createdby member libraries. The databases are used for copy cataloging,interlibrary loan, selection and bibliographic verification. NYU hasaccess to two utilities: OCLC and RLIN.Bindery: An operation, commercial or in-house,which functions to put hard cover bindings on paperback books andserial publications, replace hard covers for volumes worn out fromuse or damage, repair damaged volumes, and more. Bobst Library hasan in-house bindery operation in the Collection Services Unit whichrepairs damaged volumes and sends books to a commercial binder,Ocker and Trapp. The Acquisitions Unit sends unbound serials toOcker and Trapp for binding.BIP: SEE Books in print.Blanket order: An order placed with a publisherto supply automatically all publications from that publisher.Sometimes limited by subject. (e.g. NYU Press for all publicationcept law; National League for Nursing for all publications; ALAfor many publications according to a profile).BMC: SEE Bibliographic MARC CataloguingBobCat: The online catalog for NYU Libraries andthe Consortium libraries. Includes all cataloging done since 1981,as well as converted records for most of the collection catalogedbefore 1981.Bobst Library: The main library for NYU.Includes Fales Library (special collections); Avery Fisher Center(videos, sound recordings, electronic materials, etc.); TamimentLibrary (labor history); Wagner Labor Archives. NYU Press anduniversity administration offices are also located in the librarybuilding.Books in print: the author and titleindexes to the Publishers' trade list annual. Listings bysubject are found in Subject guide to books in print. Alsoavailable in electronic form.Browser (Internet): A software program enablinga user to search for resources on the Internet.Budget: A plan for the use of money availableduring a fiscal year. The Director of Collection Services, incollaboration with the library dean and fiscal officer, develop abudget with money allocated to Bobst for the materials budget. Thematerials budget (used to buy books, serials, videos, etc. for thelibrary collection) is divided among books, serials, and binding.The books and serials budgets are further subdivided into subjectcategories, from which each selector is given an amount of moneywith which to choose publications to buy for the collection.BWC: SEE Workfile.Creturn to top of glossaryC-fly: SEE Circulation on the fly.Cabinet: Policy-making group composed of theAssociate Dean and the directors of the administrative units of theNYU Division of Libraries.Call number: The symbols used to indicate thelocation of books on the shelves. Most call numbers in Bobst Libraryare in the Library of Congress classification.Card catalog: Cabinets of card drawers locatedon the first floor of Bobst Library which were the main record ofcataloging for holdings of NYU Libraries. Now contains only thosecards which are not predicted to be online in BobCat.Cassette: A container for tape or film, e.g.audio cassette, computer magnetic cassette, videocassette.Cat sep: SEE Cataloged separately.Cataloged separately: A series in which eachvolume has its own cataloging record and its own call number.Cataloging in Publication Project: Cooperativeproject between the Library of Congress and American publishers, thepurpose being to supply advance LC cataloging information which isthen printed on the verso of the title page. CIP cataloging copy isusually done pre-publication and all the information is subject tochange upon receipt of the item.Cataloging manual: also known as "the red book";includes policy statements and procedures. It is continually updatedand is expected to be on the NYU library homepage.CBI: SEE Cumulative book index.Center for Research Libraries: Cooperativeorganization of research institutions where members may depositlittle-used publications. The Center also acquires some esotericmaterials to lend to constituents. Located in Chicago.Central processing unit (CPU): The electronicpart of a computer which allows it to run programs by itself. Aterminal without a CPU is only capable of running the program towhich it is devoted.CIP Project: SEE Cataloging in PublicationProject.Circ on the fly: SEE Circulation on the fly.Circulation: Activity centered in AccessDepartment and reserve desks. 1. The lending of books (or othermaterials) to borrowers and the keeping of records of loans. 2. Thetotal number of volumes lent during a given period of use outsidethe library.Circulation on the fly (COTF; C-fly): Very briefrecords created by Access Services staff at the point ofcirculation; materials are allowed to circulate without a fullbibliographic record being attached to the circulation record. Anon-going cataloging project is the replacement of COTF records withfully-cataloged records.Citation: A note of reference to a work fromwhich a passage is quoted, or to some source of authority for astatement.Claim: A request sent to a supplier orpublisher to send an item which was ordered but has not yet beenreceived even after a sufficient waiting period.Classed, classified, classification: Thearrangement of materials by subject, number, size or any specifiedcriteria for locating material in any particular order. LCclassification is by subject. Some non-print materials are arrangedby consecutive number. Dissertations are all arranged in LD3907. SEEALSO Library of Congress classification and cataloging.Closed stacks: SEE Stacks.Code 100: Personnel coding for administrativestaff, non-faculty.Collate: Bring together or assemble. Also, toexamine a book or newspaper page by page to see that the pages,plates, etc. are in proper order and complete.Collation: In cataloging, the physicaldescription of a bibliographic item (book, tape, film) whichgenerally appears after the imprint.Collection development: The process of examiningthe academic and research needs, and selecting materials in supportof those needs, for both faculty and students.Collection Services Department: The departmentwithin the library responsible for selection of materials. Includesselectors, bibliographers, preservation staff, and access services.Comes with subscription: A serial title whichis received as part of a subscription to another title. The "comeswith" serial is received on its own bibliographic record, butpayment information is posted on the main title (parent) orderrecord.Command: (computers) A signal to initiate apredetermined type of computer operation.Compiler: 1. One who produces a collection byselecting and putting together matter from the works of variouspersons or bodies. 2. One who selects and puts together in onepublication matter from the works of one person or body. SEE ALSOEditor.Computer: An electronic instrument which cansolve problems by accepting data, performing various operations withthe data, and supplying results. May be a personal computer orterminal, may be connected to a network, may provide access to theInternet.Computer file: A body of encoded information(either data or program, or both) that can be read only by acomputer.CONSER (CONversion of SERials Project): Acooperative effort to build a core data base of bibliographicinformation on serial titles to be available for use on theinternational, national, regional and local levels.Consortia (consortium): Formal organizations oftwo or more institutions which seek to attain specific goals throughcooperation. (e.g. RLG, METRO)"The Consortium": Officially the ResearchLibrary Association of South Manhattan. Membership includes NYU,Cooper Union, New School for Social Research (including ParsonsSchool of Design and Mannes College of Music), etc. cataloging forCooper, New School, and Parsons is done in TSD; acquisitions is alsodone for some New School materials. Records for these institutionsappear in BobCat.Continuation: SEE Standing order.Conventional title: SEE Uniform title.Conversion of Serials Project: SEE CONSER.Cooper Union: One of the academic institutionsin the Consortium. Located around Astor Place."Copy cataloguing": In Advance, creates a newrecord based on an existing record. Similar to "new" command in OCLCor "cre *" in RLIN.Copyright: [ c in a circle] The exclusiverights to publication, production or sale of a literary, dramatic,musical or artistic work as authorized by the U.S Constitution andsubsequent legislation.Core bibliographic record: Record followingstandards developed by the Program for Cooperative Cataloging; corestandards exist for books, Music and non-music sound recordings,Printed music and music manuscripts, CONSER, JACKPHY (non-romanlanguages) and Audiovisual materials. Generally includes essentialdescriptive elements and access points. All relevant access pointsare represented by national-level authority records.Corporate entry: A catalog or index entry underthe name of an organization or institution, rather than under anindividual name.COTF: SEE Circulation on the fly.Courant Institute of Mathematical SciencesLibrary: One of the branch libraries in the NYU Librariessystem. Cataloging is done in TSD. CPU: SEE Central processing unit.CRL: SEE Center for Research Libraries.Cross reference: A referral in a catalog orindex from one heading to another. Also called a "reference" and"see-from" reference, or a "use for."Cumulative book index: An index of bookspublished in the English language. Usually cumulated annually. AnH.W. Wilson Company publication.Cutter number: An alphanumeric scheme forindication of the author or main entry following the classificationnumber. It is a filing device to alphabetize or arrange main entrieswithin a given classification number.Dreturn to top ofglossaryData: 1. (Computerapplication) Alpha and numeric characters which are processed by acomputer. 2. (General use) Facts or information gathered for aspecific purpose.Data processing: Manipulation of data accordingto prescribed rules to obtain answers to specific questions.Database: A collection of data stored in acomputer system in such a way that it may be retrieved by differentmeans to form compilations for various purposes.Debug: Detect, locate and correct errors orproblems in a computer program or malfunctions of a computer.Department and Unit Heads (DUH): Group composedof library directors, unit heads, and key administrative staff thatmeets bimonthly (except summer). Functions for information sharingmore than policymaking.Deposit account: Library deposits a sum of moneywith publisher or vendor in order to achieve financial savings byearning discount or bonus from vendor, or because the publisherrequires a deposit prior to supplying materials.Depository: Library agrees to be repository formaterials to which public access is granted. NYU is depository forU.S. federal documents and U.N. documents. SEE ALSO Regionaldepository.Descriptor: A subject heading (word or phrase)applied to a database record.Deteriorated replacement: An item which replacesanother which has become unusable and will be withdrawn from thecollection; may or may not be the same edition and may or may not bein the same format. Order Type (Advance) = DRPL.Dictionary catalog: A catalog arrangement inwhich all entries (authors, subjects, and titles) are interfiledinto one general alphabet. BobCat searches can be interfiled (i.e.all=) or of one sort of entry (e.g. a=, s=, t=)Diogenes: A service provided by RLG and RetroLink Associates whereby a library's machine-readable in-processingrecords are searched against the RLIN database in batch mode. Thoserecords which match the profile are returned to the library forprocessing in the local system.Disaster plan workbook: A loose-leaf guide tohandling emergency situations within Bobst. This manual wasdeveloped by the Preservation Unit and will be kept up to date.There is at least one copy in each department.Discharging: Canceling the loan record uponreturn of a book or other material lent.Division of Libraries: Administrative unit ofNYU under the Dean of Libraries; includes Bobst, Institute of FineArts, Courant, and Real Estate Institute (REI).Document: Contains recorded information on anyphysical form - paper, film, etc. Thus, a book is a document, as isa periodical article, a microfilm, etc. SEE ALSO Bibliographicentity; Government document; Item; Work.DRPL: SEE Deteriorated replacement.DUH: SEE Department and Unit Heads.Dup.: Duplicate.Ereturn to top of glossaryECR: SEE Expenditure control reports.Edition: All copies of a book printed at anytime from the same setting of type. Includes impressions, issues,and printings. According to Gaskill, a book reissued with less thanhalf of the type being reset would be called another impression orissue. (P. Gaskill, A new introduction to bibliography. Oxford U.P.,1972.)Editor: One who prepares for publication an itemnot his or her own. The editorial work may be limited to preparationof the item for the manufacturer, or it may include supervision ofthe manufacturing, revision, or elucidation of the content of theitem, and the addition of an introduction, notes, and other criticalmatter. In some cases, it may involve the technical direction of astaff of persons engaged in creating or compiling the content of theitem. SEE ALSO Compiler.Eights: Job grade of most acquisitions staff andof copy cataloging assistants. In cataloging, Eights select andprocess member copy and perform complex catalog maintenance.Electronic resources: A computer file or fileswhich is accessible to library users or staff. May be locatedphysically at NYU; may be available via modem or Internet.Electronic Resources Center: Located on Bobst B-Level. Provides access to databases, electronic texts, Internet, andsoftware applications; also has classroom facilities.Electronic Text Center: Provides research accessto a selection of electronic texts and databases; also providestools for the creation and markup of texts and images.Electrostatic printing: SEE Xerography.Elmer Holmes Bobst Library: SEE Bobst LibraryElmer: Nickname for computer servers through which most Bobst PCs have access to ADVANCE, Pegasus mail, word processing, spreadsheets, the Internet, etc. Elmer4 is the current Windows server (implemented 1997-1998). Elmer1 was the DOS server.End papers: A folded sheet of paper in a book,plain or printed, having one leaf that forms a pastedown and anotherthat forms a fly leaf. Also called endleaf, endsheet.Entry: A heading in a catalog, index, ordatabase under which a record of a book, serial article, etc. islocated. Each cataloged book, serial, etc. has entries in BobCat;entries for serial articles are found primarily in periodicalindexes, not in BobCat. A main entry is the entry under which anitem is cataloged, and may be an individual author, a corporatebody, or a title. Added entries are additional entries under whichan item may be found, such as joint authors or editors, title, orseries. Subject entries locate an item by subject. An analytic entryis for a part of a larger work, such as an article in a collectionor anthology. A series entry is under the series heading.ERC: SEE Electronic Resources Center.Eureka: Patron interface to RLIN; available atmany locations in Bobst.Expenditure control report: A monthly financialreport issued by the Controllers Division for each department orproject on the University's budget. In Acquisitions, it is used tomonitor the expenditure of money from each account in the materialsbudget.Export (OCLC command): SEE XPO.Freturn to top of glossaryFaculty meeting: The bimonthly meeting of thefaculty librarians at NYU.Fales Library: The special collectionsdepartment for NYU Libraries, located on the third floor of Bobst.Specializes in English and American literature.Fascicle: One of the temporary divisions of aprinted item that, for convenience in printing or publication, isissued in small installments, usually incomplete in themselves; theydo not necessarily coincide with any formal division of the workinto parts, etc. Usually the fascicle is protected by temporarypaper wrappers. It may or may not be numbered. A fascicle isdistinguished from a part by being a temporary division rather thana formal component unit.FastCat: The cataloging workflow with copyprovided by the Library of Congress and loaded into the maindatabase (BMC). LC copy is assumed to be of high quality and nosignificant editing of the bibliographic entity is required. Thecataloging thereby goes quickly; hence the "fast" in FastCat.Fields: Distinct parts of a database record,such as title, author, or subject.File transfer protocol (FTP): Method used fortransferring electronic files from one computer to another, e.g.,MARC cataloging from Casalini's computer to Bobst's Advancecomputer, or from RLIN to Advance, or from Advance to RLIN.Filing title: SEE Uniform title.Fine Arts Library: SEE Institute of Fine Arts.Art materials are also found in Bobst Library, Cooper Union, ParsonsSchool of Design, and at the Grey Art Gallery. The gallery libraryis not represented in BobCat and is principally for departmentaluse.Firm order: A request for a book, video, etc.made by mailing, faxing, or phoning a purchase order to a publisheror vendor. Unlike approval books, money is encumbered for theseorders and the materials cannot normally be returned unlessdefective or damaged.Fiscal year: A "Budget" year which begins on agiven day of a month, and ends the previous day of the followingyear. The NYU fiscal year begins September 1 and ends August 31. NewSchool's fiscal year begins July 1 and ends June 30 of the followingyear.Folio: A book made of large sheets of paperfolded once. Thus folio size is usually large, depending upon theoriginal size of the paper.Foreign Acquisitions Program (Formerly PL 480):A cooperative foreign acquisitions program which is dollar fundedfor the Library of Congress and other participants, including NYU.Materials are received in Bobst from the followingprograms: Middle East Cooperative Acquisitions Program inCairo for Arab world serials; FAP/Islamabad for Iranian monographicand serial imprints; Brazilian serial(s) from the Rio office.FTP: SEE File transfer protocol.Fund code: Alphabetic codes set up in Advancefor purposes of allocating and reporting budget expenditures bysubject. Sometimes there is a one-to-one correspondence between afund code and an account number; in other cases, there are numerousfund codes for one account number. Example: B-B-H-ART.Further search: The process of searching thebibliographic utilities (OCLC and/or RLIN) for fuller catalogingcopy for an item, principally refers to the searching done bycataloging staff of newly-received materials.Greturn to top of glossaryGBA: SEE Stern School of Business (formerlyGraduate School of Business Administration).Geac: The company which developed and maintainsAdvance, the system used by NYU Libraries. Earlier versions of Geacsoftware were called GLIS, Geac 8000, Geac 9000, etc.GLIS: Geac Library Information System; used atNYU for circulation, OPAC, serials and maintenance before Advance.Government documents: Monographs, serialpublications, reports, communications; any official publication of agovernmental agency on any level.Government Printing Office: The officialprinting arm of the U.S. government.GPO: SEE Government Printing Office.Grade 7 staff: SEE Sevens.Grade 8 staff: SEE Eights.Graduate School of Business Administration: SEEStern School of Business.Hreturn to top of glossaryHalf-FastCat: The cataloging workflow with LCcopy provided by Yankee Book Peddler and loaded into the Workfilerather than the main database (BMC). The LC record must be movedfrom the Workfile and the data merged with the acquisitions recordin the BMC. SEE ALSO FastCat.Hard copy: Usually paper copy which does notrequire magnification or a computer in order to be read.Hard cover: A cloth or buckram bound volume.Hardware: The mechanical and electronic aspectsof a computer. Compare with software, the programs that run thecomputer."The Hold": The cataloging backlog. Non-priorityitems are housed in LCN order. Any item with copy or for a prioritylocation or with a requestor is not placed in the Hold. Some items(currently red-flagged) have adequate copy but no usable callnumber.Holdings: The record of the number of copies andlocations for library materials. Data is entered on Item UpdateScreen in Advance and displayed in BobCat.Holdings screen: SEE Item record.Homepage: An Internet location or site,maintained by an organization, business, or individual, whichprovides a central starting point for relevant information.Generally includes links to offerings on the same site or othersites, without the need to use other addresses or search engines.Ireturn to top ofglossaryILL: SEEInterlibrary loan.Imprint: Place of publication, publisher anddate of publication."In processing": Item status used in the BobCatdisplay for items which have been ordered and received, but whichare not yet cataloged. Item update screen usually has a morespecific status.Information Desk ("Info Desk"): Located incatalog area on first floor of Bobst.Information retrieval: SEE Retrieval.Insourcing: SEE Outsourcing.Institute of Fine Arts Library: Graduateresearch library (Stephen Chan Library of Fine Arts) in art historyand conservation; located on 78th Street at Fifth Avenue. Part ofthe NYU Division of Libraries. Cataloging is done in TSD.Interactive multimedia: A work residing in oneor more physical carriers (videodiscs, computer disks, computeroptical discs, compact discs, etc.) or on computer networks. Mustexhibit both 1) user-controlled, nonlinear navigation using computertechnology, and 2) combination of two or more media (audio, text,graphics, images, animation, and video) manipulated by user tocontrol the order and/or nature of presentation.Interlibrary loan: A service for obtainingmonographic or serial material not held in the local library. TheBobst ILL office is located on the first floor.International Standard Book Number (ISBN): Anumber which identifies one title or edition of a title, from onespecific publisher, and is unique to that title or edition. Includesfour units: country/language code; publisher number; book number;and check digit. Valid ISBNs have ten digits; check digit may be"X."International Standard Serial Number (ISSN): Aninternationally-accepted code which uniquely identifies a serialpublication. Consists of eight digits divided in the middle by ahyphen. Assigned by the various International Serial Data CentersInternet: The world-wide "network of networks"connecting government, academic, and commercial agencies (e.g.NSFNET, WestNet, America Online) using the Internet protocol (IP).Each network consists of linked computers which are, in turn, linkedto other networks which connect multiple computers. Each host canhave its own look and feel; when connected to a remote host, youmust use the conventions of the remote host. The term "internet" isalso more broadly used to designate any set of interconnected,logically-independent networks. Services available include:remote login, telnet, e-mail, FTP, news, bulletin boards. TheAcademic Computing Facility maintains the NYUnet which is connectedto our Internet provider NYSERnet (New York Systems EducationResearch).ISBN: SEE International Standard Book Number.ISSN: SEE International Standard Serial Number.Item: A physical object, such as a book or asound recording, as distinct from the intellectual entity, or work,it contains.Item record: Also called the "piece(s) record"or "holdings screen." Contains information, such as location andbarcode, that relates principally to the item, as opposed to thebibliographic record, which contains information relating to thework.JKreturn to top of glossaryJournal: A periodical or record on aspecialized topic often issued by a professional publisher orsociety for a limited audience.Kardex: Before the development of computerizedcheck-in records, metal Kardex cabinets held cards for recording thereceipt, payment, and claims for serial and standing order titles.The serials kardex is totally converted to Advance. The standingorder kardex is mostly converted to Advance. (N.B. "Kardex" was thetrade name of the original equipment.)Lreturn to top of glossaryLAN: SEE Local area network.Law Library: The NYU law library is located at40 Washington Square South. Administered separately from BobstLibrary, including technical services.LC: SEE Library of Congress; and terms beginningwith LC ...LC cataloging: Cataloging copy created or editedby LC and distributed to OCLC, RLIN, etc.; considered the mostauthoritative cataloging source.LC Copy Cataloging Unit: The unit in theTechnical Services Department responsible for completing thecataloging of items with LC copy; also responsible for routinecatalog maintenance and book labelling, etc.; consists primarily ofGrade 7 staff.LCCN: Library of Congress card number (termstill used even though cards are not generally being produced).LCN: SEE Local control number.Leaf: One sheet of paper plain or printed on oneside only. SEE ALSO Page.LI: SEE Library identifier.Library Council: Consists of six electedlibrary faculty, Council is concerned with all matters relating tothe welfare and responsibilities of Bobst library faculty. Organizescontinuing education programs for library faculty.Library identifier (LI): The institutional codein RLIN; usually starts with abbreviation for state followed byinstitutional mnemonic (e.g. NYU is NYUG; Columbia is NYCG; Cornellis NYCX; Yale is CTYG; Berkeley is CUBG); an institution may havemore than one LI.Library of Congress: The unofficial nationallibrary of the U.S., producing cataloging records and other productsused in technical services, etc.Library of Congress classification: Thealphanumeric system developed by the Library of Congress for its owncollections. The alphabetic symbols denote broad, general subjectareas, while the numerals which follow indicate facets within asubject. (e.g. D - History. DC - French history. DC 141 - Frenchhistory, Revolutionary and Napoleonic period, 1789-1815 - Sourcesand documents.Local area network (LAN): A data communicationssystem linking workstations within a restricted goegraphical areaand allowing the sharing of information and resources. The Bobst LANis Ethernet and it was first installed in 1983. The layout isessentially a string of PCs connected along a segment via bluecables.Local Control Number (LCN): Unique numberassigned sequentially by Advance to each record; each database (e.g.Workfile, BMC, Authorities) has its own sequence.Mreturn to top of glossaryMain entry: Officially, the main catalog recordof an item, presented in the form by which the entity is to beuniformly identified and cited (per AACR2). Colloquially refers tothe access point (e.g. personal author, corporate author, title,uniform title) that appears at the top of a full AACR2 record. SEEALSO Entry.Machine-readable: Information encoded in a formwhich can be read by a machine, usually means computer-readable.MAchine-Readable Cataloging: SEE MARC.Mannes College of Music: Part of the New Schoolsince 1989; cataloging and acquisitions are done at Mannes;cataloging records are present in BobCat.Mansell: The publisher of the NUC pre-1956imprints. This particular set of NUCs is often referred to by thepublisher's name.MARC: MAchine-Readable Cataloging. Machine-readable records of cataloging done by the Library of Congress andsold on subscription, as well as records done by others. MARCrecords are distributed on tape and by FTP and are constantly beingadded to RLIN, OCLC, and other databases. Each MARC implementation(e.g. OCLC MARC, RLIN MARC, MARC in Advance) varies slightly fromUSMARC.Membership: As used in Acquisitions, a method ofacquiring materials (usually books and serials) whereby the librarypays an institutional membership fee in order to get anorganization's publications.METRO: A consortium of over 300 academic, publicand research libraries in the New York City metropolitan area;services include reciprocal on-site access, interlibrary loan,cooperative purchase of materials, and workshops and classes.Microform: An item which contains images whichcannot be read without a machine which magnifies. Images are usuallyon 35 mm. film or fiche, but may also be on 16 mm. film or opaquecards. Microfiche and microcards often contain a title which can beread without magnification.Middle East Cooperative Acquisitions Program(MECAP): Cooperative program based in Cairo and coordinatedby Middle East Librarian through which NYU receives its Arab worldserials.Midwinter: One of the semi-annual conferences ofthe American Library Association.Missing replacement: An item which replacesanother which has been declared missing and which is not expected tobe recovered; may or may not be the same edition and may or may notbe in the same format. Order Type (Advance) = MRPL.Monograph: A treatise published singly on onesubject. Generally a book. May be in more than one volume and may bein a non-book format. According to AACR2, "a nonserial item (i.e.,an item either complete in one part or complete, or intended to becompleted, in a finite number of separate parts."Monographic series: SEE Series.MRDF: Machine-Readable Data Files.MRPL: SEE Missing replacement.Multimedia item: An item containing two or morecategories of material, no one of which is identifiable as thepredominant constituent of the item.Music Library: Music collections in Bobst aredistributed between the stacks and Avery Fisher Center. The generalmusic collection is located on the second floor. Music Reference isin the lounge of the 2nd floor. There are also music reference booksin REF1. Certain other reference materials (e.g. oversize programbooklets for CDs, collection development resources) are located inAvery Fisher reference. Music reserves and current music periodicalsare also located in Avery Fisher reference.Nreturn to top of glossaryNACO: Cooperative program for the creation ofname authority records in the authority file maintained at LC; partof the Program for Cooperative Cataloging.NAF: SEE Name Authority File.NAL: National Agricultural Library.Name Authority File (NAF): Contains authorityrecords for persons, corporate bodies, places, uniform titles,series, etc. based on common procedures and maintained by LC. Alsobecoming known as the Anglo-American Authority File (AAAF).National bibliography: A catalog of bookscurrent or retrospective which attempts to list the completepublishing output of any one country. The national bibliography forthe United States has been the National Union Catalog.National Cooperative Cataloging Program (NCCP):SEE Program for Cooperative Cataloging.National Union Catalog (NUC): A card cataloglocated in the Library of Congress showing the reported holdingsfrom hundreds of libraries in United States and Canada. NUC wasperiodically issued in book form for various time periods. Theprimary cumulation of NUC covers imprints from ca. 1898 (andearlier) to 1955 (also called Mansell or NUC pre-1956). NUC'sfunction has been largely overtaken by OCLC, RLIN and remote-accessto library catalogs. The library codes used in NUC are widely usedto refer to libraries; the code is usually mnemonic with state-city-institution (e.g. NNU for New York University; NN for New YorkPublic Library; NIC for Cornell; CtY for Yale; MH for Harvard; DLCfor the Library of Congress; CaQMCCA for Canadian Centre forArchitecture in Montreal, Quebec).NCCP: SEE Program for Cooperative Cataloging(formerly National Cooperative Cataloging Program).Netscape: A widely-available navigation softwarefor the World-wide Web.Networking: (Libraries) A plan of communicationbetween two or more libraries to accomplish certain establishedgoals (e.g. interlibrary loan, cooperative cataloging). Method ofcommunication may be teletype, computer generated, telephone, mail,messenger, etc. Networks are often between consortium members, e.g.OCLC, RLG, the Consortium.New or revised edition: An edition containingsubstantial revision from the original text. Also used when morethan half of the type has been reset. SEE ALSO Edition and Reprint.New School for Social Research: One of thelibraries in the Consortium, located around Fifth Avenue and 13thStreet. Parent institution for Parsons School of Design and MannesCollege of Music.New serial titles (NST): An update andcontinuation of the Union list of serials.New York Technical Services Librarians: A groupof metropolitan area librarians; meets twice a year (May andDecember) and holds a spring reception.NLM: National Library of Medicine.Non-book materials: SEE Non-print media.Non-print media: Communication in a form otherthan books, periodicals or the printed word. Included are films,audio-visual tapes, television, sound recordings, slides, computerfiles, interactive multimedia, etc.NST: SEE New serial titles.NUC: SEE National Union Catalog.NUC codes: Library identifiers used in NationalUnion Catalog.NUC pre-1956: SEE National Union Catalog, andMansell.NYLA (pronounced "Nila") New York LibraryAssociation. The professional library association for New York Statelibrarians.NYPL: New York (City) Public Library.NYSILL: New York State Interlibrary Loan. Statenetwork centered in the State Library at Albany to serve alllibraries in the state by lending books or photoduplicating serialarticles not held in the collection of the requesting library or inany of the requester's consortium partners.NYTSL: SEE New York Technical ServicesLibrarians.NYUG: The RLIN code (library identifier) for NYUand the Consortium (not the law and medical libraries).Oreturn to top of glossaryOCLC: Online Computer Library Center (earliername: Ohio College Library Center). A library processingcenter which has a database built on the holdings of its constituentlibraries, using MARC records (and other services). Cataloging isaccomplished online or via downloading. Also acts as a union catalogby giving locations of libraries holding any given title.Octavo: A sheet folded (in half) three times toform a section of eight leaves or sixteen pages.Offline: An operation or device that is not indirect communication with the computer. In an offline mode, humanintervention is necessary between data entry and ultimateprocessing. Also used informally to describe work not dependent ondirect access to Advance. SEE ALSO Online.Ohio College Library Center: SEE OCLC.Online: An operation or device that is in directcommunication with the computer. SEE ALSO Offline.Online Computer Library Center: SEE OCLC.Online resource: An electronic resource locatedon a remote computer and searched over the Internet or via modem.OPAC: Online public access catalog. BobCat isthe OPAC for NYU and the Consortium (except law and medicallibraries).Original Cataloging Unit: The unit in theTechnical Services Department responsible for original cataloging,for complex copy cataloging, and complex maintenance; consists offaculty librarians.Outsourcing: The use of a vendor, etc. toperform a task, rather than doing the task inhouse.Examples: shelf-ready books (acquired, cataloged, andprocessed) from Yankee Book Peddler; backlog searching via Diogenes.Some libraries are taking in technical services work and informallycall it "insourcing."PQreturn to top of glossaryPage: One side of a leaf; a sheet of paper whichis printed on both sides. (One leaf = 2 pages.)Pagination: A description of page numbering in abook.Paging: (Page, a library assistant) The act ofan assistant ("page") who carries books (or other material) to andfrom the stacks upon request. For bibliographic paging, SEEPagination.Pamphlet: A small printed item, usually amonograph.Parsons School of Design: One of the librariesin the Consortium, part of New School for Social Research. Locatedat Fifth Avenue and 13th Street.PC: SEE Personal computer.PCC: SEE Program for Cooperative Cataloging.Perfect binding: Folded section of volume (SEESignature) is cut, the loose sheets then being coated with a strong,but flexible adhesive.Periodical: A serial publication intended toappear at regular intervals indefinitely. Usually contains separatearticles or other writings. A periodical is a serial, but allserials are not periodicals.Periodical index: A subject, sometimes alsoauthor and title index to a group of periodicals. (e.g. Readers'guide to periodical literature)Personal computer: A computer with a CPU capableof running software and connecting to networks. SEE ALSO Terminal.Photoduplication: Various printing andreprographic methods used for quick duplication, e.g. Xerography,Olivettiography, offset lithography, microfilm, photostat.Pieces record: SEE Item record.P.L. 480: SEE Foreign Acquisitions Program.Pre-1956 NUC: SEE National Union Catalog.Press (shelving): SEE Section.Printer: The individual or firm which actuallyprints material. A printer is sometimes, but not always, thepublisher.Priority books: Expedited processing is given toitems for Consortium libraries, reference centers within Bobst,branch libraries, items requested by a user, etc. Non-priority itemswithout cataloging copy are placed in the Hold.Profile: SEE Approval plan.Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC): Aninternational cooperative effort aimed at expanding access tolibrary collections by providing useful, timely, and cost-effectivecataloging that meets mutually-accepted standards around the world.Coordinated jointly by the Library of Congress and PCC participants;major programs include NACO, SACO, BIBCO. Earlier known as NationalCoordinated Cataloging Program or National Cooperative CatalogingProgram, etc., NCCP.Progressions: The newsletter of the NYU Divisionof Libraries.Promotion and Tenure Committee: SEE Appointment,Reappointment and Promotion Panel.P-slip: A plain piece of paper the size of acatalog card, sometimes with punched hole for use in a catalogdrawer.PTLA: SEE Publishers' trade list annual.Public catalog: SEE Card catalog.Publication date: The date a book was actuallypublished. This date sometimes varies from the copyright date.Publisher: The individual, corporation, society,etc. responsible for the underwriting, editing, printing, anddistribution of a work. SEE ALSO Printer.Publishers' trade list annual: Acompilation of current publishers' catalogs. Authors, titles andsubjects are indexed in the various volumes of Books in print (BIP).PUT: The command used in RLIN to request thetransfer via FTP of a record from RLIN to Advance. The "put" recordis filed in the Advance Workfile.Rreturn to top of glossaryRange: Double-sided shelving or bookcase of notless than four tiers. SEE ALSO Section (shelving).Reader cards: Library use cards issued tocertain readers outside of the NYU community.Ready reference: Reference books other thanabstracts, bibliographies, or indexes used for quick informationrequiring a single, simple answer.Recon: (REtrospective CONversion) The conversionof cataloging records from cards to MARC. Unconverted items arerepresented by cards in the shelf list and/or card catalog.Recto: The right hand page of a book or thefront of a single sheet. A single page title page is usually on therecto. SEE ALSO Verso.REF1: Reference service center on first floor ofBobst; principally for general reference and humanities.REF6: Reference service center on sixth floor ofBobst; principally for social sciences, business, and governmentdocuments.REF9: Reference service center on ninth floor ofBobst; principally for physical and natural sciences.Reference: 1. A direction from one heading toanother (also called cross or x-reference, or see or see also, oruse for). 2. A note referring to another document or passage.Reference service: The aid given by a librarianor surrogate, to a reader or library user to find information. Theextent and level of service given varies according to the questionand its complexity.Referral form: Form used for Cataloging staff toalert Acquisitions staff that the electronic link between the orderrecord and the cataloging record in Advance was broken for somereason. Cataloging staff refer the LCN of the cataloged record toAcquisitions staff, who key the LCN into the order record toartificially re-establish the link between the ordering data and thecataloged data, for auditing purposes.Regional depository: Libraries designated by theSuperintendent of Documents to accept and permanently keep acomplete collection of publications, thus making it unnecessary forother depositories to retain their documents after five years. NYUis a U.S. Federal Depository Library. Some federal publications arecataloged and added to the collection at NYU; other documents areavailable on microprint.Remote access: Communicating with a database orother electronic resource which is not physically present on thecomputer or local area network."Replace": The command in Advance which replacesone bibliographic record with another, customarily used to bringtogether a fuller bibliographic record with a minimal-levelacquisitions record. The replaced record retains the LCN of theacquisitions record.Reprint: A new printing of a book. Can also bean edition in cheaper form than the original, e.g., paperbackeditions which follow hard cover editions.Reprography: SEE Photoduplication.Research Libraries Group: (RLG) A consortiumoriginally consisting of New York Public Library ResearchCollections, Harvard, Yale and Columbia University Libraries; nowincludes more than 150 libraries in North America and Europe. Areasof cooperation: coordinated acquisitions of esotericmaterials little used in any one library; cooperative catalogingusing the RLIN database; and interlibrary loan.Research Libraries Information Network: SEERLIN.Research Library Association of South Manhattan:SEE "The Consortium."Reserve desk: Service center on A-Level of Bobstwhere materials are placed on reserve by the faculty for specialcourses.Retrieval: The act of locating a document.Information retrieval: the act of manually orelectronically locating information. Finding a wanted book in thestacks is information retrieval as is a computer printout ofabstracts on any given subject.Retrospective conversion: SEE Recon.Returns: Items sent back or returned to asupplier for credit or replacement because they are defective,damaged, duplicate, etc.RLG: SEE Research Libraries Group.RLIN (Research Libraries Information Network):Bibliographic utility operated by RLG.RLIN library identifier: SEE Library identifier.Romanization: The transliteration of lettersinto the roman script. SEE Transliteration.Sreturn to top of glossarySearch engine (Internet): A software programenabling a user to find resources on the Internet. May includevarious indexes.Section (shelving): A single side of shelveswith more than two tiers, placed end to end. When double-sided,called a range."See" references: See in addition to ...Selector: Staff entrusted with selecting librarymaterials in a particular subject area; selectors work withbibliographers in the development of the library collections. SEEALSO Bibliographer; Collection development; Collection ServicesDepartment.Serial: A publication issued in successive partsbearing numerical or chronological designations. Intended to becontinued indefinitely. Included are periodicals, newspapers,annuals, proceedings, transactions, monographic series, etc.Serial holdings: Holdings for serial titles aregiven in Advance and displayed for the public in BobCat. There is noseparate listing of periodicals and other serials for the public.There is a list of periodicals housed in the Current Periodicalssection of Bobst A-Level. SEE ALSO Holdings.Series: Separate publications on a specificsubject having a collective title (serial), in addition to theindividual titles (monographic). Series usually have a uniformphysical format and are usually issued by the same publisher, andmay or may not be numbered. Analyzed means that each part of theseries has its own bibliographic record. If it is analyzed but notclassified together, it is referred to as "cataloged separately" or"cat sep." Unanalyzed means that there is only a record for theseries and not for the individual parts. There will be a seriesadded entry in BobCat for each issue in an analyzed or "cat sep"series. A series or serial may also be partially analyzed, withrecords for only selected numbers in the series or serial.Sevens: Job grade of junior copy catalogingassistants. Sevens process LC copy and perform straightforwardcatalog maintenance.Shared Copy Cataloging Unit: The unit inTechnical Services Department responsible for completion ofcataloging based on copy from sources other than LC; consistsprimarily of Grade 8 staff.Shelf list: Catalog entries arranged byclassification number - as books and other materials are arranged onthe shelves.Signature: (book binding) A printed folded sheetforming part of a volume. The signatures collected in order, arethen placed together and sewed before the book is completely bound.Software: The programs written by the user orcomputer manufacturer that control the operation of the computer.Spine: The covering on the bound edge of avolume.Stacks: The space equipped with shelving for thestorage of books on one or more floors. (Also called "stacklevels".) SEE ALSO Range and Section. Open stacks: publicallowed free access. Closed stacks: Access to stackslimited to certain individuals or group of individuals, or only tostaff.Standing order: An order the library places toreceive all parts of a multi-part work as volumes are published,such as multi-volume works, monographic series, etc. until apublisher or dealer is notified to cancel or work is complete [bj].Also called a continuation. SEE ALSO Subscription.Stern School of Business: The business school atNYU, formerly called the Graduate School of Business Administrationand located in the Wall Street area. Stern library materials wereincorporated into the Bobst collections in summer 1992.Subject entries: SEE under Entry.Subscription: An order the library places toreceive all parts of a serial as they are published. Subscriptionsmust be paid in advance before the supplier will ship the material. SEE ALSO Standing order.SUNY: State University of New York. Statewidesystem of publicly supported colleges and universities.Support(ing) staff: Library staff other thanacademic or administrative staff.Surrogate: A substitute: A surrogate orsubstitute for a document could be an abstract of its contents. Alsophotocopied information needed for cataloging rather than theoriginal document.Treturn to top of glossaryTechnical services: The non-public libraryservices which include the acquisition, cataloging, record keepingand physical preparation of material which take place before avolume (or other item)) is ready to circulate.Terminal: In general, the equipment on one endof a circuit which can send and receive messages. It does notcontain its own CPU and is therefore not capable of performing tasksother than the particularly assigned task. SEE ALSO Personalcomputer.Title: A unique bibliographic unit which canrefer to a monograph of one or more volumes, or a serial.Tracing: Term used for added entries on acatalog record. Originally applied to the production of catalogcards but term retained into automated environment. SEE ALSO Entry.Transliteration: The representation ofcharacters or words of one language by corresponding characters ofwords of another language. The usual practice is to romanize, thatis, to transliterate into roman characters. Books in Cyrillic andEast Asian scripts are cataloged in BobCat in romanized form. Booksin Semitic scripts are cataloged in RLIN in vernacular form and theromanized portions are loaded into Advance.Truncation: Cutting a search term at its root toretrieve words with different endings. For example, architect# wouldlead to architect, architects, architecture, architectural ...Truncation may be implicit in a system (Advance uses implicittruncation in phrase searching). The truncation symbol varies fromsystem to system (RLIN uses #).TSD: Technical Services Department.Ureturn to top of glossaryULS: SEE Union List of Serials.Unanalyzed series: A series with only abibliographic record for the series and not for individual numbersin the series. SEE ALSO Series.Uniform title: The object of the uniform titleis to be able to file all forms of a work together in the catalog inspite of its various titles, translations, and forms. 1.Literature: Usually the original title of a work in theoriginal language. The title is further divided by parts andlanguage of the text, if different from the original language. 2.Music: Usually the original title of a work or a standardform formulated for works with generic titles such as symphonies,concertos, sonatas, etc. Further divided by score. Uniform titlesare used mostly for prolific classical authors, composers andanonymous works. Also called conventional title and filing title.Union catalog: A catalog showing the holdings ofa given group of libraries. BobCat includes holdings for Bobst, IFA,Courant, Cooper Union, New School, Parsons, and the New York Academyof Art, among other libraries. The National Union Catalog showsholdings from hundreds of libraries nationwide. OCLC and RLIN haverecords and holdings from thousands of institutions.Union list of serials (ULS): The unionlist of serials in libraries in the United States and Canada. A listof serials with basic information and a list of libraries which havereported as holding any given serial title. Updated by New serialtitles.University of the State of New York: Previouslyknown as the New York State Education Department. SUNY (StateUniversity of New York) is administratively part of the Universityof the State of New York.USBE: (formerly Universal Serials and BookExchange, Inc. and the United States Book Exchange) Clearinghouse ofpublications; accepting, holding and distributing publications fromvarious libraries.USMARC: SEE MARC.Vreturn to top of glossaryVendor: "Middle man" distributor through whichthe library obtains books, serials, etc. instead of dealing withpublisher directly. Vendors facilitate the acquisitions process byallowing the library to consolidate orders, receipts, invoices, andcustomer service.Verification: Establishment of an accuratebibliographic citation in a standard source of reference.Vernacular script: Scripts other than roman,e.g. Arabic, Chinese, cyrillic, Hebrew, Japanese.Verso: The left hand page of a book, or the backof a single sheet. The back of a title page. (SEE ALSO Recto).Wreturn to top of glossary"The Web": SEE World Wide Web.Work: An intellectual entity contained in anitem; the content of a bibliographic entity.Workfile: A file of bibliographic records in theAdvance database, without items, which contains records waiting tobe made into full-level cataloging records in the main database. Mayvary from minimal vendor records to full copy loaded from anexternal resource (e.g. RLIN, OCLC) to records in progress. In theAdvance Cataloguing Module, the Workfile is called the BibliographicWorkfile Cataloguing or BWC.World Wide Web (WWW): Officially "a wide-areahypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universalaccess to a large universe of documents," WWW tries to present aconsistent interface for using a variety of media in a simplifiedfashion. Mosaic is a graphically-oriented Web browser which allowsfor seamless presentation of sound, media, and hypertext. Lynx is atext browser which allows computers running a VT100 terminalemulation to gain access to text portions of WWW resources, withhypertext links indicated. SEE ALSO Internet.WWW: SEE World Wide Web.XYZreturn to top of glossaryXerography: Electrostatic printing process whichuses dry resin powder and heat for fusing images on paper. Othertypes of electrostatic printing such as Olivetti and 3-M use tonersin solution to create images on special coated paper.XPO: The command in OCLC to export a record toAdvance. Records from Elmer are exported directly to Advance. Fromthe Further Search process on dedicated terminals, the records arecurrently loaded onto disk and then loaded into the Workfile bysystems office staff.YBP: SEE Yankee Book Peddler.Yankee Book Peddler: The principal vendor atBobst for domestic approval books (April 1996-).ZYU: NYU code in OCLC. |
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