AAL - Ask a Librarian, a service of the RUL

AALL - Ask a Librarian Live

ASC - Access Services Committee

AUL - Associate University Librarian

CDC - Collection Development Council (Predecessor to LRC)

CHEN - Council for Higher Education in Newark

CISC - Cyber-Infrastructure Steering Committee

CKDB - Common Knowledge Data Base (begun initially at Alexander Library and became a project of NBL - http://ckdb.rutgers.edu)

CRC - Continuing Resources Cataloging

CSC - Committee on Scholarly Communication

CTAAR - Center for Teaching Advancement and Assessment Research

CTS - Central Technical Services (located on the Busch Campus in the Technical Services Building)

DCRC - Digital Curation Research Center (on 4th floor at Alexander Library)

DIG - Digital Interface Group (group formed under auspices of LRC and USC)

DTS - Distributed Technical Services (located at Alexander Library)

DWG - Data Working Group

ERP - Ethnographic Research Project

ETD - Electronic Theses and Dissertations (part of RUCore)

FCP - Faculty Compensation Program

FDLP - Federal Depository Library Program

FIGS - First Year Interest Group Seminar

ICOP - Instructional Community of Practice

IJS - Institute of Jazz Studies (located at Dana Library, Newark)

ILIAC - Information Literacy Implementation Advisory Committee (under the auspices of USC)

ILLiad - OCLC Resource Sharing Management software (for interlibrary loan)

IMLS - Institute of Museum and Library Services (a grant-making federal agency)

IPAC - IRIS Public Access Committee (former name for the Library Catalog Committee)

IRIS - Integrated Rutgers Information System (former name of the Library Catalog, change effective July 1, 2011)"

ISAWG - Inventory and Stacks Automation Working Group

ISC - Instructional Services Committee (Disbanded and replaced by ICOP)

LCC - Library Catalog Committee (formerly IPAC)

LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

LIS - Library Information System Committee

LRC - Library Resources Council (one of two major councils advising the AUL/Collection Development & Management and AUL/Digital Library Systems)

LSM - Library of Science & Medicine

MDS - Materials Delivery Service (interlibrary loan, intra-library loans, etc.)

MEMDB - Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank (http://www2.scc.rutgers.edu/memdb/)

MIC - Moving Image Collections (http://gondolin.rutgers.edu/MIC/)

NBCG - New Brunswick Collections Group

NBISG - New Brunswick Information Services Group

NBISSG - New Brunswick Information Services Steering Group

NBL - New Brunswick Libraries

NBLF - New Brunswick Libraries Faculty

NJEDge -a non-profit technology consortium of academic and research institutions in New Jersey (http://www.njedge.net)

NJEDL - New Jersey Environmental Digital Library (http://njedl.rutgers.edu)

NJDH - New Jersey Digital Highway (http://www.njdigitalhighway.org/)

NJVid - New Jersey Digital Video Repository (http://fdr.njedge.net/njvid/)

OIRT - Office of Instructional and Research Technology (part of OIT, Office of Instructional Technology)

OIT - Office of Instructional Technology for Rutgers University

OJS - Open Journal System

OLE - Open Library Environment (an initiative funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, in which RUL is participating with Duke, Lehigh, and other institutions)

ORSP - Office of Research and Sponsored Programs for Rutgers University

PALCI - Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc.

PALS - Program in American Language Studies

PCSP - Pragmatic Case Studies in Psychotherapy (http://pcsp.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/pcsp)

PCWG - PC Working Group

PEC - Peer Evaluation Committee (part of the FCP process for library faculty)

PlanCo - Planning and Coordinating Committee, an RUL standing committee

PPAAC - Personnel Policy and Affirmative Action Committee

RA - Reference Assistant

RDA - Resource Description & Access

RDS - Rutgers Delivery Service

REBL - Reciprocal Borrowing and Lending Program

Relais - E-ZBorrow software

RIS - Research and Instructional Services

RIOT - Research Information Online Tutorial (http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/lib_instruct/riot/)

RLRC - Research Leave Review Committee

RoP - Rules of Procedure Committee

RSG - Resource Sharing Group

RUCore - Rutgers Institutional Repository/Rutgers Community Repository

RUL - Rutgers University Libraries

RULAC - Rutgers University Libraries Advisory Committee

RWJUH - Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital

SAPAC - Scholarly and Professional Activities Committee

SAS - Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences

SC&I - School of Communication & Information

SCC - Scholarly Communication Center (located on the 4th floor of Alexander Library)

SEBS - Rutgers School of Environmental & Biological Sciences

SERC - Science and Engineering Resource Center

SMLR - School of Management and Labor Relations

SIVWG - Streaming Instructional Videos Working Group

TAS - Technical and Automated Services (located in the Technical Services Building, Busch)

TLH - Teleconference Lecture Hall (located on the 4th floor, Alexander Library)

TSB - Technical Services Building, Busch Campus

TSCWG - Technical Services Core Working Group

UMDNJ - University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

USAWG - User Services & Applications Working Group

USC - User Services Council (one of two major councils advising the AUL/RIS and AUL/Digital Library Systems)

VALE - Virtual Academic Library Environment

VMC - Video Mosaic Collaborative

WAAND - Women Artists Archive National Directory (http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/lib_instruct/riot/)

WAC - Web Advisory Committee

WILD - Women in Leadership Database (http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/wild/)

XACML - Extensible access control markup language