Glossary and Useful Links

Alternative Format Material

http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/NWLInterlending/resources/beeaware
Usually a print item produced in a format such as audio, Braille, Moon etc.

Bee Aware

http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/NWLInterlending/resources/beeaware
A campaign to promote inter lending of alternative format materials for visually impaired and print disabled people

BL

www.bl.uk
The British Library

BL DLC

www.bl.uk/reshelp/atyourdesk/docsupply/help/replycodes/
The British Library Directory of Library Codes

BLDSC

British Library Document Supply Centre Boston Spa

BL Reply Codes

www.bl.uk/reshelp/atyourdesk/docsupply/help/replycodes/list/
British Library request reply codes

BLIC

http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-list
British Library Integrated Catalogue

CILIP

www.cilip.org.uk/default.cilip
Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals

Combined Regions (The) (TCR)

www.combinedregions.com
TCR is made up of regional member organisations and works in partnership with OCLC to scope, deliver and develop the UnityUK service. 

CONARLS

www.conarls.org/index.php
Circle of Officers of National & Regional Library Systems
A co-operative providing strategic and operational support for library resource discovery and sharing in the United Kingdom and Ireland.  Members include a nominated representative from the library and information sector in the English regions, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the British Library.

CONARLS
IRU Scheme Participants

www.nls.uk/professional/interlibraryservices/services/conarls.cfm
Conarls Inter Regional Unit Cost Scheme Participants

COPAC

http://www.copac.ac.uk/wzgw
Online catalogue of major University and National Libraries in the UK and Ireland

DX

www.thedx.co.uk/
Transport provider

Encore

http://asp.bibits.no/encore/wsSearch.Asp
Catalogue of performance sets in libraries

FIL

www.cilip.org.uk/groups/fil/index.html
Forum for Interlending & information delivery
An organisation for interlending and document supply personnel, run by a committee of elected members.

IFLA

www.ifla.org/III/index.htm
International Federation of Library Associations & Institutions

ILL

Inter Library Loan

InforM25

www.inform25.ac.uk/
M25 Consortium of Academic Libraries (holdings database)

ISO-ILL

An international standard for automated inter library loan

LMS

Library Management System

OCLC

www.oclc.org/about/default.htm
Provides and supports the UnityUK system in partnership with The Combined Regions 

OPAC

Online Public Access Catalogue

SCL

www.goscl.com/
Society of Chief Librarians
A local government association made up of the chief librarian of each library authority in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

SCL North West

Covers Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside

SUNCAT

www.suncat.ac.uk/
Serials Union Catalogue for the UK

TCR

www.combinedregions.com
The Combined Regions
TCR is made up of regional member organisations and works in partnership with OCLC to scope, deliver and develop the UnityUK service. 

UnityUK

www.unity-uk.com/VDXAdmin/index.html
A fully integrated ILL service for request management and catalogue searching

VIP

Visually Impaired Person

WiLL

www.londonlibraries.org.uk/will/
What's in London Libraries catalogue

WorldCat

www.worldcat.org
Search engine for online catalogues of libraries all over the world

ZUULA

www.zuula.com
Multiple search engine