LA: Library
Association (LA) was the leading library association in the United Kingdom,
founded in 1877. In April 2002, LA merged with the Institute of Information
Scientists (IIS) to form the Chartered Institute of Library and Information
Professionals (CILIP). 2008-J-P-II-Q-2, 2008-D-P-II-Q-6, 2008-D-P-II-Q-32,
2009-D-P-II-Q-40, 2010-J-P-II-Q-5
LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) is an
archetypal model of web service solution stacks. LAMP named as an acronym of
the names of its original four open-source components: the Linux operating system,
the Apache HTTP Server, the MySQL relational database management system
(RDBMS), and the PHP programming language. 2013-J-P-III-Q-16
LAN: Local Area
Network (LAN) is a computer communications network restricted to a relatively
small geographic area, often within a single building or group of adjacent
buildings such as a college, university, or corporate campus, consisting of at
least one server, client, a network operating system, and a communications
link.
LARRDIS: Parliament
Library and Reference, Research, Documentation and Information Service
(LARRDIS) is a library for the exclusive use of members of the Central
Legislative Assembly which was set up in 1921. 2015-J-P-III-Q-19
LC MARC: Library of
Congress Machine-Readable Cataloging (LC MARC) is a standard of digital formats
for the description of items catalogued by libraries first developed by
Henriette Davidson Avram working with the Library of Congress in the 1960s.
2013-S-P-III-Q-39
LCC: Library of
Congress Classification (LCC) is a system of classifying books and other
library materials. George
Herbert Putnam invented Putnam Classification System in 1897 that forms
the basis of the Library of Congress Classification (LCC), just before he
assumed the librarianship of Congress. Later on LCC is developed by James C.M.
Hanson. The
system divides all knowledge into twenty-one basic classes, each identified by
a single letter of the alphabet. 2010-J-P-II-Q-38, 2011-J-P-II-Q-40
LCCN: Library of
Congress Control Number (LCCN) is a serially based system of numbering cataloguing
records in the Library of Congress in the United States for identification and
control.
LCD: Liquid-crystal
Display (LCD) is an electronic visual display that uses the light-modulating
properties of liquid crystals that consume less power than a conventional
light-emitting monitor and occupies less space.
LCSH: Library of
Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) is the complete alphabetic list of controlled
vocabulary created by cataloguers and used in cataloguing since 1906 at the
Library of Congress in assigning subject headings to facilitate access to the
information content of newly published works. The development of Library of
Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) took place under the initiative of J.C.M.
Hanson. 2012-D-P-II-Q-41
LIPHIS: LInked PHrase
Indexing System (LIPHIS) is a system of computer-assisted permuted subject
indexing developed by Timothy C. Craven in 1978. 2014-J-P-III-Q-12
LIS Links: Library and
Information Science Links (LIS Links) is the India's first and largest social
networking platform for the Library and Information Science professionals,
designed and developed by Badan Barman on 26th February, 2008.
LIS: Library and
Information Science (LIS) is a discipline that concerned with the body of
knowledge relating to the origin, storage, retrieval, transmission and
utilization of information. Library and Information Science (LIS) is the
academic and professional study of how information and information carriers are
produced, disseminated, discovered, evaluated, selected, acquired, used,
organized, maintained, and managed.
LISA: Library and
Information Science Abstracts (LISA) is an international abstracting and
indexing service published from 1950 that covers bibliographic information
about past and present developments in librarianship, information science,
online retrieval, publishing and information technology. LISA was previously
published by Bowker-Saur Limited, London (RELX Group) and then by monthly by
the Library Association of Great Britain and cover 440 periodicals from more
than 68 countries and in more than 20 different languages. 2004-D-P-II-Q-43, 2005-J-P-II-Q-26,
2012-D-P-II-Q-41
LISWiki: Library and
Information Science Wiki (LISWIKI) is an online open encyclopaedia in Library
and Information Science developed in a wiki platform. LISWiki.com was founded
by John Hubbard in 2005.
LMS: Learning
Management System (LMS) is an integrated set of online applications providing access
to course assignments and materials, tests and test results, e-discussion and
chat space, and other features in support of education, particularly in
colleges and universities for e-learning courses or program.
Loc. cit.: Loco Citato
(Loc. cit.) is a Latin abbreviation meaning "in the place cited". It
is a footnote or endnote term used to repeat the title and page number for a
given work (and author). In simple, Loc. cit. is used in place of ibid. when
the reference is not only to the work immediately preceding, but also refers to
the same page. 2005-J-P-II-Q-23, 2011-D-P-II-Q-42, 2012-J-P-III-Q-61
LoC: Library of
Congress (LoC) is the research library that officially serves the United States
Congress, but also the de facto national library of the United States
established in 1800 in the Washington, D.C.. It is the second largest library
of the world after the British Library.
LOCKSS: Lots of Copies
Keeps Stuff Safe (LOCKSS) is a project under the auspices of Stanford
University started in 1998 for a peer-to-peer network that develops and
supports an open source system allowing libraries to collect, preserve and
provide their readers with access to material published on the Web. The project
aim at creating application to create low-cost, persistent digital "caches”
of electronic journal articles, housed locally at institutions that have
authorized access to the content and elect to preserve it. 2014-D-P-III-Q-11,
2016-J-P-III-Q-20
LOEX: Library
Orientation Exchange (LOEX) is a "library outreach" office
established in 1971 at Eastern Michigan State University with the aid of a
grant from the Council on Library Resources (CLR) and the National Endowment
for the Humanities (NEH) that served as clearinghouse for bibliographic
instruction materials and resources on library instruction.
LTP: Library
Technology Project (LTP) is a program of the American Library Association (ALA)
to test relatively inexpensive materials and equipment formed on May 1, 1959.
2013-S-P-III-Q-19
LZW:
Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) is a universal lossless data compression algorithm
created by Abraham Lempel, Jacob Ziv, and Terry Welch. It was published by
Welch in 1984 as an improved implementation of the LZ78 algorithm published by
Lempel and Ziv in 1978.

No comments:
Post a Comment