UAP: Universal
Availability of Publications (UAP) has been an ideal and an objective as well
as a programme launched in 1979 by International Federation of Library
Associations and Institutions (IFLA). The International Federation of Library
Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Universal Availability of Publications
Core Activity (UAP) closed on 31st March 2003. 2012-D-P-II-Q-29
UBC: Universal
Bibliographic Control (UBC) is a program of the International Federation of
Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) to encourage national libraries,
or groups of libraries, to institute methods of recording their national
publications in a standard format launched in 1974. The IFLA Universal
Bibliographic Control is closed on 1st March 2003. 2008-D-P-II-Q-43, 2012-D-P-II-Q-29
UCC: Universal
Copyright Convention (UCC) was developed by United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as an alternative to the Berne
Convention for those states which disagreed with aspects of the Berne
Convention, but still wished to participate in some form of multilateral
copyright protection adopted in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1952. UCC revised at
Paris on July 24, 1971 and under its terms, each signatory nation extends to
foreign works the same copyright protection it gives to works published within
its territory by one of its own citizens.
UDC: Universal
Decimal Classification (UDC) is a bibliographic and library classification
system developed by the Belgian bibliographers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine
in 1905 which work as an elaborate expansion of Dewey Decimal Classification
(DDC) in which symbols are used in addition to Arabic numerals to create longer
notations, making it more flexible and precise than DDC and particularly
suitable for the classification of specialized collections. International
Federation for Information and Documentation (FID) remained for many years the
centre for the management and maintenance of UDC but from the year 1991, the
job is handed over to the UDC Consortium (UDCC). 2008-J-P-II-Q-40,
2008-D-P-II-Q-30, 2008-D-P-II-Q-43, 2010-J-P-II-Q-38, 2011-J-P-II-Q-40,
2012-D-P-II-Q-41, 2013-J-P-III-Q-54, 2013-D-P-III-Q-57, 2016-J-P-II-Q-15
UF: Used For (UF)
is a phrase indicating a term (or terms) synonymous with an authorized subject
heading or descriptor.
UGC: University
Grants Commission (UGC) of India is a statutory body set up by the Indian Union
government in accordance to the UGC Act 1956 under Ministry of Human Resource
Development, and is charged with coordination, determination and maintenance of
standards of higher education.
UMI: University
Microfilms International (UMI) was a private company responsible for publishing
Dissertation Abstracts, Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) since 1938. UMI
now trades under the name ProQuest. 2004-D-P-II-Q-46
UNAL: UNESCO Network
of Associated Libraries (UNAL) is a voluntary association of libraries sharing
the same openness of spirit. It was created in 1990 to encourage public
libraries around the world to work together and in association with United
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), to pursue
the UNESCO’s objective of combatting illiteracy, raising awareness of
environmental issues, promoting peace and establishing human rights for all,
among other priorities.
UNESCO: United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is an
inter-governmental specialized agency of the United Nations which came into
force on November 4, 1946 after ratification by 20 signatories. The UNESCO’s
permanent Headquarters is in Paris, France. 2007-J-P-II-Q-16, 2012-D-P-II-Q-34,
2015-J-P-III-Q-38
UNIMARC: Universal
Machine-Readable Cataloging (UNIMARC) is the most comprehensive version of the
MARC format for cataloguing bibliographic items first published in 1977 and is
currently developed under the sponsorship of the International Federation of
Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Universal Bibliographic Control
(UBC) and International MARC Core Activity (UBCIM) program to facilitate the
international exchange of bibliographic records between national bibliographic
agencies. 2006-J-P-II-Q-40, 2010-D-P-II-Q-9, 2014-D-P-II-Q-33
UNISIST: United Nations
International Scientific Information System (UNISIST) is a model of the social
system of communication, which consists of knowledge producers, intermediaries,
and users. The UNISIST model of information dissemination was proposed in 1971
by a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
/ International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) Central Committee created
in January 1967 to carry out the feasibility study. 2007-D-P-II-Q-16,
2008-D-P-II-Q-18, 2013-D-P-III-Q-42, 2016-J-P-II-Q-17
UNIX: UNIX was
originally spelled as UNICS with full form Uniplexed Information and Computing
Service. UNIX is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems
that derive from the original AT&T Unix, developed in the 1970s at the Bell
Labs Research Center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
2006-D-P-II-Q-45, 2007-J-P-II-Q-43
URI: Uniform Resource
Identifier (URI) is a string of characters used to identify a resource. A
Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is simply a URI that happens to point to a
physical resource over a network.
URL: Uniform
Resource Locator (URL) is a unique address of a web resource that specifies its
location on a computer network and a mechanism for retrieving it. A Uniform
Resource Name (URN) can be compared to a person's name, while a Uniform
Resource Locator (URL) can be compared to their street address. In other words,
a URN identifies an item and a URL provides a method for finding it.
2006-J-P-II-Q-3, 2012-D-P-II-Q-44, 2013-S-P-II-Q-18
URN: Uniform
Resource Name (URN) is the historical name for a Uniform Resource Identifier
(URI) that uses the urn scheme. Defined in 1997 in RFC 2141, URNs were intended
to serve as persistent, location-independent identifiers, allowing the simple
mapping of namespaces into a single URN namespace. 2014-D-P-III-Q-13
US MARC: United States
Machine Readable Cataloguing (US MARC) is a set of standards for the
representation and communication of bibliographic data and related information
in machine-readable format, originally developed and maintained for use in the
United States by the Library of Congress. US MARC superseded in 1999 by MARC 21.
2006-J-P-II-Q-40, 2013-S-P-III-Q-39
USB: Universal
Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard developed in the mid-1990s that
defines the cables, connectors and communications protocols used in a bus for
connection, communication, and power supply between computers and electronic
devices.
USENET: User's Network
(USENET) is a worldwide distributed discussion system developed from the
general-purpose Unix-to-Unix Copy (UUCP) dial-up network architecture in 1980.
2006-D-P-II-Q-44
UTLAS: University of
Toronto Library Automation Systems (UTLAS) is an integrated, distributed
library processing system, consisting of the Catalogue Support System (CATSS),
and LCMS, a stand-alone minicomputer management system. 2016-J-P-III-Q-47
UV: Ultraviolet
(UV) light is an electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength from 400 nm (750
THz) to 10 nm (30 PHz), shorter than that of visible light but longer than
X-rays.

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