| Acronyms | Expansion | Link |
|---|---|---|
| AA | Academic Affairs, a.k.a. Provost Office | http://aa.ufl.edu/about-the-office/staff/ |
| AAEA | American Agricultural Economics Association | https://www.aeaweb.org/resources |
| AAL | Association of Architectural Librarians | https://www.architecturelibrarians.org/ |
| AALL | American Association of Law Librarians | https://www.aallnet.org/ |
| AASL | Association of Architecture School Librarians | https://www.architecturelibrarians.org/ |
| AAU | Association of American Universities | https://www.aau.edu/ |
| ABA | American Bookseller Association | https://www.bookweb.org/ |
| ACRL | Association of College and Research Libraries | https://www.ala.org/acrl/ |
| ACS | American Chemical Society | https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en.html |
| ACURIL | Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries | https://acuril.org/ |
| ADA | Americans with Disabilities Act | www.ada.gov |
| Admin Memo | Administrative Memoranda to Deans, Directors and Department chairs | https://administrativememo.ufl.edu/ |
| AERA | American Educational Research Association | https://www.aera.net/ |
| AFA | Architecture and Fine Arts Library | https://afa.uflib.ufl.edu/ |
| AIIM | Association for Information and Image Management | https://www.aiim.org/ |
| AJL | American Jewish Libraries | https://jewishlibraries.org/ |
| ALA | American Library Association | https://www.ala.org/ |
| ALF | Auxiliary Library Facility | |
| ALL | Alachua Library League | https://attend.aclib.us/event/3243060 |
| ALSNA | Art Librarians Society of North America | https://www.arlisna.org/ |
| APDU | Association for Public Data Users | https://www.apdu.org/ |
| ARL | Association of Research Libraries | https://www.arl.org/ |
| ARMA | Association of Records Managers and Administrators | https://www.arma.org/ |
| ASA | African Studies Association | https://africanstudies.org/ |
| ASEE | American Society for Engineering Education | https://www.asee.org/ |
| ASERL | Association of Southeastern Research Libraries | https://www.aserl.org/ |
| ASIS | American Society for Information Science | https://www.ala.org/aboutala/affiliates/affiliates/asist |
| AT | Academic Technology | https://www.at.ufl.edu/service-teams/ |
| BCALA | Black Caucus of American Library Association | https://www.bcala.org/about-bcala |
| BEC | Building Emergency Coordinator | https://emergency.ufl.edu/programs/building-emergency-coordinators/ |
| BOG | Florida Board of Governors | https://www.flbog.edu/ |
| BOT | Board of Trustees | https://trustees.ufl.edu/ |
| CAF | Candidate Assessment Form | https://hr.uflib.ufl.edu/wordpress/files/2020/04/SampleCAFEuropeanStudiesLibrarian.pdf |
| CAMP | Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CRL) | https://www.crl.edu/programs/camp |
| CCLA | College Center for Library Automation | https://www.niso.org/niso-io/college-center-library-automation-floridas-lincc-public-colleges |
| CFO | Chief Financial Officer | https://cfo.ufl.edu |
| CIO | Chief Information Officer | https://it.ufl.edu/about/ |
| CITT | Center for Instructional Technology and Training | https://citt.ufl.edu/ |
| CLIR | Council on Library and Information Resources | https://www.clir.org/ |
| CNI | Coalition for Networked Information | https://www.cni.org/ |
| CNS | Central Networking Services | https://net-services.ufl.edu/about/ |
| CONSER | Cooperative Online Serials Project | https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/conser/about/aboutcn1.html |
| CRL | Center for Research Libraries | https://www.crl.edu/ |
| CSUL | Council of State University Libraries | http://www.csul.net/ |
| DEIJA | Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, and Accessibility | |
| DLF | Digital Library Federation | https://www.diglib.org/ |
| DRC | Disability Resource Center | https://disability.ufl.edu/ |
| DSR | Division of Sponsored Research | https://research.ufl.edu/dsp.html |
| DSS | Digital Support Services | https://digital.uflib.ufl.edu/ |
| EAB | Educational Advisory Board | https://education.ufl.edu/educational-technology/advisory-board/ |
| EAP | Employee Assistance Program | https://www.eap.ufl.edu/ |
| ECOB | East Campus Office Building | https://campusmap.ufl.edu/#/index/1628 |
| EDI | Equity, Diversity and Inclusion | |
| EEP | Employee Education Program | https://learn-and-grow.hr.ufl.edu/education-programs/employee-education-program/ |
| E-Learning | UF online course/learning management system | https://elearning.ufl.edu/ |
| ES | Enterprise Systems | https://es.ufl.edu/ |
| F&A | Division of Finance and Accounting | https://www.fa.ufl.edu/ |
| FA | Funding Alert | https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/c.php?g=147666&p=966331 |
| FALSC | Florida Academic Library Services Cooperative | https://libraries.flvc.org/ |
| FARs | Faculty Assignment Form | https://www.fa.ufl.edu/directives/faculty-assignment-reports/ |
| FEO | Faculty Enhancement Opportunity | https://hr.uflib.ufl.edu/current-employees/faculty-affairs/feo/ |
| FERPA | Family Education Records and Privacy Act | https://registrar.ufl.edu/ferpa/ |
| FLA | Florida Library Association | https://www.flalib.org/ |
| FLVC | Florida Virtual Campus | https://www.flvc.org/ |
| FLW | Florida Library Webinars | https://floridalibrarywebinars.org |
| GatorLink | User accounts at UF | https://one.ufl.edu/login/student |
| GAU | Grants Activity Update | https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/c.php?g=147666&p=966331 |
| GODORT | Government Documents Round Table | https://www.ala.org/rt/godort |
| HelpDesk | UF Computing Help Desk | https://helpdesk.ufl.edu/ |
| HSCL | Health Science Center Library | https://library.health.ufl.edu/ |
| IDEA | Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility | |
| IEP | Institutional Effectiveness Plan | https://assessment.aa.ufl.edu/assessment--accreditation-/institutional-effectiveness/ |
| IFAS | Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences | https://ifas.ufl.edu/ |
| IFLA | International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions | https://www.ifla.org/ |
| IFRT | Intellectual Freedom Round Table | https://www.ala.org/rt/ifrt |
| IPay | University web payment (ECommerce) gateway | https://www.fa.ufl.edu/directives/accepting-credit-card-payments-via-ecommerce-internet/ |
| ISO | Information Security Officer | https://security.ufl.edu/ |
| JCLC | Joint Council of Librarians of Color | https://www.jclcinc.org/ |
| LACC | Latin American and Caribbean Collection | https://lacc.uflib.ufl.edu/ |
| LDEP | Libraries Disaster and Emergency Planning | https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/disaster |
| LIBCAL | Library Calendar (events) | https://libcal.uflib.ufl.edu/ |
| LIBGUIDE | Library Guides | https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/ |
| LIC | Legal Information Center | https://guides.law.ufl.edu/website/home |
| LITA | Library and Information Technology Association | https://www.ala.org/lita/ |
| LLAMA | Library Leadership Administration and Management Association | https://www.ala.org/llama/ |
| LOEX | National Library Orientation Instruction Exchange | https://www.loex.org/resources.php |
| LTP | Library Training Program | https://training.uflib.ufl.edu/ |
| LTS | Library Technology Services | https://lts.uflib.ufl.edu/ |
| MLA | Medical Library Association | https://www.mlanet.org/ |
| MLA | Music Library Association | https://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/ |
| MOU | Memorandum of Understanding | |
| MOUG | Music OCLC Users Group | https://musicoclcusers.org/ |
| myUFL | UF Portal | https://my.ufl.edu/ps/signon.html |
| NASIG | North American Serials Interest Group | https://nasig.org/ |
| NEFLIN | Northeast Florida Library Information Network | https://neflin.org/ |
| NEH | National Endowment for the Humanities | https://www.neh.gov/ |
| NEO | New Employee Orientation | https://welcome.hr.ufl.edu/getting-started/orientation/new-employee-orientation/ |
| ODLOS | Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services (ALA) | https://www.ala.org/advocacy/diversity/continuing-education/webinars |
| ONE.UF | Integrated Student Information System | https://one.uf.edu/ |
| P&T | Promotion and Tenure | http://aa.ufl.edu/policies/tenure-and-promotion-information/ |
| PCard | Purchasing Credit Card | https://procurement.ufl.edu/uf-departments/procurement-cards-pcards/ |
| PD | Position Description | https://hr.uflib.ufl.edu/current-employees/recruitment/teams-usps-resources/ |
| PD | Professional Development | |
| PDTC | Professional Development Travel Committee | https://committees.uflib.ufl.edu/committees/travel/ |
| PVA | Position vacancy announcement | |
| RASD | Reference and Adult Services Division | https://www.ala.org/rusa/about/history/rasdhistory2 |
| RBMS | Rare Books and Manuscripts Section | https://rbms.info/ |
| RCM | Responsibility Centered Management | https://administrativememo.ufl.edu/2011/03/responsibility-center-management-rcm-manual-updated/ |
| RLG | Research Libraries Group, Inc. | https://www.rlg.org/ |
| RLIN | Research Libraries Information Network | |
| SAA | Society of American Archivists | https://www2.archivists.org/aboutsaa |
| SACS | Southern Association of Colleges and Schools | https://sacscoc.org/ |
| SALALM | Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials | https://salalm.org/ |
| SASC | Special and Area Studies Collections | https://sasc.uflib.ufl.edu/ |
| SEFLIN | Southeast Florida Library Information Network | https://seflin.org/members/ |
| SELA | Southeastern Library Association | https://www.selaonline.org/ |
| SFA | Society of Florida Archivists | http://www.florida-archivists.org/ |
| SLA | Special Libraries Association | https://www.sla.org/ |
| SLS | Software Licensing Services | https://software.ufl.edu/ |
| SOLINET | Southeastern Library Network, Inc | |
| SOP | Strategic Opportunities Program | https://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/funding/strategicopportunitiesgrantprogram |
| SPARC | Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition | https://sparcopen.org/ |
| SUS | State University System of Florida | https://www.flbog.edu/ |
| SWFLN | Southwest Florida Library Network | https://swfln.org/ |
| TBLC | Tampa Bay Library Consortium | https://tblc.org/ |
| T&P | Tenure and Promotion | http://aa.ufl.edu/policies/tenure-and-promotion-information/ |
| TNT | Office of the Associate Provost for Teaching and Technology | https://tnt.aa.ufl.edu/ |
| UAA | University Athletic Association | https://floridagators.com/ |
| UF | University of Florida | https://www.ufl.edu/ |
| UF Terminology | University of Florida Terminology (more acronyms) | https://tnt.aa.ufl.edu/uf-terminology/ |
| UFCC | The University of Florida Campaign for Charities | https://ufcc.ufl.edu/ |
| UFF | University of Florida Foundation, Inc. | https://www.uff.ufl.edu/ |
| UFF | United Faculty of Florida | https://myuff.org/ |
| UFHR | University of Florida Human Resources | https://hr.ufl.edu/ |
| UFID | University of Florida identification number | https://identity.it.ufl.edu/process/uf-identifier/ |
| UFIT | UF Information Technology | https://it.ufl.edu/ |
| UFRF | University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. | https://research.ufl.edu/ufrf.html |
| UPD | University of Florida Police Department | https://police.ufl.edu/ |
| Web Services | UF Web Services | https://webservices.it.ufl.edu/ |
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