Last year’s away day actions recommended that we “develop a jargon list of terms to help international students to understand commonly used library terminology”. Di, Graham and I have begun to create a list of terms L&LR use which probably confuse many students, international or not.
Below is a list of (possibly) confusing synonyms and jargon words but there are probably more, so please let us know them!
Thank you
Judith
Issue/return or check in/check out or self-issue/return or self-service
Inter-Library Loans or ILLs or Illos or SED
Horizon or library management system or HIP
Catalogue or Horizon or ipac or opac
Call number or book number or shelf mark or class mark or Dewey number
Athens or Shibboleth or devolved authentication
Journals or magazines
Help desk or enquiry desk or library desk or library counter or IT desk
Portal
PALs
e-library
Electronic Journals A to Z
