| ACRL | Association of College and Research Libraries |
| AD | Associate Director |
| AI | Artificial Intelligence |
| ALA | American Library Association |
| ALI | Academic Libraries of Indiana |
| ASpace | Archives Space |
| BLC | Boston Library Consortium |
| CDM | CONTENTdm Digital Library Software |
| Collections | Collections Management Policy Group |
| Devel | Development Group |
| DevelC | Development Coordinator |
| DOI | Digital Object Identifier |
| DPLA | Digital Public Library of America |
| EC | Executive Committee |
| ED | Executive Director |
| ERM | Electronic Resource Management |
| ESC | Engaging Stakeholders Board Committee |
| FF | Future Framing |
| FSI | Future Systems Investigation |
| Fulfill | Fulfillment Advisory Group |
| FulfillC | Fulfillment Coordinator |
| ICI | Independent Colleges of Indiana |
| ICOLC | International Coalition of Library Consortia |
| IMLS | Institute for Museum and Library Services |
| INAP | Information Needs Assessment Project |
| InfoC | Information Fluency Coordinators |
| InstTech | Instructional Technology Group |
| IR | Institutional Repository |
| ISBN | International Standard Book Number |
| ISSN | International Standard Serial Number |
| KB | Knowledge Base |
| KB/LM or KBL | Knowledge Base and License Manager |
| KBLM L | Knowledge Base and License Manager Librarian |
| Lilly | Lilly Endowment Inc. |
| LPC | Library Publishing Coalition |
| LSTA | Library Services and Technology Act |
| MARC | Machine Readable Cataloging (the format that our bibliographic records live in inside the computer) |
| MCLS | Midwest Collaborative Library Services |
| MHEC | Midwest Higher Education Compact |
| NACO | Name Authority Cooperative |
| NISO | National Information Standards Organization |
| OA | Open Access |
| OCLC | Originally, Ohio College Library Center, then Online Computer Library Center (now just an acronym) |
| OCN | OCLC control number |
| OEN | Open Education Network |
| OER | Open Educational Resource |
| OJS | Open Journal Systems |
| ORCID | Open Researcher and Contributor IDentifier |
| OTL | Open Textbook Library |
| OUP | Oxford University Press |
| PALCI | Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation |
| PALNI | Private Academic Library Network of Indiana |
| PALNIDir | PALNI Directors Wiki |
| PALReads | PALNI Book Club for Professional Reading |
| PALSave | Consortial Affordable Learning Program |
| PALShare | Consortial Material Sharing Program |
| PDAT | PALNI Digital Admin Team (CONTENTdm) |
| RAC | Resource Advisory Committee (part of ALI) |
| RIO | Reference Instruction Outreach Advisory Group |
| ROI | Return on Investment (Board Committee) |
| SCD | Scholarly Communications Director |
| ScholComm | Scholarly Communications Advisory Group |
| SLA | Service Level Agreement |
| SOW | Statement of Work |
| SR | Service Request (OCLC) |
| SRCS | Indiana's Statewide Remote Circulation System |
| Staff C&C | Staffing Capacity and Coordination Board Committee |
| StratComm | Strategic Communications Director |
| VIVA | Virginia’s Academic Library Consortium |
| WCD | WorldCat Discovery |
| WMS | WorldShare Management System (by OCLC) |
| WMSW | WMS Workflows Group |