| Acronym | Extended Version | URL |
| AA | Academic Assembly | http://www.library.cornell.edu/staffweb/AcadAssem/AA.html |
| AAD | Alumni Affairs and Development | http://www.alumni.cornell.edu/ |
| ACRL | Association of College and Research Libraries | http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/ |
| ACTS | Advisory Council on Technical Services | http://lts.library.cornell.edu/lts/who/com/acts/ |
| ALA | American Library Association | http://www.ala.org/ |
| ARL | Association of Research Libraries | http://www.arl.org/ |
| ASTECH | Associated Science and Technology | http://astech.library.cornell.edu/ |
| BIG | Business Information Group | http://www.library.cornell.edu/staffweb/IRPC/BIG/ |
| CAT | CUL Administrative Team | |
| CDexec | Collection Development Executive Committee | |
| CIDC | Cornell Institute for Digital Collections (Disbanded) | |
| CF&PC | Capital Funding and Priorities Committee | |
| CIP | Center for Innovative Publishing | http://cip.cornell.edu/webdocs/ |
| CISER | Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research | http://www.ciser.cornell.edu/ |
| CIT | Cornell Information Technologies | http://www.cit.cornell.edu/ |
| CL3 | Cornell Library Collaborative Learning Computer Laboratory | http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/creationstation/uris.htm |
| COL | Council of Librarians | |
| CRIO | Collections, Reference, Instruction and Outreach | http://crio.library.cornell.edu/ |
| CTS | Central Technical Services (Disbanded) | |
| CUL | Cornell University Library | http://www.library.cornell.edu/ |
| CULAC | Cornell University Library Advisory Council | |
| DC | Dublin Core | http://dublincore.org/ |
| DCAPS | Digital Consulting and Production Services (Disbanded) | |
| DCDP | Digital Content Delivery Platforms | http://dcdp.library.cornell.edu/dp/ |
| DLF | Digital Library Federation | http://diglib.org/ |
| DLIT | Digital Library and Information Technologies | http://www.library.cornell.edu/dlit/ |
| DSS | Discovery Systems and Services | |
| Dspace | Digital Space | http://www.dspace.org/ |
| DMG | Digital Media Group | http://dcaps.library.cornell.edu/profiles/#dmg |
| DPMW | Digital Preservation Management Workshop | http://www.library.cornell.edu/iris/dpworkshop/ |
| DPubS | Digital Publishing System | http://dpubs.org/ |
| DRC | Database Review Committee | |
| EBSCO | Elton B. Stephens Company (online bibliographic and full text databases) | http://www2.ebsco.com/ |
| ecommons | Electronic Commons | http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu |
| ERC | Electronic Resources Committee | http://lts.library.cornell.edu/lts/who/com/erc/index.cfm |
| FABIT | Faculty Advisory Board on Information Technologies | http://www.cit.cornell.edu/fabit/ |
| FAL | Fine Arts Library | http://www.library.cornell.edu/finearts/ |
| FEDORA | Flexible and Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture | http://www.fedora.info/ |
| GIS | Geographic Information Systems | http://www.gis.com/ |
| ILL | Interlibrary Loan | http://www.library.cornell.edu/services/ils.html |
| ILR | Industrial and Labor Relations | http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/ |
| ILS | Interlibrary Services | http://www.library.cornell.edu/services/ils.html |
| IMG | IRIS Management Group (Disbanded) | |
| IMLS | Institute of Museum and Library Services | http://www.imls.gov/index.shtm |
| IR | Institutional Repositories | |
| IRIS | Instruction, Research, and Information Services (Disbanded) | |
| IS | Information Science | |
| ITEC | Information Technology Executive Committee | |
| ITS | Information Technology Services | http://www.mann.cornell.edu/about/staff/informationtechnologyservices.cfm |
| ITSO | Integrated Tool for Selection and Ordering | |
| ITTS | Information Technology and Technical Services | http://www.library.cornell.edu/dlit/ITTS/ |
| JSTOR | Scholarly Journal Archive ("Journal Storage") | |
| KMODDL | Kinematic Models for Digital Design Library | http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/ |
| LHR | Library Human Resources | http://www.library.cornell.edu/Adminops/libhumres/ |
| LMT | Library Management Team | http://campusgw.library.cornell.edu/about/admin.html |
| LTEF | Library Technology Exchange Forum | http://www.library.cornell.edu/ltef/ |
| LSDI | Large Scale Digitization Initiative | |
| LTS | Library Technical Services | http://lts.library.cornell.edu/lts/ |
| MARC | Machine Readable Cataloging | http://www.loc.gov/marc/ |
| MLA | Medical Library Association | http://www.mlanet.org/ |
| MMT | MyContents Maintenance Team | |
| MWG | Metadata Working Group | http://metadata-wg.mannlib.cornell.edu/ |
| NEH | National Endowment for the Humanities | http://www.neh.gov/ |
| NSDL | National Science Digital Library | http://nsdl.org/ |
| NYLINK | New York Link | http://www.nylink.com/ |
| NYSHEI | New York State Higher Education Initiative | http://www.nyshei.org/ |
| OCLC | Online Computer Library Center | http://www.oclc.org/ |
| OKU | Olin, Kroch, Uris | http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ |
| OPAC | Online Public Access Catalog | |
| PCAC | Public Computing Advisory Committee (Public Services) | http://publicservices.library.cornell.edu/psa/pcac/index.cfm |
| PCARD | Procurement Card | |
| PCM | Preservation Collection Maintenance | http://www.library.cornell.edu/preservation/ |
| PEDL | Position Employee Data Lookup | |
| PSA | Public Services and Assessment | |
| PSAMG | Public Services and Assessment Managers Group (Disbanded) | |
| PSEC | Public Services Executive Committee | http://publicservices.library.cornell.edu/psa/index.cfm |
| PSL | Physical Sciences Library | |
| RAU | Research and Assessment Unit | http://library.cornell.edu/iris/research/index.html |
| ReDS | Resource Discovery System Working Group | http://lts.library.cornell.edu/lts/who/com/reds/index.cfm |
| RLG | Research Libraries Group | http://www.rlg.org/ |
| RLIN | Research Libraries Information Network | |
| RMC | Rare and Manuscript Collections | http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ |
| SAA | Society of American Archivists | http://www.archivists.org/ |
| SCRLC | South Central Regional Library Council | http://www.lakenet.org/ |
| SLA | Special Library Association | http://www.sla.org/ |
| SLAC | Student Library Advisory Council | |
| SLG | Subject Libraries Group | |
| TSEG | Technical Services Executive Group | |
| UCPL | University Computer Policy and Law | http://ucpl.cornell.edu/ |
| URL | Web Address ("Uniform Resource Locator") | |
| VIVO | Virtual Life Sciences Library | http://vivo.library.cornell.edu/ |
| WCMC | Weill Cornell Medical College | http://www.med.cornell.edu/ |
| WGC | Working Group on Cataloging | http://lts.library.cornell.edu/lts/who/com/wgc/index.cfm |