Library lingo

[Junus, Ranti]

A discussion in another mailing list got me to ask this question:

Does anybody has a program reaching out to faculty, students, or general public to understand library lingo.  You know, that OPAC (O-whaat?), Indexes (students I talked to think it's only refers to the back of a text book), Databases (Computer Science students scratched they heads because their understanding is about raw data, not articles), Journal (and they think it means "diary")... stuff like that.   Yes, I am aware of the list created by  John Kupersmith (http://www.jkup.net/terms.html), but is there anybody willing to share how they reach out to the people that probably never come to the library, yet use the web site quite frequently?

thanks,
ranti.

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Ranti Junus - Systems
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