Acronym annoyances: (why do we insist on using them?)
Library related acronyms
(you would think we would know better…)
PDA – Patron Driven Acquisitions
Also means
PDA – Public Display of Affection
PDA – Personal Data Assistant
PDA – Personal Desktop Assistant
PDA – Patent Ductus Arteriosus (medical term)
PDA – Parenteral Drug Association (company)
DDA – Demand Driven Acquisitions
Also means
DDA – Downtown Development Authority
DDA – Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment (in video games)
DDA – Digital Differential Analyzer (algorithms for graphics and robotics)
DDA – Discrete Dipole Approximation (science term)
DOI – Digital Object Identifier
Also means
DOI – Department of the Interior
DOI – Division of Interest
DOI – Direction of Investment
DOI – Date of Invoice
DOI – Died of Injuries
DOI – Date of Image
ILL – Inter Library Loan
Also means
ILL – Internet Leased Lines
ILL – Illumination
ILL – I Love Life / I Love Lucy
ILL – Iliolumbar Ligament (medical term)
ILL – 3 letter abbreviation for the state of Illinois
ILL – to be sick
ESL – English as a Second Language
Also means
ESL – Electronic Sports League
ESL – Elementary School Level
ESL – Enterprise Systems Library
ESL – Exit Stage Left
ESL – Engine Speed Limit
Technology related acronyms
(They are everywhere…RUN!!)
DSL – Digital Subscriber Line
Also means
DSL – Désolé (French for Sorry)
DSL – Direct Satellite Link
DSL – Diesel
DSL – Domain Specific Language
DSL – Department of Student Life
DSL – Down Stage Left
ASP – Active Server Pages
Also means
ASP – Application Service Provider
ASP – American Society of Primatologists
ASP – Advanced Sterilization Products (company)
ASP – Appalachia Service Project (community support project)
ASP – Associate Safety Professional (job title)
ASP – Average Selling Price
ASP – A breed of poisonous snake
You could be an Associate Safety Professional working for the American Society of Primatologists purchasing Advanced Sterilization Products at their Average Selling Price via Active Server Pages.
OR
An ASP working for ASP purchasing ASPs at their ASP via ASPs.
Feel free to Google any acronym you want just include the word acronym with it…you will get entire huge lists of what each one may mean. Or just go find one of these “Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary” at your local library.
Before this goes on into eternity I’m going to say … ahem…
I am sincerely DSL but before I become ILL and or possibly DOI I shall ESL past the ASP like nature of this topic so TTFN.