The SDC sponsored participants are learning ABCD - Library Automation Software in the Short-term / Attachment Training Programme at NISCAIR (on 13-14 Oct. 2011). ABCD, as an integrated package for library automation (both traditional but also digital/virtual libraries !) and a tool for documentation centers, is the culmination of several technologies developed by BIREME (OPS/PAHO, Brazil). The package contains an advanced database management (both creation/definition and data-entry/cataloging) module, an OPAC integrated into a 'library portal' page with meta-search functionality for either local or remote databases (iAH), a Serials Control module (SeCS), a module for Circulation and Statistics, a Thesaurus Manager and - to be added later - an Acquisition module. The software heavily relies on ISIS-database technology (developed by UNESCO).
ABCD is the acronym for a software suite for the automation of libraries and documentation centres. In Spanish this is, in full 'Automatisación de Bibliotécas y Centros de Documentación', which keeps the same acronym valid also for French (Automation des Bibliothèques et Centres de Documentacion) or Portugese (Automatização das Bibliotecas e dos Centros de Documentação). Even in other non-latin languages, with some slight but quite acceptable variations, -e.g. Dutch : 'Automatisering van Bibliotheken en Centra voor Documentatie' -the acronym can still be maintained.
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