Academic unit — refers to Academic Affairs, academic departments and programs, Centers, Institutes, Institutions and Organized Research Units, Schools and Divisions, and Colleges.

Avanti — library service that provides articles delivered electronically to your desktop.

Browser — software, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape, used to view sites on the Web.

Campus unit — see Academic Unit

Departmental Business Officers (DBOs) — see Management Services Officers

Desktop delivery — delivery of scanned articles owned by another UC library for academic use.

Digitizing (text, images, or slides) — see Scanning

Ethernet — a local-area network (LAN) protocol.

Fee-based, Fee-for-service — see Recharge

General-Use Classroom — classrooms and lecture halls under the jurisdiction of the Registrar for the primary purpose of housing regularly scheduled classroom instruction.

IFIS — UCSD's central financial system. IFIS contains integrated processes and applications that support the administration of UCSD's financial data.

Index number — number indicating which departmental budget line to charge an expense.

Management Services Officers (MSOs) — responsible for long-range planning, coordinating, organizing, staffing, and supervising in the areas of budget, contract and grant administration, academic and staff personnel administration, purchasing, expenditure control, space utilization, building and equipment security and maintenance, and other services that support a teaching, research, clinical, or administrative function of the campus. Sometimes referred to as Departmental Business Officers (DBOs).

Recharge — the process by which UCSD departments pay each other for goods and services. Some campus departments offer goods and services on either full or partial recharge basis.

Scanning — the process by which a device (a scanner) converts analog text or images to digital (machine-readable) form. The resulting digital file can be posted on or linked to an instructional Web site. (Note: due to the open accessibility of the Web, ensuring copyright compliance for digitized material, in the context of educational use provisions, is of utmost importance.)

Server — computer or device on a network which manages network resources.

Web hosting (Web site hosting, hosting) — housing, serving, and maintaining files for one or more Web sites.

For technology terms, a good reference source is Webopedia, an online dictionary and search engine (www.webopedia.com/).

For UCSD-specific terms, please refer to the glossary feature within Blink (blink.ucsd.edu).

Computer Repair and Installation
consulting services
Desktop Support
helpline telephone numbers
Instructional WWW Development Center (IWDC)
Software Distribution
Web site Search function

accounts, computing

setup of

account slips, student
articles, desktop delivery. See Desktop delivery of articles
Ask a Librarian services
audio. See Digital Audio Reserves (DAR)
audiovisual equipment
Avanti

book reserves
borrowing materials

California Digital Library (CDL)

checking out library materials
Circuit. See San Diego Circuit
"class-in-a-box" software
Classroom Technology chart. See Technology-Enhanced Classroom chart
computer accounts

instructors and teaching assistants
students

computer-based classroom and lecture hall presentations
computer problems, reporting

hardware
labs
network
printers

computers, office

repair of

computing resources, departmental and campus
Course Information (CINFO) form
course reserves
course Web pages
creating a "PIN,"

media. See Digital Media Reserves (DMR)
Media Center
Media Services

Technology-Enhanced Classroom chart
contact numbers
orders

Melvyl®. See Request
Music. See Digital Audio Reserves (DAR)

Network Operations (NetOps)
network username, UCSD

potential uses of
registering for

office computers, support for
online reference materials
Online Reference Shelf
online UCSD Libraries catalog. See ROGER catalog
overhead projectors

password. See network username, UCSD
"PIN." See Creating a "PIN"
placing books on reserve
placing electronic text on reserve
Popmail account
presentation equipment

reserving

projection equipment
projection equipment problems, reporting

research computing facilities
reserving presentation equipment
response systems, Student. See Student response systems
ROGER catalog
ROGER Request
room scheduling

Sage
San Diego Circuit
San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)

Academic Associates Program (SDSC AAP)

scanning. See Instructional WWW Development Center
self-serve equipment
software

"class-in-a-box"
distribution of
installation and configuring of
requests for via Course Information form (CINFO) form

Step1 Guides for students
student response systems
subject specialists

UC-eLinks
UCSD Web site

video

production services
streaming. See Webcast

videoconferencing
videotape duplication
Virtual Private Network (VPN)