Abbreviations for Commissions, Governmental Agencies, Trade Programs and Projects, Trade and Associated Firms and Organizations appearing in database records
ABA American Booksellers Assn
ABAC Antiquarian Booksellers Assn of Canada
ABC Audit Bureau of Circulations -- see also CCAB
ABPBC Assn of Book Publishers of British Columbia (formerly BCPG)
ACALJ Assn Can pour l'Avancement de la Littérature de Jeunesse
ACB Assn canadienne des bibliothèques (CLA/ACB)
ACB Assn of Canadian Bookmen
ACBLF Assn canadienne des bibliothécaires de langue français (becomes ASTED)
ACDL Assn canadienne de diffusion du livre
ACELF Assn can des Éducateurs de Langue Française
ACP Assn of Canadian Publishers
ACS Assn for Canadian Studies
ACTRA Assn of Canadian Television & Radio Artists
ACUP Assn of Canadian University Presses
ADELF Assn des distributeurs exclusifs de livres en langue française
AEC Assn des éditeurs canadiens
AECB/AELC Assn for the Export of Can Books/ Assn pour l'export des livres canadiens
AEIE Agence d'examen de l'investissement étranger -- see FIRA
AEPCQ Assn des éditeurs de périodiques culturels québécois
AIGA American Institute of Graphic Artists
AIPULF Assn internationale des presses universitaires de langue français
ALQ Assn des libraires du Québec
AMI Assn des Maîtres-Imprimeurs
APA Alberta Publishers Assn; Atlantic Publishers Assn
APCF Assn de Périodiques Canadien-français
APQU Atlantic Provinces Booksellers Assn
APUQ see AQPU
AQPU Assn québécoise de presses universitaires
ASP Assn of Small Presses
ASTED Assn pour l'avancement des sciences & des techniques de la
documentation (formerly ACBLF)
AUCC Assn of Universities & Colleges Council/ Assn des universités & collèges du Canada
AUPELF Assn des universités partiéllement ou entièrement de langue française
BBS British Book Services
BCBA British Columbia Booksellers Assn
BCP Bibliothèques centrales de prêt
BCPG British Columbia Publishers Group (now ABPBC)
BeJo Berkeley/Jove
BMA Book Manufacturers Assn -- see CBMA
BMOC Book-of-the-Month Club
BN Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
BNQ Bibliothèque nationale du Québec
BPAC Book Publishers Assn of Canada (div of CBPC)
BPDC Book & Periodical Development Council
BPDP Book Publishing Development Program
BPEA Business Press Editors' Assn
BPEC Book Promotion & Editorial Club (now BPPA)
BPPA Book Publishers Professional Assn (formerly BPEC)
BPW Banff Publishing Workshops
BWAC Book Wholesalers Assn of Canada
CAA Canadian Authors Assn
CACL Can Assn of Children's Librarians
CACUL Canadian Assn of Colleges & University Librarians
CACUP Canadian Assn of College & University Printers
CANSCAIP Canadian Society of Children's Authors, Illustrators & Performers
CAPAC Composers, Authors, Publishers Assn of Can
CAPER Canadian Assn of Publishers Educational Representatives
CAPPE Canadian Assn of Personnel Publications Editors -- see CIEA
CB Les Centrales des bibliothèques
CBA Canadian Booksellers Assn
CBIC Canadian Book Information Centre (div of ACP)
CBMA Canadian Book Manufacturers Assn
CBP Canadian Business Press
CBPC Canadian Book Publishers Council
CBPRA-W Canadian Book Publishers Representatives - West
CBW Canadian Book Wholesale
CC Canada Council
CCA Canadian Conference of the Arts
CCAB Can Circulations Audit Bureau/ l'Office can de vérification de la diffusion
CCI Canadian Copyright Institute
CCL Comité consultatif du livre
CCP Copp Clark Pitman
CDLCF Centre de diffusion du livre canadien-français
CEPG Canadian Educational Publishers Group (CBPC)
CFA Compensation for Authors
CGAA Canadian Graphic Arts Assn (now GAIA)
CIDA Can International Development Agency
CIEA Can Industrial Editors Assn
CIRF Centre d'information et de reference pour femmes
CLA/ACB Canadian Library Assn/ Assn canadienne des bibliothèques
CLEA Canadian Library Exhibitors Assn
CLMC Canadian Learning Materials Centre
CLUF Centre de diffusion de livres universitaires de langue française
CMPA Canadian Magazine Publishers Assn
COSMEP Committee of Small Magazine Editors & Publishers
CPPA Canadian Periodical Press Assn --- see PPA
CPPA Canadian Periodical Publishers Assn (currently CMPA)
CP&P Canadian Printer and Publisher
CRBA Canadian Retail Booksellers Assn --- see CBA
CSL Conseil supérieur du livre
CTA Canadian Telebook Agency
CTPI Canadian Textbook Publishers Institute (div of CBPC)
CWNA Canadian Weekly Newspapers Assn
DBS Dominion Bureau of Statistics
DOC Canada. Dept of Communications
DRIE Canada. Dept of Regional Industrial Expansion (formerly IT&C)
FBDB Federal Business Development Bank
FCPRC Canada. Federal Cultural Policy Review Committee
FEAC Freelance Editors Assn of Canada
FILM/MIBF Foire internationale du livre de Montréal/
Montreal International Book Fair
FIRA/AEIE Foreign Investment Review Agency/ Agence d'examen de l'investissement étranger (now Investment Canada)
GAIA Graphic Arts Industries Assn (formerly GAAC)
GCP Guild of Canadian Playwrights
GDC Graphic Designers of Canada
GP General Publishing Co Ltd
HRW(HR&W) Holt Rinehart & Winston of Canada Ltd
IAGO Industries des arts graphiques de Québec
IBY International Book Year/ Année internationale du livre
IPA Independent Publishers Ass (now ACP)
ITC Canada. Dept of Industry, Trade & Commerce (now DRIE)
ITO International Thomson Organization
JLC Jeunesse littéraire du Canada
LCP League of Canadian Poets
L&OD Lester& Orpen Dennys
L&ODD (LODD) Lester & Orpen Dennys Deneau
LPG Literary Presses Group (div of ACP)
M&S McClelland & Stewart Ltd
MAC Magazines Assn of Canada
MAC Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec
M-G/R McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd
M-H Maclean-Hunter Ltd
MIBF/FILM Montreal International Book Fair/ Foire internationale du livre de Montréal
MIPA Manitoba Independent Publishers Assn
NACS National Assn of College Stores (US)
NAL New American Library
NCEP&L National Council of Employing Printers & Lithographers (becomes CGAA, GAIA]
NMAF National Magazines Awards Council
NMIL Nouvelles messageries internationales du livre
NPA Newfoundland Publishers Assn
OAC Ontario Arts Council
ODC Ontario Development Council
OLA Ontario Library Assn
OLMDF Ontario Learning Materials Development Fund
OUP Oxford University Press
PDC Periodicals Distributors of Canada
PMA Peter Martin Associates
PMB Print Measurement Bureau
P-H Prentice-Hall Canada Ltd
PIA Printing Industries of American (US trade organization)
PPA Periodical Press Assn
PPAC Pulp & Paper Assn of Canada
PUL Presses de l'Université Laval
PUM Presses de l'Université de Montréal
PUQ Presses de l'Université du Québec
PWAC Periodical Writers Assn of Canada
QP (KP) Queen's Printer (King's Printer) -- see Can. Ministry of Supply & Services
Rohmer Ontario. Royal Commission on Book Publishing (1972)
SCFPDA Société canadienne-française de protection du droit d'auteur
SDLP Société de développement du livre et du périodique
SEC Société des écrivains canadiens
Sec'y State Canada. Dept of the Secretary of State
SECMS Société des éditeurs canadiens de manuels scolaires (later SEMSQ)
SEMSQ Société des éditeurs de manuels scolaires du Québec
SGDC Society of Graphic Designers of Canada
SGF Société générale de financement du Québec
SILQ Salon international du livre de Québec
SLC Société des libraires canadiens (later ALQ)
SLGC Société des libraires grossistes canadiens
SLM Salon du livre de Montréal
SODICC Société de développement des industries de la culture et des communications
SOQUIJ Société québécoises d'information juridique
SSHRCC Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada
SWOBA Southwestern Ontario Booksellers Assn
TDC Typographical Designers of Canada
TPL Toronto Public Library
TTU Toronto Typographical Union
TWUC The Writers' Union of Canada -- see WUC
UCPG University & College Publishers' Group (div of CPBC)
UEQ Union des écrivains du Québec
UTP University of Toronto Press
VNR Van Nostrand Reinhold
WBA Western Booksellers Assn
WCCSA Western Canada Colleges Stores Assn
WCPA Western Canadian Publishers Assn
WDT Writers' Development Trust
WFNS Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia
WHS W.H. Smith & Sons
WUC/TWUC (The) Writers Union of Canada
WWPTBG Wartime Prices & Trade Board
YCBW Young Canada Book Week