| No | Word | Definition |
| 1 | ADDL | Academic Document Digital Library |
| 2 | ADL | Alexandria Digital Library |
| 3 | CDDL | Corporate Document Digital Library |
| 4 | CDL | California Digital Library |
| 5 | DL | Digital Library is a set of diverse information structures, normally built within / atop an internetwork, which provide access on demand to one or more authorized category of entities (people / systems) and wherein most of the information is encoded in multimedia formats. |
| 6 | DLI | The Digital Library Initiatives (DLI) Department leads the library in innovative projects to enhance the development of the digital library. |
| 7 | JournalServer | JournalServer is an Oxford-based international initiative to create a digital library of academic journals freely available to the public. |
| 8 | Multimedia libraries | Multimedia libraries are DLs, where the managed content is not restricted to the usually mainly textual documents. Such libraries contain, next to the "textual" contents, media types like music, videos, images, maps, and mixtures of different content types (multimedia objects). |