This quarter has been a busy one for us at Backstage in the Authority Control / Automation service dept. We always get together and discuss upcoming goals and apply priorities to those goals throughout the year, just as everyone on this list participates in their own goals-oriented meetings. And, just like everyone else, sometimes our goals are changed around or new goals come into play that causes us to drop everything and focus on those instead. (more…)
Archive for March, 2011
MARS Authority Control Updates
Thursday, March 31st, 2011Tags:Announcements, Authority Control, RDA, UTF-8
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FRBR, FRAD, and RDA what they all mean
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011If you’re anything like me when you hear about FRBR, FRAD, and RDA you wonder who spilled their alphabet soup. But these are serious topics in the library world and we need to understand what each term means, how they relate to one another, and what we can expect to see in the future. Karen, our RDA librarian has kindly put together a basic primer for us to understand these issues.
Tags:Authority Control, Authority Records, Bibliographic Records, FRAD, FRBR, MARC21, RDA
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LC Genre/Form Records
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011We have received several inquiries about how we will be handling the new LC Genre/form records (lcgft) and 655 headings in bibliographic records.
Our default policy will be to follow the LC/PCC guidelines. These can be found on the LC Policy and Standards Division Genre/form web page: (more…)
Tags:Announcements, Authority Control, Authority Records, genres
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Updated RDA Links
Monday, March 7th, 2011Our RDA specialist, Karen, has updated the best list of links and information on RDA on the net and provided that for us here.
To implement or not to implement, that is the question! The National RDA Test has been completed and the evaluation period is underway. Library communities, and others, wait for the decision to be made by the National Libraries. Will the decision be ready by this summer’s ALA Annual as hoped, or not?
In the meantime, we offer a new and improved, updated, annotated, RDA links list to provide excellent resources in the quest to understand RDA and the models behind it. This is not an all encompassing list by any means. Please feel free to share other links you know of.
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LC Policies for RDA and AACR2
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011For those of you who are wondering about LC’s policies for RDA and AACR2
records now that the national test is over, LC has posted the PCC Post
RDA Test Guidelines here: (more…)
Tags:Announcements, Authority Control, Authority Records, Bibliographic Records, RDA
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