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LC ‘Maps’ Policy Change

Monday, October 11th, 2010

LC has recently made changes to the way that Maps will be handled in subject headings. As such, many people wondered how we were going to handle the changes and allow you the freedom and flexibility to do whats best for you library. Our expert librarian, Karen, drew up this explanation of the changes and how we can help you:

Proposals for handling the new LC policy for map form subdivisions (more…)

Tags:Announcements, Bibliographic Records, Customization, LC Policies
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Revision to RDA Testing Policy

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

We’ve recently received information about a revision to the RDA testing policy that we had posted a few weeks ago. You should be able to find the updated information here: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/RDAtest/rdatest.html

** Note: The update may not be posted yet on the Library of Congress site, it is dated Sept. 2010.

The important aspects of the revision in terms of Authority Control are:

The second indicator for the 7XX fields is to be 4 not 7.

There will not be a $2 added to the 7XX either

Tags:Authority Control, Authority Records, RDA
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Russian Ligatures in MARC

Monday, September 13th, 2010

We have had a few other libraries ask about the Russian ligatures since there seems to be several inconsistencies with how these diacritics are coded in LC’s authority records. A couple of months ago, one of our programmers was looking into this issue. Here is the information that he found: (more…)

Tags:Bibliographic Records, UTF-8
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RDA Testing and Policies

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

We are gearing up our RDA Testing as one of the official Test Partners with LC and we wanted to share with you what we are doing. There will be more to come in the coming days and weeks, but our wonderful RDA Librarian Karen has put together what to expect right away. (more…)

Tags:Authority Records, RDA
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Stats Page

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Any time we process a file for your institution, we generate a Statistical Summary report. Within this report, we list match-rates, types of records processed, as well as the number of fields changed during processing. While this is all well and good, as soon as that report is sent out to you, those statistics have been forgotten. (more…)

Tags:Announcements, Authority Control, Reports
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New Optional Report (R08 Generic Names)

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

New Optional Report – R08 Generic Names

Backstage has a new optional report that can be generated during Current Cataloging or Basefile processing. The new report lists all generic name headings. Below is a brief description of the report as well as a few examples of how headings on this report appear. (more…)

Tags:Authority Control, Bibliographic Records, Generic Names
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