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	<title>MARS Authority Control &#187; RDA</title>
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		<title>Transition away from MARC?</title>
		<link>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2011/11/transition-away-from-marc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent announcement by the Library of Congress (LC) has provided more details about its intent to steer away from MARC format and begin investigation into its replacement. MARC has been the format for bibliographic and authority record exchange for nearly 40 years. Because of that the format lacks the ability to accommodate fully the features planned for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RDA Crosswalk</title>
		<link>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2011/06/rda-crosswalk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Karen, our RDA and Authority Control Librarian, has asked that I share this information with our blog readers. If you&#8217;re interested in RDA and conversions to and from AACR2 please take a few moments to read this and give us your feedback. Thanks! With the decision of the National Libraries to adopt RDA sometime after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RDA Officially Adopted by Library of Congress</title>
		<link>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2011/06/rda-officially-adopted-by-library-of-congress/</link>
		<comments>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2011/06/rda-officially-adopted-by-library-of-congress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[RDA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[National Agricultural Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Library of Medicine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Library of Congress, National Library of Medicine, and the National Agricultural Library announced today their conditional adoption of RDA and have set the date of implementation not earlier than January 1st, 2013. In response to concerns about RDA raised by the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, the three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MARS Authority Control Updates</title>
		<link>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2011/03/mars-authority-control-updates/</link>
		<comments>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2011/03/mars-authority-control-updates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authority Control]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[RDA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FRBR, FRAD, and RDA what they all mean</title>
		<link>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2011/03/frbr-frad-and-rda-what-they-all-mean/</link>
		<comments>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2011/03/frbr-frad-and-rda-what-they-all-mean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authority Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authority Records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bibliographic Records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MARC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FRAD]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MARC21]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/?p=263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updated RDA Links</title>
		<link>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2011/03/updated-rda-links/</link>
		<comments>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2011/03/updated-rda-links/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authority Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RDA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LC Policies for RDA and AACR2</title>
		<link>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2011/03/lc-policies-for-rda-and-aacr2/</link>
		<comments>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2011/03/lc-policies-for-rda-and-aacr2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authority Control]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[RDA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who are wondering about LC&#8217;s policies for RDA and AACR2 records now that the national test is over, LC has posted the PCC Post RDA Test Guidelines here: &#160; http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/PCC-Post-RDA-Test.html &#160; The document is understandable and has some really good examples for the different scenarios.  This will be a good site [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summary of RDA Options</title>
		<link>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2011/01/summary-of-rda-options/</link>
		<comments>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2011/01/summary-of-rda-options/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 20:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Automated Authority Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authority Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authority Records]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Customization]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/?p=252</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is a clear and concise summary of the main options we have for handling RDA and AACR2 bibliographic records and matching against RDA or AACR2 Authority records. We want you to receive your records exactly the way you want them, so we have created a number of different options. If you have any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backstage Plans for RDA Bibliographic Record Handling</title>
		<link>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2010/10/backstage-plans-for-rda-bibliographic-record-handling/</link>
		<comments>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2010/10/backstage-plans-for-rda-bibliographic-record-handling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:30:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authority Control]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bibliographic Records]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/?p=233</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Introduction There has been a lot of talk recently regarding what options are available to our clients when it concerns their RDA bibliographic records.  We realized this was a great opportunity to discuss with you our tentative plans during this testing phase.  Our company has always been interested in providing our customers with different processing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have RDA Records Now?</title>
		<link>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2010/10/have-rda-records-now/</link>
		<comments>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2010/10/have-rda-records-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:11:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Automated Authority Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authority Control]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/?p=230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As one of LC&#8217;s RDA test partners, we are currently working on our processes now to ensure that not only will RDA records be able to be processed without damaging existing RDA content, but that we will be able to utilize our existing validation and cleanup systems to give you back the very best available [...]]]></description>
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