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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>
				<category><![CDATA[MARC]]></category>
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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>Free Floater Subfield Validation</title>
		<link>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2011/07/free-floater-subfield-validation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free-Floater Subdivision Validation (18X) When a heading is attempting to find a match against Library of Congress (LC) authority records, it is typically the case that the full heading will not find a match. Why is this? It is due to all of the varied possibilities with headings that include free-floating subdivisions. For instance, the [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Automation Services]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Help Us]]></category>

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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>
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		<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>Come Join us in New Orleans for ALA</title>
		<link>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2011/06/come-join-us-in-new-orleans-for-ala/</link>
		<comments>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2011/06/come-join-us-in-new-orleans-for-ala/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conferences]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authority Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genres]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On your way to Saturday morning seminars at the ALA conference, set aside some time to drop in at the semiannual MARS Authority Control Breakfast. Come meet with us at: Calcasieu 930 Tchoupitoulas Street New Orleans (Second floor, above Cochon) Saturday, June 25, 2011 7:30 to 9:00 a.m. (Calcasieu is just a couple of blocks from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Publishing and Metadata</title>
		<link>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2011/06/of-publishing-and-metadata/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Automation Services]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ONIX]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As we at Backstage look to where bibliographic metadata comes from, we see lots of data coming directly from publishers.  Our own cataloging department has been cataloging thousands of titles each month for publishers, and so we’ve recently been looking towards the publishing industry to learn about how their processes impact the bibliographic data that [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authority Control]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[MARC21]]></category>

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		<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>LC Genre/Form Records</title>
		<link>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2011/03/lc-genreform-records/</link>
		<comments>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2011/03/lc-genreform-records/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authority Records]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/?p=260</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We 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: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/genreformgeneral.html Here is what this means for Backstage [...]]]></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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