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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 Officially Adopted by Library of Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
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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>
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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>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>
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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>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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/?p=255</guid>
		<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>We&#8217;re expanding! RBMS and TGM databases available for searching</title>
		<link>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2011/01/were-expanding-rbms-and-tgm-databases-available-for-searching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are proud to announce the addition of two new genre databases in which to match your records against. RBMS &#8212; Rare Books and Manuscript Section TGM &#8212; Thesaurus for Graphic Materials Read more to learn about each of these databases. RBMS – Rare Books and Manuscript Section Association of College and Research Libraries, Division [...]]]></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>
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		<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>LC &#8216;Maps&#8217; Policy Change</title>
		<link>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2010/10/lc-maps-policy-change/</link>
		<comments>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2010/10/lc-maps-policy-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stats Page</title>
		<link>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2010/08/stats-page/</link>
		<comments>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2010/08/stats-page/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nate</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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.

We thought it would be a good idea to keep you informed of some of those statistics on a regular basis, all completely tailored to when you send us files for processing.  And we wanted to do this in a graphical way so that you’re not just looking at lists of numbers and confused as to their relevancy to your records.]]></description>
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		<title>Backstage Testing RDA</title>
		<link>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2010/08/backstage-testing-rda/</link>
		<comments>http://ac.bslw.com/community/blog/2010/08/backstage-testing-rda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a provider of cataloging services, Backstage will be evaluating the effects of RDA on costs and services to library and publisher clients in relation to cataloging, copy cataloging, retrospective conversion, and reclassification.  Specific attention will be paid to the ease and time of training entry level para-professionals for working in an RDA environment]]></description>
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