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	<title>MARS Authority Control &#187; MARC</title>
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		<title>Transition away from MARC?</title>
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		<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>Of Publishing and Metadata</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
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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>Backstage Library Works Automated Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have noticed that we&#8217;ve recently changed the name of this blog from MARS Authority Control to MARS Automation Services. Why the change? I&#8217;ve asked our Chief Operations Officer of the Utah location, John Reese, to explain why. Here is what he had to say. *** Before the purchase of MARS from OCLC, Backstage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MARC8 and UTF8 &#8211; what does it mean?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we looked at the Anatomy of an Authority Record, but what if we look even deeper? Both Bibliographic and Authority records are essentially text, made up of characters formed either in MARC8 or UTF8. But what does that mean, and whats the difference? MARC-8 The MARC-8 character set uses 8-bit characters, meaning it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding the MARC Structure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Underneath the MARC records that we all know and love is a somewhat cryptic structure that tells our systems how to read the record. Luckily, this structure rarely gets corrupted, but when it does, it&#8217;s good to have a basic understanding of how to read and understand a MARC Format. The MARC format is a [...]]]></description>
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