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…)
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Russian Ligatures in MARC
Monday, September 13th, 2010Tags:Bibliographic Records, UTF-8
Posted in Authority Records, Automated Authority Control, Bibliographic Records, MARC | 4 Comments »
RDA Testing and Policies
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010We 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, 2010Any 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, 2010New 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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Adding to Authorities
Monday, August 16th, 2010Sometimes a national authority record just lacks some of the key information that your library needs. Maybe it’s an important cross-reference, a note, or some sort of field identifier. If you just receive the latest Library of Congress authority, for example, you could lose all that hard work that you and your staff have gone through to find the information and add it to your authorities. (more…)
Tags:Authority Control, Authority Records, Automation
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ALA Summer 2010 Recap
Monday, July 26th, 2010With all the excitement surrounding RDA at ALA Annual (and we’ll have an update about that up soon), we realized we didn’t have a quick recap of events from my point of view in DC. I would like to fill you in on details from an operational point of view as concerns Backstage, letting Karen Anderson let you know about the RDA updates later. (more…)
Tags:ALA, Authority Control, RDA
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