We’ve recently received information about a revision to the RDA testing policy that we had posted a few weeks ago. You should be able to find the updated information here: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/RDAtest/rdatest.html
** Note: The update may not be posted yet on the Library of Congress site, it is dated Sept. 2010.
The important aspects of the revision in terms of Authority Control are:
Tags: Authority Control, Authority Records, RDA
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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: Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Bibliographic Records, UTF-8
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We 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. Read the rest of this entry »
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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. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Announcements, Authority Control, Reports
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New 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. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Authority Control, Bibliographic Records, Generic Names
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Sometimes 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. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Authority Control, Authority Records, Automation
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