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ebook records
by Ted Waller 04 May '09

04 May '09

What are the pros and cons about sending bib records for ebooks to BSLW for authority work? We have not send ebook records, but they now constitute about 30% of our collection so we are discussing it. -- /Ted Waller Carlyle Campbell Library Meredith College Raleigh, N.C./

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Backstage Library Works User Meeting at ALA
by John Reese 04 May '09

04 May '09

Greetings, The MARS 2.0 Authority Team is putting together an agenda and working on a time slot for our Annual ALA User Meeting in Chicago. We typically have this on Saturday morning at 7:30 or 8 AM. We want to make sure this is a convenient time for you to meet with the Backstage staff for a nice breakfast and discussion about our automated authority control product. Our other choice would be Sunday Morning at the same time. We are interested in feedback from you as to what day would be most convenient for you to attend. We are also interested in any authority control topics that you would like us to cover. So please chime in and let us know what works best for you. We look forward to seeing you at ALA. More information on place and location will follow once we have solidified a time and location. John Reese Vice President, Authority Services Backstage Library Works Voice (800) 391-5210 Ext. 249 Fax (801) 356-8220 Email jreese(a)bslw.com

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Backstage will now be including 'z' in 008 byte 12 when we consider series tracing
by Judy Archer 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

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Problem with the Community Center Blog
by John Reese 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

Dear Authority Control Customer, For the last week we have experienced a problem with the MARS Authority Control blog section of our Authority Control community site. When you access the blog from our Authority Control center, http://ac.bslw.com/community/, the page will often come up blank. We are not sure why this is happening but our programmers are looking at this and hope to have it fixed shortly. If this happens to you please click on the reload/refresh icon of your browser and that should bring up the blog. I apologize for this inconvenience. I will let you know when it is fixed. John Reese Product Manager Backstage Library Works Voice (800) 391-5210 Ext. 249 Fax (801) 356-8220 Email jreese(a)bslw.com

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New Backstage Authority control Community Web site
by John Reese 06 Feb '09

06 Feb '09

Backstage is pleased to introduce our authority control community web site. On this site you can connect to our wiki, blog, forum and our MARS 2.0 Client log in. Please take a look, post a introduction on the forum, surf the wiki and please, please feel free to post your comments. To register on the forum click the register link in the upper right hand corner. We welcome your input. The address is as follows: http://ac.bslw.com/community/ John Reese Product Manager Backstage Library Works Voice (800) 391-5210 Ext. 249 Fax (801) 356-8220 Email jreese(a)bslw.com

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Reminder Email - ALA Breakfast
by Chad Cluff 13 Jan '09

13 Jan '09

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help importing authorities into Horizon
by Barnard, Anna 11 Dec '08

11 Dec '08

Hello, Folks: I cannot get marcin to run on the file of authorities. It goes to the first record and then hangs. We are on Horizon 7.3.3. I contacted Horizon and they say it looks like I have everything set up correctly as far as the profile etc. Here is the marcin script I am using: Marcin /shorizon /pcrates /usa /dtest /ljag /ranna /fc:\auth.mrc /b10 /e0 /qblwa /o2 /j /1A /2A /3Y /tmarcin _auth_results.txt And this is the way it looks when I try to run it. It stops with a blinking cursor after the final o. Warning: This program might change ... Logging in to: horizon \...\ test Using codepage: 437 Reached the starting record. File: c:\auth.mrc # 1 Auth o Any ideas appreciated. Anna What we see depends mainly on what we look for. --John Lubbock Anna Barnard System Administrator John A. Graziano Memorial Library 400 Hawthorne Avenue Oakland CA 94609 Phone 510-869-8693 Fax 510-869-6633

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Authority Contol Change Report
by John Reese 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hello Backstage Library Works Authority Control customers. A few of you have requested we make a change to or "Change Report" to eliminate the reporting of Library of Congress changes that only involve minor punctuation and indicator changes. That capability is now available. If you are interested in have your Change Report free of minor punctuation and indicator changes you will need to contact your project manager and ask to have that change implemented for your next Notification run. We appreciate your interest in our product and welcome any comments on ways we can improve. We hope this change will be helpful to those interested. Thank you. John Reese Product Manager Backstage Library Works Voice (800) 391-5210 Ext. 249 Fax (801) 356-8220 Email jreese(a)bslw.com

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A few grammar mistakes
by John Reese 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

Speaking of minor corrections, in my hurry to get this out and of course I'll blame early morning fog, I made a few grammar mistakes. So I'll resubmit and hope I get it right this time. Following the queue of Maxwell Smart, I would like to say; "Sorry about that!" Hello Backstage Library Works Authority Control customers. A few of you have requested we make a change to our "Change Report" to eliminate the reporting of Library of Congress changes that only involve minor punctuation and indicator changes. That capability is now available. If you are interested in having your Change Report free of minor punctuation and indicator changes you will need to contact your project manager and ask to have that change implemented for your next Notification run. We appreciate your interest in our product and welcome any comments on ways we can improve. We hope this change will be helpful to those interested. Thank you. John Reese Product Manager Backstage Library Works Voice (800) 391-5210 Ext. 249 Fax (801) 356-8220 Email jreese(a)bslw.com

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can't get marcout to run
by Barnard, Anna 31 Oct '08

31 Oct '08

Greetings I have everything all set up to run marcout on a table populated with our bib sample, but marcout will not run. We are on Horizon 7.3.3. I do have Horizon turned off on the workstation. Marcout is in the Horizon73 folder. The table is visible in SQLAdvantage in db test. This is the command I am entering at the command prompt: Marcout /ssybase-server /pxxxx /uabarnard /dtest /mC:\backstagesample1 /xnone /b1 /e0 /Q999a /Ttemp_backstage_basefile /Y The error I get is "Couldn't access the resource or find the error string. LoginNULL." Can anyone give me any ideas for what to try? Thank you very much. Anna What we see depends mainly on what we look for. --John Lubbock Anna Barnard System Administrator John A. Graziano Memorial Library 400 Hawthorne Avenue Oakland CA 94609 Phone 510-869-8693 Fax 510-869-6633

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