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Possible services surrounding NACO and NAR creation
by Nicole Arbuckle 11 Mar '15

11 Mar '15

Backstage Library Works will soon be NACO independent! With this independence and in order to provide improved services to our clients and others in the library community, we're investigating new ways that we can better serve you. NAR creation in conjunction with our Cataloging services * Like any one of your catalogers, when performing copy or original cataloging, we would create or edit NARs as needed to ensure that all headings have corresponding and up-to-date NARs. We could deliver the new authority records with the bibliographic records we catalog, or you could wait to receive them with your next authority file update. NAR creation in general * If you have a backlog of authority records to create, or want to contribute your local authorities to NACO and aren't part of a funnel project or otherwise a member, Backstage could work from surrogates, ebooks, existing lists, etc., to create or contribute for you. * If creating from surrogates, we could add a particular note indicating such was the case. If a NACO library yourselves, you could review the item-in-hand and then delete such a note, or leave it as is. Because we will be doing some contribution ourselves in order to maintain our independence, for any service offering we would be open to creating NARs under a NACO library's authorization or to use our own as desired. This would be similar to our cataloging workflow where we often catalog using a library's OCLC authorization. Depending on budgets, we would customize the amount of work/information going into NARs to be as little as just the CORE elements to a fully fleshed out record. Our current limitations: we are not able to do non-Roman languages at this time, but we can handle the majority of Romanized languages. We are also not yet trained to do series titles. As these ideas, or other service options, are in the early investigation phases, we would appreciate any insight, thoughts, other ideas or suggestions that you may have that could turn these into something that would be really helpful. Please feel free to respond to me off-list. Many thanks in advance for your time and consideration! Best, Nicole Nicole Arbuckle, PMP | Vice President, Metadata Services Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Phone: 801.356.1852 x.227 | Fax: 801.356.8220 | nicole(a)bslw.com<mailto:ccheney@bslw.com> | www.bslw.com<http://www.bslw.com/> [thumbsup32] <http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=404&rating=1> [thumbsdown32] <http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=404&rating=0> How am I doing?<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=404>

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Backstage - Discounted Retrospective RDA Enrichment
by Nate Cothran 11 Feb '15

11 Feb '15

Greetings Everyone, In 2014, we saw a total of 44 individual clients send us in their full catalogs for RDA enrichment processing. Those clients brought in a combined total of over 46 million records which were sent through our system; our smallest library had around 27,000 records and our largest had over 6.1 million records. With each client, we always sought to customize the profile as much as possible for what they wanted to see happen with their records. Many of our clients even helped shape the options either by enhancing them or working with us to add new options, which everyone could partake of as desired. The 2014 free RDA enrichment service has come to a close. However, we would like to offer a significant discount for clients that may have missed the opportunity, but are still interested in the RDA enrichment or full back file re-processing. The discount is priced at $0.01 per record processed. We're including some of the same qualifications from last year: * Clients must have already completed a Remaster or Basefile processing with Backstage * Clients must be current, meaning Notification services were applied during the preceding year * Clients must start their processing by December 31, 2015 in order to still qualify for this price Our online profile can be viewed at anytime, by logging in here: http://ac.bslw.com/mars Please feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have. Thanks, Nate Nate Cothran | Vice President, Automated Services Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 801.342.5697 | nate(a)bslw.com<mailto:nate@bslw.com?subject=Automated%20Services> | bslw.com<http://www.bslw.com/> | ac.bslw.com/mars<http://ac.bslw.com/mars> [thumbsup32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=1>[thumbsdown32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=0> How am I doing?<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15>

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Backstage - Phase 3a update (final)
by Nate Cothran 14 Jan '15

14 Jan '15

We received an additional 16k updates this week from LC. My counts as to the totals have been off these past few weeks because it's not particularly easy to distinguish the normal LC updates that we receive from the Phase 3a-only updates that we have been receiving. Those of you who may have been waiting to process can now do so, knowing that we have the complete set of Phase 3a updates in our system. Nate Cothran | Vice President, Automated Services Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 801.342.5697 | nate(a)bslw.com<mailto:nate@bslw.com?subject=Automated%20Services> | bslw.com<http://www.bslw.com/> | ac.bslw.com/mars<http://ac.bslw.com/mars> [thumbsup32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=1>[thumbsdown32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=0> How am I doing?<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15>

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Backstage - RDA in Practice: Enrichment Profile Statistics
by Nate Cothran 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

Since the Library of Congress officially endorsed RDA back in late March 2013, Backstage has enriched more than 74 million bibliographic records with RDA elements, cleanup, corrections, and formatting. (Please note: at the time of the webinar, the number enriched was over 60 million). Back in December 2014, I put together a webinar that went through our online RDA profile and listed comparisons for Academic, Public, and Special libraries as to which options have been most often chosen by our clients. This webinar reflects the clientele that, by the end of November 2014, had completed the full RDA enrichment on their retrospective catalog with Backstage's authority control service. The presentation is 50:51 minutes long and includes the Q&A period we had at the end. The PDF for the slides are also available, which contain the statistics and percentages for the options chosen. Both the slides and webinar can be accessed here: http://www.bslw.com/presentations/rda/profile_statistics/ Nate Cothran | Vice President, Automated Services Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 801.342.5697 | nate(a)bslw.com<mailto:nate@bslw.com?subject=Automated%20Services> | bslw.com<http://www.bslw.com/> | ac.bslw.com/mars<http://ac.bslw.com/mars> [thumbsup32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=1>[thumbsdown32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=0> How am I doing?<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15>

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Backstage - Phase 3a update
by Nate Cothran 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

We received an additional 80k updates the week of 12/24 and another 17k updates this week. That brings the total for Phase 3a to around 227k, which is still quite a bit under the estimated 350k for this initial cleanup phase. LC has announced that they have completed the Phase 3a cleanup as of Monday, January 7. So, it could be that one more update is coming next week or it could be that this really is all to be expected from this particular phase. Nate Cothran | Vice President, Automated Services Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 801.342.5697 | nate(a)bslw.com<mailto:nate@bslw.com?subject=Automated%20Services> | bslw.com<http://www.bslw.com/> | ac.bslw.com/mars<http://ac.bslw.com/mars> [thumbsup32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=1>[thumbsdown32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=0> How am I doing?<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15>

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Backstage - Phase 3a update
by Nate Cothran 18 Dec '14

18 Dec '14

We received an additional 89k updates this week from LC for Phase 3a NAF cleanup. That brings the total to around 130k so far. LC originally had plans to wrap this up before Christmas (or by this Friday, 12/19). However, there are still roughly 220k updates left to do. So it is looking doubtful that Phase 3a will be complete before the end of this year. LC has said they will pick back up with the Phase 3a cleanup very early next year in the event that they cannot finish in 2014. Nate Cothran | Vice President, Automated Services Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 801.342.5697 | nate(a)bslw.com<mailto:nate@bslw.com?subject=Automated%20Services> | bslw.com<http://www.bslw.com/> | ac.bslw.com/mars<http://ac.bslw.com/mars> [thumbsup32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=1>[thumbsdown32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=0> How am I doing?<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15>

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Backstage - Master Local Authority File
by Nate Cothran 12 Dec '14

12 Dec '14

http://ac.bslw.com/community/wiki/index.php5/Step_3.13 Local Authority Masters At Backstage, we have an option to match against a Library's local authority file, either first or last in the process. If we match first, then the version of the heading that the Library has maintained on their side is preferred and taken over whatever match may (or may not) exist in the national authority file. If we match last, then the heading does not show up on our unmatched headings report. In either case, we also do not return the local authority match because it is presumed that our Library already has a copy of that in their own system. We have around 20 or so clients that have us maintain their local authority master records. These clients, together, have a combined total of 3.0 million+ local authorities. Master Local Authority File? So we had the thought of what if it made sense for our other libraries to match against these local authorities? Maybe there wouldn't be a high match-rate anyway against the combined locals due to their (most likely) regional coverage, but perhaps it is still worth exploring? With more than 3.0m extra authorities to match against, would it make sense to try this kind of service? Next Steps For now, this is all theoretical for us at Backstage. We wanted to broach the topic to our clients via the listserv and gather any feedback. If this did sound like a good idea to explore, then we would also need to approach those clients that currently have local authorities with us and ask their permission to include those authorities into a Master Local Authority File. We have ideas in place about how to maintain that database, but we can talk more about those ideas if this garners any kind of positive response. As always, we welcome whatever feedback you may have about this potential service. Nate Cothran | Vice President, Automated Services Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 801.342.5697 | nate(a)bslw.com<mailto:nate@bslw.com?subject=Automated%20Services> | bslw.com<http://www.bslw.com/> | ac.bslw.com/mars<http://ac.bslw.com/mars> [thumbsup32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=1>[thumbsdown32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=0> How am I doing?<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15>

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Backstage - Phase 3a NAF cleanup has started
by Nate Cothran 11 Dec '14

11 Dec '14

Phase 3a cleanup of the NAF has indeed begun this week. We received around 41,000 updates from LC which should start making their way to our clients depending on when you receive your Notification updates. As a comparison, we typically have between 4,000 to 6,000 updates from LC each week. Since the aim of Phase 3a is to churn through 350,000 updates over this time period, we anticipate next week's set of updates will likely be in the neighborhood of 150,000 or more. Naturally, not all of these updates will necessarily be passed your way as it depends on the volume of authorities you have in your database as well as the coverage represented by your access points. Still, please be prepared for a much larger than normal set of authorities to load. Nate Cothran | Vice President, Automated Services Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 801.342.5697 | nate(a)bslw.com<mailto:nate@bslw.com?subject=Automated%20Services> | bslw.com<http://www.bslw.com/> | ac.bslw.com/mars<http://ac.bslw.com/mars> [thumbsup32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=1>[thumbsdown32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=0> How am I doing?<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15>

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Backstage - Phase 3a update
by Nate Cothran 04 Dec '14

04 Dec '14

Just a quick note to let everyone know that the tentatively planned Phase 3a cleanup that would begin December 1st has not happened yet. Our own Karen Anderson is telling us that the task force is starting work on adding ISNI to name authority records, which is the main focus for Phase 3b. Due to this, Phase 3a's planned updates have been postponed slightly. We expect the updates to commence in time for LC's next weekly update (week of 12/8). Nate Cothran | Vice President, Automated Services Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 801.342.5697 | nate(a)bslw.com<mailto:nate@bslw.com?subject=Automated%20Services> | bslw.com<http://www.bslw.com/> | ac.bslw.com/mars<http://ac.bslw.com/mars> [thumbsup32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=1>[thumbsdown32]<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15&rating=0> How am I doing?<http://ac.bslw.com/customer_satisfaction/review.php?token=15>

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RDA, uniform titles, THIS 1XX FIELD CANNOT BE USED
by Ted Waller 03 Dec '14

03 Dec '14

After reloading all bibs and authorities for the RDA upgrade, we have a number of authorities with the 667 THIS 1XX FIELD CANNOT BE USED UNDER RDA UNTIL THIS RECORD HAS BEEN REVIEWED AND/OR UPDATED. The list I have comes from an III blind headings report and is all uniform titles. I imagine there are other types of authorities with the same message. My question is: Should I ignore this 667 message and change headings in bib records to match the authority? *Ted* Ted Waller Carlyle Campbell Library Meredith College 919 760 8381

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