At Backstage, we are always on the lookout for presentation and other related opportunities with our clients.

Jeremy Myntti (University of Utah, Marriott Library) and I co-presented at the Authority Control Interest Group in ALA Annual (Chicago, 2013). We discussed our work on providing authority control for digital collections in a non-MARC environment. In addition to the presentation at ACIG in Chicago 2013, Jeremy & I also participated in an online webinar hosted by Mountain West Digital Library: http://mwdl.org/events/authcontrol.php.

Earlier this year, I did a co-presentation with Sarah Beth Weeks from the Bridge Consortium, regarding our RDA enrichment services. Sarah & I talked about what transpired with her records from our different perspectives; Sarah also very nearly lost her voice on the day we presented but was able to pull it off without a hitch. Archived versions of our presentation are available to Amigos members here: http://www.amigos.org/rda_conference. I should note that the picture they used of me is easily 10 years old! I have much more gray in my hair now.

As you look at your calendar of potential presentation or webinar opportunities in the next 6 or so months, please keep us in mind for anything that might make sense for joining with you. It could be that participating in a co-presentation at this year’s ALA Annual in Las Vegas is too late, but we welcome other prospects down the road. Especially as we start enriching more and more of your records with RDA elements, it may make sense to put together a presentation or webinar and talk about the effects running that process has had on your staff, your catalog, and your patrons.

Please feel free to respond either to the list or offline if you would like to pursue presentations or webinars with us. We also have others on the team that would love to participate and lend their expertise, assisting you in whatever way we can.

Nate Cothran | Vice President, Automation Services

Backstage Library Works | Provo, Utah & Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

801.342.5697 | nate@bslw.com | bslw.com | ac.bslw.com/mars