Retrospective Conversion If it's not in your catalog. It's not in your library.

Whether you need complete conversion, or you just have small pockets of unconverted materials lingering in your library, Backstage Library Works can provide high-quality bibliographic records for your catalog. We have worked for libraries all over the world, loading records onto all major automation systems. We have worked with academic, public, special, and school libraries, from nearly every type of source document, in over 100 languages, including non-Roman scripts.

Services on Your Terms

Our goal is to perform your retrospective conversion project the way your staff would do it, if they had the time. Every library's collections and requirements are different. Backstage Library Works will customize processes to provide the exact service you need. We have customers who thought their work could only be done in house, who are now happy to have us take care of their projects. We also do on-site card scanning.

From Any Combination of Databases

Backstage Library Works has access to high-quality records from a huge variety of sources. We can use any combination of these databases to provide the best outcome for your project. Backstage Library Works maintains its own database of seven million Library of Congress records; three million records converted from various academic and government sources, predating the LC database; and one million original records created by Backstage Library Works during various conversion projects. We can also link to records on the OCLC WorldCat database. WorldCat includes one of our favorite sources, the RLG Union Catalog, made up of more than 115 million records contributed by some of the most renowned academic and research libraries in 255 different countries, along with the databases of the British Library, which contain over ten million records. If you wish us to use your own database, or that of a consortium to which you belong, no problem. We can do that, too.

Into Any Format

Backstage Library Works provides records in MARC21, UKMARC, UNIMARC, or any other format your library needs. In addition, we can perform conversions between MARC formats.

For more information, e-mail info@bslw.com or call us at 1-800-288-1265.

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