The Annual Library Pub Crawl: Gathering and Preserving Locally Published Serials
When do you start preparing to microfilm and digitize the annual run of local newspapers, newsletters, and magazines published in your community throughout the year? Short, regular projects to keep up with preserving born-analogue materials help prevent backlogs and make certain that your materials are in the best shape they can be when they’re imaged. […]
Service Contracting for the Savvy Administrator
When you work with a vendor, customization shouldn’t stop at your project’s workflow and deliverables. Funding and timelines are intrinsically connected and, often, the project’s success will be determined by the duration of work and how it’s budgeted. You’ve just filled out a questionnaire for your upcoming project. You know it’s going to be for […]
Not-So-Ghastly Truths Behind Disbinding Books
When you send materials to a vendor for archival digitization or microfilming, it may be the furthest thing from your mind to consider that the original material may need, in some way, to be altered prior to capture. While these occasions are rare, it can happen. But, we promise – this isn’t the first chapter […]
Shipping Library Materials Made Easy: A Step-By-Step Guide
The end of this blog has a quick summary of pertinent details for easy reference, as well as a free, downloadable excel spreadsheet for tracking, printing, and sharing per-box inventories! Getting materials from point A to point B is going to be a big part of your upcoming vendor-outsourced project. The importance of care when […]
Camera Ready, Set, GO!
“Camera ready” is a term used to describe when, as the name suggests, materials are ready to be digitally captured or microfilmed. How do you prepare a jumble of papers, or a collection of books, or a pile of newspapers to be safely captured? At Backstage, we ask our clients whether their materials are camera […]
How To Make Cataloging Surrogates, Why They Can Help
Short on time? Download our easy guide for your on-the-go reference. Photographing digital “facsimiles” of materials – or as we colloquially say at Backstage, “surrogates” – can be a useful workflow for a variety of situations faced in the technical library setting. The process varies, but the goal is to have a technician create brief […]
Things to Consider When Planning Your RFID Tagging Project
Adding RFID to your library collection can be a huge boon to both library staff and your patrons. Self-checkout stations using RFID can improve checkout rates while limiting exposure and reducing strain on staff. RFID also makes inventory a breeze, while also allowing staff to scan shelves quickly and easily for missing books. With the […]
Top Questions When Considering Reclassification
Converting your library from one classification system to another can be an arduous task. Backstage helps make the challenge easier by walking you through the processes and using our experience to identify potential pitfalls. However, these conversations usually start with the same standard questions from our clients. Here is an overview of the most common […]
