Contact:

Kat Kamp
Backstage Library Works
Phone: 800.288.1265
news@bslw.com
www.bslw.com

PROVO, Utah, July 6, 2017 –– Backstage Library Works (www.bslw.com) is pleased to announce the promotion of Chad Cluff to Chief Information Officer. Chad has worked at Backstage for 20 years and has fulfilled many roles, including metadata services technician, technical services developer, authority control programmer, software development and IT head, and now chief information officer. He is a PMP-certified leader who has worked with numerous clients, internal and external, in various formats to develop custom solutions to complicated data problems. Chad will be responsible for the information, data, and programming needs of the company.

Chad’s insights, knowledge, and many years of service and experience at Backstage will be a valuable tool in the company’s mission to provide the best possible service to its clients.

Chad states:

“Data is at the center of everything we do at Backstage. We work with libraries and special institutions to better access, improve, create, and disseminate data.

“I believe in fostering a world-class library service organization and furthering Backstage’s use of emerging technology, data trends and other resources to create innovative solutions for our clients’ ultimate success.

“I’m looking forward to working closely with Backstage staff in leveraging their experience and talent to better serve our clients.”

Nate Cothran, president of Backstage states:

“As Backstage continues to grow and expand its core services, it makes sense to invest in our infrastructure to better serve the needs of our customers and each other. Chad brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to our information and technology processes and we look forward to maximizing that synergy across all of the departments in our company.”

About Backstage Library Works

Backstage’s objective is to provide the most technologically advanced, high quality, yet efficient means for delivering professional library services. With over 25 years of experience, the company is known for its expertise in handling complex and unique projects. Backstage specializes in solutions for cataloging, authority control, digitization, preservation microfilm, and on-site needs. In providing services to more than a thousand libraries, large and small, public and private, and in locations across the globe, Backstage has cultivated an understanding of libraries, their mission, their operations, and the challenges they face. Backstage offices are located in Provo, Utah, and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

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Contact:

Kat Kamp
Backstage Library Works
800.288.1265
news@bslw.com
www.bslw.com

PROVO, Utah, July 7, 2017 –– Backstage Library Works (www.bslw.com) is pleased to announce the promotion of Casey Cheney to Vice President of Automation Services. Casey has worked with Backstage for 14 years and has fulfilled many roles, including assistant project manager and project manager in retrospective conversion, reclassification, and cataloging. In April 2016, she transitioned to project manager for authority control processing.

Casey will be responsible for managing authority control and machine services projects, working with internal programmers, controlling costs, innovating on metadata-related prospects, consulting with the Sales and Marketing department, and coordinating with Metadata and On-Site Services on shared projects.

Casey is a PMP-certified leader whose emphasis on customer service has consistently led to her being one of the highest rated project managers in client satisfaction ratings.

Casey states:

“Our Automation Services department is a vital part of the work we do here at Backstage. With the ever-changing role of librarians and the environment in which they work, it is absolutely necessary that we provide a way to make data maintenance and enhancement as streamlined as possible.

“Automation Services will continue to expand and improve upon its existing services while keeping an eye forward on what is to come.

“I will work to develop partnerships and other opportunities that will broaden our net to serve even more institutions in ways that they need. I am excited to continue to bring world-class service to the library community and I look forward to working closely with clients.”

Nate Cothran, president of Backstage states:

“Managing the adaptive and changing landscape of authority control, linked data, and record cleanup can be a daunting endeavor.

“We are privileged to have Casey’s stellar customer-facing expertise help drive our technology-driven approach to fulfill the requirements and needs of the library community. Her positive outlook and deep history of customizing solutions for customers can be applied in a broader scope going forward.”

About Backstage Library Works

Backstage’s objective is to provide the most technologically advanced, high quality, yet efficient means for delivering professional library services. With over 25 years of experience, the company is known for its expertise in handling complex and unique projects. Backstage specializes in solutions for cataloging, authority control, digitization, preservation microfilm, and on-site needs. In providing services to more than a thousand libraries, large and small, public and private, and in locations across the globe, Backstage has cultivated an understanding of libraries, their mission, their operations, and the challenges they face. Backstage offices are located in Provo, Utah, and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

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Facet Publishing have announced the release of the 5th edition of Phil Bradley’s Expert Internet Searching.

In the fifth edition of Expert Internet Searching, author Phil Bradley targets the recent phenomena of fake news. Bradley explains why it occurs, how it can be identified and how information professionals can lead the charge in combating it.

First published in 1999 (as The Advanced Internet Searcher’s Handbook), Expert Internet Searching covers the basics of search before going into detail on how to run advanced and complex searches using a variety of different search engines. The new edition references over 300 search engines and associated search tools and has been updated to include current trends including social media search, visual search, and discussion of the authority and validity of search results.

Bradley said, “We all still see the rather silly claim that ‘it’s all on Google, so why do we need libraries and librarians?’ but I firmly believe that information professionals are needed now more than ever. It’s part of our role to help stem the tide of fake news, to open people’s eyes to the rich abundance of information available in so many different formats, and to assist them in working out what they need to know and the best way of getting it. When I was a child and I told my careers officer that I wanted to be a librarian she said ‘is it because you like books?’ and I said ‘No, it’s because I want the power’.

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Press and review copies contact:
James Williams, Marketing Manager, Facet Publishing
Tel: +44 (0)20 7255 0597
Email: james.williams@facetpublishing.co.uk

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More information: http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=302475
Link to the cover image: https://www.booksonix.co.uk/facetpublishing/9781783302475.jpg

Expert Internet Searching | Jun 2017 | 248pp | paperback: 9781783302475 | £59.95 | hardback: 9781783302482 | £119.95 | eBook: 9781783302499

The book is published by Facet Publishing and is available from Bookpoint Ltd | Tel: +44 (0)1235 827702 | Fax: +44 (0)1235 827703 | Email: facet@bookpoint.co.uk | Web: www.facetpublishing.co.uk. | Mailing Address: Mail Order Dept, 39 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4TD. It is available in North America from the American Library Association.

Phil Bradley is a renowned information specialist, internet consultant and conference speaker specializing in search. He has worked with a number of search engine companies to help them improve their products, and has a popular blog on internet search. He teaches internet search and social media skills to librarians and information professionals both within the UK and abroad. Phil was the CILIP (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) President for two years (2012–13). He also writes a column in the CILIP Update magazine and his previous titles with Facet Publishing include Social Media for Creative Libraries (2015).