RSC Chair Renate Behrens (pictured), RDA publisher James Hennelly and RSC Chair Elect Robert L. Maxwell are looking forward to welcoming you to a webinar on 19 May 2026 to check in with everyone's progress on the Countdown Clock.
Today is the day! When you log into the Original Toolkit this morning, you will see a turquoise banner counting down to its withdrawal as a live product.
RSC Chair Renate Behrens was delighted to welcome Camilla Riis Petersen, Bibliographic Consultant, DBC Digital (pictured) to the Public Session of our April Meeting to update us on developments in Denmark.
This week the RSC was able to discharge the Extent Working Group, as it passes the baton to the String Encoding Scheme Working Group, whose first duty will be to see the Extent proposals through to completion.
RDA Examples Editor Jessica Grzegorski (pictured) has introduced a proposal on which feedback is requested ahead of the Public Session of the RSC in July.
At yesterday's RSC Public Session, voting members of the RSC approved RSC/TechnicalWG/2026/1 (with amendments proposed by RSC/TechnicalWG/2026/1/NARDAC) and RSC/TechnicalWG/2026/2 (with amendments proposed by RSC/TechnicalWG/2026/2/ORDAC).
As shared in yesterday's Public Session, the Archives Working Group is conducting a survey of Archives to gain an understanding of their awareness and use (or otherwise) of RDA.
RSC Chair Renate Behrens (pictured) is happy to welcome RSC members and observers to the Public Session of the April Meeting.
We are grateful to Camilla Riise Petersen (Bibliographic Consultant, DBC Digital) for her presentation on RDA Implementation in Denmark. The recording of Camilla's presentation will be shared as soon as possible after the meeting.
In the Joint Meeting of the RDA Board and RDA Steering Committee yesterday, National Institution Representative to the RDA Board Ángela Quiroz Ubierna and RSC Representative to Latin America and the Caribbean Felipe Martinez (pictured) shared news of a range of events in Latin America, some organised by ALyC and others organised by the wider range of cataloguing organizations in the Region.&nbs
At yesterday's Joint Meeting of the RDA Board and RDA Steering Committee, Hannes Lowagie, the National Institution Representative for Europe to the RDA Board, provided an overview of his initial analysis of EURIG's survey.
