The RSC is very pleased to announce the appointment of Marcell Ottó Ormándy as Translations Team Liaison Officer Elect. Marcell will succeed Szabolcs Dancs as Translations Team Liaison Officer and Chair of the Translations Working Group on 1 January 2027, following a period of preparation which will include observing the RSC November Meeting and the monthly Executive Group Meetings.
The Hungarian translation of RDA is being developed by the Hungarian Library Institute at the National Széchényi Library since 2017. Since then, the Institute has translated the Registry, and is planning to release the full translation of the Toolkit by the end of 2026. This effort is a part of a greater transition to semantic cataloguing.
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.
A Spanish language translation of official RDA is now available in the RDA Toolkit.
A Catalan translation of the official RDA: Resource Description and Access standard is now available on RDA Toolkit. It can be accessed by anyone with a subscription.
ALA Publishing, acting on behalf of the copyright holders of RDA: Description and Access has signed an agreement with the Association of Ibero-American States for the Development of the National Libraries of Ibero-America (ABINIA) for a Spanish language translation of the official RDA Toolkit.
ALA Publishing, acting on the behalf of the Copyright Holders of RDA: Resource Description and Access, has signed an agreement with Federação Brasileira de Associações de Bibliotecários (FEBAB) in which the São Paulo-based organization will be responsible for the translation of the Portuguese-language version of the cataloguing, RDA: Resource Descriptio
This past November the La Biblioteca Nacional de España (BNE) announced that it will adopt RDA as the standard for cataloging its collection. The English translation of the announcement follows. The Spanish version of the announcement can be found here.
On March 8th, RDA Toolkit published the Italian language translation of RDA. The new translation is accessible to all with a subscription to RDA Toolkit. Users whose browser language preference is set to Italian will be automatically logged into the Italian version of RDA. Users may also log into to their profiles and set Italian as their preferred language.
In 2014 ALA Publishing, on behalf of the RDA Co-Publishers, signed an agreement on the Italian language rights translation in RDA: Resource Description and Access with the Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries (ICCU) that is responsible for the translation of the Italian language version of the new cataloguing standard.