On behalf of the whole RDA Steering Committee and the observers at last night's Public Session, RSC Chair Renate Behrens would like to thank Aimee Hay (National State Libraries Australasia) for her pre-recorded presentation on the NSLA Official RDA Project.
In our November Meeting, RSC Members share their annual reports. These are published in the appendix to the Minutes and used by the RSC Chair and Secretary when they are drafting the RSC's Annual Report.
In last night's Public Session, Technical Team Liaison Officer Chris Holden (pictured) introduced the Technical Working Group's Discussion Paper on Soft-deprecated Parallel Elements which is now out for Community Review.
In last night's Public Session, the Chair of the Extent Working Group, Thomas Brenndorfer (pictured), introduced the 8 proposals that the Working Group has submitted for discussion in the Public Session of the January 2026 Meeting on Wednesday 21 January 2026 at 19:00 - 21:00 UTC.
At the Executive Session of the RSC November Meeting yesterday, RSC Chair Renate Behrens extended a very warm welcome to Jack Ennis Butler (pictured), who is attending his first meeting this week as RSC Representative for Oceania.
In the Executive Session of the RDA Steering Committee last night, the following dates were agreed for our meetings in 2026:
Monday 19 - Thursday 22 January
RDA Examples Editor Jessica Grzegorski (pictured) and her colleagues in the RBMS RDA Editorial Group have announced the publication of the RBMS Policy Statements (RBMS PS) in the RDA Toolkit.
RSC Education and Training Officer Elisa Sze (pictured) maintains a curated list of materials on our Learning Resources page, which many members of the RDA cataloguing community have told us they find useful.
The RSC Chair and Secretary were very sad to hear from ORDAC Chair Michela Goodwin that Charlotte Christensen is having to step down from the RSC to focus on her health.
