Europe - News and Announcements
2025
New RSC Chair Elect
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Robert L. Maxwell as RSC Chair Elect, effective January 2026. The current RSC Representative for North America, and a well-known figure in the US cataloguing community, Robert is looking forward to stepping fully into the international role as Chair Elect. As Chair Elect, Robert will spend 2026 learning the role from current Chair Renate Behrens, who will support him through 2027 as Past Chair. Robert's term as Chair will end in 2030 and then he, in turn, will serve 2031 as Past Chair. Current Chair Renate Behrens was the first RSC Chair appointed from a Region that was not part of the historic Anglo-American cataloguing community, she was appointed with a mandate to increase awareness of RDA internationally and to advance the RDA Board’s and RSC’s strategic aim of internationalisation. She has done so using skills developed during her long experience in IFLA committees and as a former staff member of the DNB. She has been steadily working through each of the liaison arrangements the RSC has with other bodies, updating existing protocols and forging new ones, and, most importantly, ensuring that they represent real and active working relationships. She has also led the RSC to create disciplinary-based Advisory Working Groups - the Religions in RDA Working Group is an Advisory Working Group now, the Archives Working Group has started its programme of activities and the Music Working Group is currently establishing itself. Renate said, “During his year as Chair Elect, Robert will be by my side as we continue to update our protocols and ensure that the present Working Groups have everything they need from the RSC. We are extremely fortunate to have recruited someone who has such a strong background in thinking, writing about and presenting Cataloguing Theory. This will be a great asset to the RDA community worldwide as it transitions to Official RDA. What a great opportunity for RDA cataloguers outside North America to hear about RDA from the author of Maxwell’s handbooks and other publications. I am delighted that Robert is keen to continue the international focus of our work and look forward to working more closely with him until the end of 2027 when I end my role as Past Chair.”
Creation and acceptance of the RDA Latin America and the Caribbean Group (RDA-ALyC)
In the July Meeting of the RDA Steering Committee they welcomed for the first time the RSC Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean, Filiberto Felipe Arellano. In his update in the Public Session pleased to announce the creation and acceptance by the RSC of the RDA Latin America and Caribbean Group, a new regional body established with the aim of strengthening collaboration, knowledge sharing, and capacity building around the implementation of RDA in their region. The Chair of RDA-ALyC is Ángela Quiroz Ubierna from the Library of the National Congress in Chile, who is also an RDA Board Member representative for Latin America and the Caribbean. The EURIG’s Executive Committee would like to welcome the RDA-ALyC and looks forward to collaborating in sharing and interchanging our knowledge on the use and implementation of RDA.
EURIG Annual Meeting
The EURIG Annual Meeting 2025 was held in Stockholm on May 22-23, and Luna Sindin Cordery from the Biblioteca de Catalunya was selected as the new Chair.
2024
EURIG is pleased to announce the EURIG representative to the RDA Steering Committee for 2025-2027 is Ahava Cohen, extending her position for a second term. In addition, Szabolcs Dancs will continue as back-up representative. EURIG is well-served by such knowledgeable and experienced representatives, and is grateful for their continued service.
Thank you, Ahava and Szabolcs.
At the EURIG Annual Meeting 15-16th May, 2024, EURIG elected Hannes Lowagie (KBR Royal Library of Belgium) as new vice-chair and Emilie Ullerup (Royal Danish Library) as new secretary.
2023
In May 4th, 2023 EURIG elected Jenny Wright (BDS) as its new chair.
5 May 2021 A new Executive Committee was elected at the Annual EURIG Members (Virtual) Meeting: Chair: Roberto Gómez Prada (Biblioteca Nacional de España); Vice-Chair: Liv D’Amelio (National Library of Sweden); Secretary: Szabina Ilácsa (National Széchényi Library).
RDA Toolkit Switchover To celebrate the switchover when the beta version of RDA Toolkit becomes the official version of the RDA standard on December 15, 2020 we invite you to join us online on 16th December at 10:30am CET to toast the future of RDA. During this Zoom meeting, there will be a chance to ask questions, these should be submitted in advance to Ahava Cohen
3 May 2019 A new Executive Committee was elected at the Annual EURIG Members Meeting: Chair: Ahava Cohen (National Library of Israel); Vice-Chair: Hanne Hørl Hansen (Danish Bibliographic Agency); Secretary: Jenny Wright (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals).
24 April 2019 An IFLA satellite meeting, RDA 2019, will be held by EURIG in conjunction with the IFLA Cataloguing Section and the IFLA Committee on Standards. The meeting will take place on 21 August, 2019, at the Central Library of Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece.
19 Feb 2019 The 2019 EURIG members meeting will take place on May 2-3, 2019, in Budapest, Hungary.
16 Jan 2018 JLIS.it Vol. 9, No. 1: An overview on RDA in Europe: EURIG2017 has been published. The issue includes articles based on presentations given at the Annual EURIG Seminar and Members' Meeting 2017.
20 Nov 2017 The 2018 EURIG members meeting will take place on May 24-25, 2018, in Copenhagen, Denmark. Details will follow.
10 May 2017 A new Executive Committee was elected at the Annual EURIG Members Meeting: Chair: Hanne Hørl Hansen (Danish Bibliographic Agency); Vice-Chair: Marja-Liisa Seppälä (National Library of Finland); Secretary: Ahava Cohen (National Library of Israel).
08-10 May 2017 The Annual EURIG Seminar and Members' Meeting 2017 took place at Aula Magna of the University of Florence, Sala del Basolato, and Villa la Torrossa, Florence and Fiesole, Italy. Speeches and presentations are available; the proceedings will also be published in JLIST.it (no. 1, January 2018).
23-25 May 2016 The Annual EURIG Seminar and Members' Meeting 2016 took place at the National Library of Latvia, Riga. A final program, seminar presentations, minutes and outcomes of the Members' Meeting, and a discussion document on the EURIG transition to RDA Europe region are available.
14 Apr 2015 The Annual EURIG Members Meeting 2015 took place at the Swiss National Library, Bern. Meeting outcomes are available.
25 Apr 2014 The Annual EURIG Members Meeting 2014 took place at Austrian Library Network, Vienna. An agenda, meeting outcomes, several presentation slides, and a report on the JSC Places Working Group are available.
23 Apr 2014 EURIG presents the results of the EURIG survey on adoption of RDA – 2013, analysed by Katharine Gryspeerdt of the British Library. The survey was conducted in July 2013. and provides a snapshot of members' plans for RDA implementation and feedback from those institutions that have begun to apply RDA.
19-20 Sep 2013 The Annual EURIG Members Meeting 2013 took place at National Library of Sweden / Kungl. biblioteket, Stockholm. An agenda, minutes, information for delegates, meeting outcomes, notes on JSC proposals, and presentation slides are available
25 Mar 2013 The EURIG Working Group on Aggregates met at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.
21 Sep 2012 The Annual EURIG Members Meeting 2012 took place at Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid. A final agenda and minutes are available.
15 Aug 2012 The EURIG Working Group on Aggegrates met during the IFLA conference 2012 in Helsinki. Minutes of the meeting are available.
2 Aug 2012 The first proposals from EURIG to develop RDA have been submitted to JSC. They are published by JSC in the Community document series.
25 Jul 2012 EURIG presents the results of the EURIG survey on adoption of RDA – 2012, analysed by Katharine Gryspeerdt of the British Library. The survey was conducted in February and March 2012 and provides a snapshot of members' plans for RDA implementation. It also includes contextual information which may be of value to others who are also considering if or when to implement RDA. We hope that you find the results interesting and useful and that they will promote further collaboration among members.
27 Jan 2012 A EURIG technical meeting was held in Paris, hosted by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. A final agenda and outcomes are available.
8 Dec 2011 The inaugural meeting of EURIG was held in in Frankfurt am Main, hosted by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. A final agenda, outcomes of the meeting, and draft minutes are available.
27 Sep 2011 The formal launch of the European RDA Interest Group (EURIG) took place in Copenhagen. A press release is available. The EURIG Cooperation Agreement is also available, together with a EURIG Membership Application Form.
26 Aug 2011 A report on RDA in Europe: Report of the work in progress in France; proposal for a EURIG technical meeting in Paris is available.
8 Aug 2010 RDA in Europe: making it happen! A seminar organised by the European RDA Interest Group (EURIG) and the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) was held in Dronningesalen at the Royal Library in Copenhagen. Presentations, programme and list of attendees are available.
15–19 Jan 2010 Further discussions about EURIG took place during the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Boston, USA.
23-27 Aug 2009 Further discussions about a European RDA Interest Group took place during the World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Milan, Italy.
9-15 Jul 2009 The idea of a European RDA Interest Group was discussed during the American Library Association Annual Conference in Chicago, USA.