Conferences and Events

Practical Implications: A Look at Cataloguing a Book Using the New RDA

On August 21 of this year, the European RDA Interest Group, along with the IFLA Cataloguing Section and the IFLA Committee on Standards, sponsored an IFLA World Library and Information Congress satellite meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece, at the Central Library of Aristotle University. The program covered a wide range of RDA topics and included speakers from Africa, Europe and North America.

Outreach Event in Montréal

The RDA Steering Committee (RSC) met on the campus of McGill University in Montréal during the week of October 22-26 (more on this meeting to come). Before the start of the meeting, the RSC took part in an outreach event at the the Grande Bibliothèque, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BANQ). The event was entitled The redesigned RDA Toolkit: what you need to know to get ready and was conducted as a bilingual event with presentations in both French and English with simultaneous translation available to attendees.

A Practical Introduction to the New RDA Toolkit jhennelly Sun, 07/01/2018 - 22:42

At the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans in June, the members of the RDA Steering Committee and friends organized a day-long event called "A Practical Introduction to the New RDA Toolkit". If you missed the event, you can still learn a thing or two about the new RDA Toolkit through slides and video from the event, all linked below. 

NOTE: The beta site is a work in progress and is not yet approved by the RDA Steering Committee for use in cataloging. 

Slides of the presentations can be found here.

Diversity of Data: RDA in the international context kbane Mon, 06/11/2018 - 11:10

Presentations for this event can be found here: rdatoolkit.org/IFLA

Event: Diversity of Data: RDA in the international context

Date: Thursday 23 August

Location: University of Technology Malaysia (UTM), Azman Hashim Hall

RDA at ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans kbane Mon, 04/30/2018 - 12:48

RDA Toolkit and the RDA Steering Committee will host three events at the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans. We hope you are able to join us for one or all of these events.

What happened in Florence--EURIG 2017 jhennelly Mon, 06/05/2017 - 10:53

Last month the European RDA Interest Group, also known as EURIG, met for their seventh annual meeting. The first day of the meeting was held at Università degli Studi di Firenze in Florence and the second day was held in the nearby town of Fiesole, home of host Casalini Libri. All the presentations and the program for the event are now available at http://www.casalini.it/eurig2017/#3

RDA at ALA Annual 2017 jhennelly Thu, 06/01/2017 - 08:57

RDA Toolkit and the RDA Steering Committee will host two events at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. We hope you are able to join us for one or both of these events.

 

RDA Forum

10:30-11:30 am, Saturday, June 24

McCormick Place, W196c