A Warm Welcome to Our New Latin America and the Caribbean Representative

The July Meeting of the RDA Steering Committee takes place asynchronously from today until Thursday, with a synchronous Executive Session today (14 July) and a Public Session tomorrow (15 July). On behalf of the whole RSC, our Chair Renate Behrens extends a warm welcome to Dr Filiberto Felipe Martinez Arellano (pictured) in his new role as the RSC Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean. 

Although this Region has been represented on the RDA Board for some time, this is the first time that we have had representation on the RSC. It follows the formal establishment of the Latin America and the Caribbean RDA Group (RDA ALyC), with Ángela Quiroz (Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile and RDA Board Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean) as Chair, Ana-María Quiroz (Biblioteca Nacional de Chile) as Secretary and Felipe Martinez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) as RSC Representative. 

Felipe has previously served as RDA Board Representative for the Region and has been involved in Latin America's cataloguing education and practice since the 1970s, including organising the Cataloging and Metadata Meeting, hosting the RDA Colloquium  in Latin America six times and being involved in the creation not only of RDA ALyC, but also the RDA Mexico Group and ABINIA (the Association of National Libraries from Latin-America). He is a well-known member of IFLA, including having been active in its Cataloguing Section over a number of years. He also coordinates the Spanish translation of RDA.

Renate Behrens and the rest of the RSC are very happy to welcome Felipe to his first RSC meeting today, and we look forward to benefiting from his experience as a distinguished academic, cataloguing theorist and practitioner. 

You can find out more about Felipe on his About page.