RDA at ALA Annual 2017
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.
10:30-11:30 am, Saturday, June 24
McCormick Place, W196c
News
RSC Presentations Now Available
A new page on the RDA Steering Committee (RSC) website collects together presentations by RSC members and friends of RDA.
RDA in Translation - Catalan
El 2015 es prengué l’acord de la publicació del text de l’RDA en català. L’editor original anglès, ALA Publishing i la BC signaren el contracte en què s’acordava la traducció catalana del text d’RDA Resource Description and Access.
RDA Toolkit Release - April 11, 2017
A new release of RDA Toolkit will be published on April 11, 2017. When there is a new release for RDA Toolkit, it is typically made on the second Tuesday of the month. Releases typically contain changes to content and metadata, enhancements to RDA Toolkit functionality, and fixes to existing bugs. You can subscribe to our RSS development feed to get notification of releases.
Broken-World Vocabularies
A new article by Daniel Lovins and Diane Hillmann looks at RDA and Bib frame in the context of vocabulary maintenance and repair. Check it out at D-Lib Magazine.
RDA Board Appointments
The RDA Board, which is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the development of RDA, will meet next month in London. In anticipation of the April meeting the Board recently announced the current appointments for the April meeting.
RDA-Related Resources
Print resources included here may be available in multiple formats including bundles of print/electronic formats. Please follow the links for further details.
Cataloging with RDA eCourse
This popular course led by Magda El-Sherbini, author of RDA: Strategies for Implementation, is returning.
Spring RDA Event scheduled for May in Chicago
The RDA Steering Committee has announced a community outreach event in Chicago on Tuesday, May 16th. It will be a day-long event that will be attended by an extended RSC group (full RSC plus working group chairs) and will feature an open discussion of the most pressing RDA issues, including the LRM-related revisions and the redesign of the toolkit.
National Archive Adopting RDA
Late last year the National Archive of the United States announced that it would adopt RDA as its standard for authority records. In a blog post dated December 20, 2016, David S.
