Renate Behrens (RSC Chair) and the rest of the RDA Steering Committee are pleased to invite observers to the Public Session of the RSC Meeting on 16 April 2024 (online).

Following on from her Report on approaches to teaching RDA in the LIS classroom (RSC/Papers/2022/1), RSC Education and Orientation Officer Elisa Sze has worked with ALA Digital Reference to produce RDA Teaching & Training Tips, a handout for educators and trainers.

In 2022, Elisa Sze, Education and Orientation Officer, published a “Report on Approaches to Teaching RDA in the LIS Classroom”.

A new release was posted to RDA Toolkit last week. The March 2024 release includes light changes to RDA content, the introduction of the new Community Resources space, and the additon of the Orientation version of the Guidance menu in French and Finnish languages.

The RSC would like to thank its Technical Working Group for its proposal to revise the element hierarchy for appellations of work groups. RSC/TechnicalWG/2024/1 has been published today on the RSC website and archived (with stable URI) to ALAIR.

The RDA Board, an international group of library professionals, is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the development of RDA and ensuring good governance of the project. They also have a role to play in raising the profile of RDA in their region.

Do you have any questions about the training for the official RDA? What are the most challenging aspects of RDA trainings with the RDA Toolkit? Compared with the original RDA, how can one trainer adapt themselves and train others to use the official RDA Toolkit? If you have those questions, please come to the 2024 NARDAC Spring Update Forum.

The RSC would like to thank the Oceania RDA Committee (ORDAC) for its proposal on dual-naming of corporate body and place. RSC/ORDAC/2024/1 has been published today on the RSC website and archived (with stable URI) to ALAIR.

This presentation by Damian Iseminger, the Technical Committee Liaison Officer to the RDA Steering Committee, the structure of RDA, the relationship between entities and their elements, and how this structure might inform decisions about what elements to use. The presentation was given online on February 26, 2024.

The RSC is happy to inform you that we've published the following documents and archived them to the institutional repository: