Ahava Cohen, RSC Representative for Europe

Ahava Cohen, RSC Representative for Europe

Renate Behrens smiling at the camera, in front of a marble wall.

Ahava Cohen holds a doctorate in Information Science from Bar Ilan University, where she focused on implementations of RDA in academic libraries. She is head of the Cataloguing Section at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem and serves on the steering committees of the Israeli Union List and the Israeli National Authority File. Ahava teaches cataloguing and technical services courses in the MLIS program at David Yellin College and provides training for public libraries through the Israel Center for Libraries. She also leads Israel’s national continuing education program for cataloguers.

Ahava has published in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, JLIS.it, Catalogue & Index, and Judaica Librarianship and is a frequent lecturer on the intersection of cataloguing and research, particularly in the field of Jewish Studies, and on multi-lingual/multi-script cataloguing. 

A member of EURIG since 2016, she has held roles as Executive Secretary, Chair, and backup Europe Representative to the RSC, and is now serving her second term as Europe Representative. Ahava chairs the RDA Board/RSC Joint Working Group on Artifical Intelligence (AI).

News Items About Ahava

Presentations by Ahava

Presentation DateTitlePresenter / AuthorSponsor / VenueNotes
2 February 2026EURIG: First Among EqualsAhava CohenRDA in Europe and the World, RSC/RDA Toolkit YouTubePresentation starts at 1:32:13
2 February 2026RDA in Europe and the WorldRenate Behrens, Szabolcs Dancs, Elisa Sze, James Hennelly, Ahava Cohen, and invited speakersRSC / RDA Toolkit YouTubeThis is the link to the whole event recording. See above for individual start times.
23 May 2025Joint RDA Board and RSC Working Group on Artificial IntelligenceAhava CohenEURIG Annual Meeting 
22 May 2025Report from the Europe Representative to the RSCAhava CohenEURIG Annual Meeting 
21 October 2024RSC / RDA Board Joint Working Group on Artificial IntelligenceAhava CohenNARDAC / RDA ToolkitPresentation begins at 01:59:04
21 October 2024NARDAC Fall Update ForumAhava Cohen and othersNARDAC / RDA Toolkit 
15 May 2024Report from the Europe Representative to the RSCAhava CohenEURIG Annual Meeting, National Library of FinlandPowerPoint (officeapps.live) of slides
15 May 2024Record Imports with the Translation Power of the RDA RegistryAhava CohenEURIG Annual Meeting, National Library of FinlandPDF of slides
5 May 2023Report from the Europe Representative to the RSCAhava CohenEURIG Annual Meeting, Athens 
4 May 2023To Boldly Go: RDA in Non-Latin ScriptsAhava CohenEURIG Annual Meeting, Athens 
3 April 2023Hey, you! Cataloging and grammatical genderAhava CohenNARDAC Spring ForumVideo recording available on the RDA Toolkit YouTube channel
17 November 2022Update on the October 2022 RSC meetingAhava CohenRDA in EuropeVideo recording on YouTube
14 November 2022“It’s not you, it’s (all of) us”: Internationalizing RDAAhava CohenNARDAC Update ForumVideo recording begins at 4:14
28 October 2022Nomen, nomen everywhere: Name authorities, internationalization and RDAAhava Cohen5to. Coloquio sobre RDA (Recursos, Descripción y Acceso) en América Latina y el CaribeVideo recording available on YouTube
10 May 2022Report from the Europe Representative to the RSC EURIG Annual Meeting, 2022Ahava CohenEURIG Virtual Annual Meeting 

 

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