RSC News

We are looking for a cataloguer / metadata manager / educator with expertise in RDA to succeed Charlene Chou as our Wider Community Engagement Officer (WCEO). 

The RSC has opened the recruitment process for the next chair of the RDA Steering Committee. As set out in RSC/Operations/1:

RSC Chair Renate Behrens is delighted that Dr Michalis Gerolimos (Head of the Cataloguing Department, National Library of Greece) has agreed to speak at the RSC's next Public Session on Tuesday 15 July 2025 at 6pm UTC (There is a handy time converter here). 

At the RSC Meeting in November 2024, the committee confirmed that the temporary co-opted post of Education and Orientation Officer (2022-2023) should be counted as separate from the permanent post, and therefore end of December 2025 would be the end of the first term of the permanent post. A second term would be possible thereafter.

RSC Chair Renate Behrens and Director of ALA Digital Reference James Hennelly are very pleased to share that RSC Secretary Anne Welsh has agreed to stay on in post after the end of her initial term in December this year. 

RSC Chair Renate Behrens is delighted that Jessica Grzegorski has accepted the offer of a second term as RDA Examples Editor and Chair of the Examples Working Group. 

The Minutes of the April RSC Meeting (RSC/Minutes/508-520) are available now from this website or from the institutional repository (with stable URI). 

Topics discussed include:

RDA Board Chair Colleen Barbus and RSC Chair Renate Behrens are pleased to make available the Minutes of the latest Joint Meeting of the RDA Board and the RSC. 

Following Ebe Kartus's presentation at the RDA Public Session on 8 April, RSC Oceania Representative Charlotte Christensen (pictured) shared further information at the NARDAC Forum on the Practical Implementation of Official RDA at NLNZ. 

She shared that the metadata team's key implementation notes so far are 

RSC Chair Renate Behrens (pictured), Michele Casalini (Casalini Libri) and Martin Knott, Nina Servizzi, Jackie Shieh and Nancy Fallgren (Share Family Advisroy Council) are pleased to share the new Protocol Between the RDA Steering Committee and the Share Family / Share-VDE Advisory Council (RSC/Chair/2025/9).