Renate Behrens, RSC Chair

Renate Behrens, RSC Chair

Renate Behrens in 2024

As Chair of the RDA Steering Committee (RSC), Renate Behrens has been committed to the further development and dissemination of RDA at an international level since 2023. She previously performed these tasks as European Representative of the European RDA Interest Group (EURIG). Multilingualism and cultural diversity as well as networking with colleagues worldwide are of particular concern to her.

In addition to this work, she has been internationally active in the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) for many years. The focus of this work in various sections is also standardisation, international cooperation and the further development of cataloguing for different user communities.

She passes on her knowledge to students at the University of Applied Sciences in the Department of Archives and Libraries in Munich.

Renate Behrens is a librarian and worked for many years at the German National Library in Frankfurt. Her work focussed on representation in and management of national and international committees.

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Image: Renate in November 2024 at the RSC Meeting in Washington. Photo by Anne Welsh.

News Items About Renate

Presentations and Outreach By Renate

Presentation DateTitlePresenter / AuthorSponsor / VenueNotes
22 May 2025RDA: A Standard on the Way to More PartnershipRenate Behrens and James HennellyEURIG Annual MeetingRecording also available
11 March 2025RDA Around the World - Updates from RSC ChairRenate BehrensRDA Toolkit YouTube Channel 
13 November 2024The RDA-DACH manual and the DACH Documentation PlatformRenate BehrensRSC / RDA ToolkitPresentation begins at 00:00:00
13 November 2024RDA Steering Committee Outreach DayRenate Behrens, Charlotte Christensen, Sally McCallum, Paul Frank, Kevin FordRSC / RDA Toolkit 
14 October 2024The Bibliographic UniverseRenate BehrensRDA in Israel: 10 Years On 
26 September 2024RDA, a World-wide StandardRenate BehrensXIII Encuentro Latinoamericano de Catalogacion Y Metadatos  
17 September 2024News from RDARenate BehrensBIBFRAME in Europe, HelsinkiPDF of slides
1 July 2024How to Implement RDARenate BehrensCC:DA, San Diego 
11 April 2024Internationalisation of cataloguing in cultural institutions with RDA using the example of the German-speaking regionRenate BehrensCeLISR 1(1) 
5 March 2024Lectio MagistralisRenate BehrensUniversity of FlorenceText | PDF poster
14 November 2023NARDAC Update Forum (including presentations on the Place/Jurisdiction Working Group; the Official Languages Working Group; the Extent Working Group; the Religions in RDA Working Group; and The RSC Working Groups)Esther Scheven, Hanoch Roniger, Thomas Brenndorfer, Gordon Dunsire, Alice Robinson, Patrick Harrington and Renate BehrensRDA Toolkit WebinarVideo recording available on the RDA Toolkit YouTube channel.
3 November 2023Nur was sich ändert bleibt. Die Standards RDA und ISBDMRenate BehrensCongress Bibliosuisse, ZurichAlso available from conference website.
28 September 2023RDA and Authority DataRenate BehrensVIAF Annual Meeting 2023 
7 September 2023RDA Toolkit: Construido para hoy y mañana = RDA Toolkit: Built for Today and TomorrowRenate BehrensXII Encuentro de Catalogación Metadatos RDA: Experiencias sobre la catalogación y organización de la información con RDA, Mexico City 
22 August 2023ISBDM and RDARenate BehrensWLIC 2023, Rotterdam 
18 August 2023Standards in Changing TimesRenate BehrensWLIC 2023 Satellite Meeting: Universal Bibliographic Control at the Crossroads - the Challenges of Unifying IFLA Bibliographic StandardsAlso available from the conference website.
11 July 2023Neues und Altes aus dem RSCRenate BehrensAG AV Ressourcen, July 2023 
25 May 2023RDA DACH und die DACH-DokumentationsplattformRenate Behrens and Barbara PfeiferBiblioCon 2023, Hannover 
5 May 2023RSC ReportRenate BehrensEURIG Annual Meeting, Athens 
4 May 2023Standards in changing timesRenate BehrensEURIG Annual Meeting, Athens 
17 November 2022The new official RDA Toolkit and its implementation in DACHRenate Behrens and Barbara PfeiferRDA in EuropeVideo recording on YouTube
12 October 2022Identifier als zentrales Instrument des entiätenbasierten MetadatentransfersRenate BehrensHerbsttagung der Fachgruppe Dokumentation des Deutschen Museumsbunds 
9 October 2022Mitmachen und gestalten: Von Agenturen, Interessengruppen und Wegen zur Beteiligung an der GNDRenate Behrens and Chantal KöpplForum Archiv 
24 June 2022Das Bild wird bunter, Das Erfolgsmodell RNAB und seine FolgenRenate BehrensKoop Litera 
31 May 2022Das neue RDA Toolkit und seine Umsetzung im deutschsprachigen RaumRenate Behrens and Barbara PfeiferGerman Library Congress, Leipzig 
22 January 2022Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité: community übergreifende Diskussion zur Entität "Werk" und "Ereignis"Renate BehrensForum Performing Arts (online) 
27 July 2018The Well-Tempered Catalogue: the new RDA Toolkit and music resourcesRenate Behrens, Damian Iseminger, and Daniel ParadisRecent developments in music cataloguing sessionPresentation at International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres, Leipzig, Germany
8 May 2017RDA - Chances and Perspectives. News from the Europe RegionRenate Behrens and Christian AlivertiEURIG Members Meeting 2017, University of FlorencePresentation at open seminar on RDA in Europe and Italy
14 October 2016RDA in EuropeRenate BehrensCentrum NUKAT, Warsaw, PolandPresentation at RDA Standard: Benefits and Problems to its Implementation
11 August 2016RDA, Cooperation in the Cultural and Heritage Sector - First Approaches in the German-Speaking CountriesRenate Behrens and Christian AlivertiIFLA World Library and Information Congress, Dublin, Ohio, USAPresentation at satellite meeting "RDA in the Wider World"

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