Trina Soderquist, RSC Representative Elect for North America

Trina Soderquist, RSC Representative Elect for North America

Trina Soderquist, a woman with curly black hair and dark eyes wearing black-framed glasses, smiling into the camera, in front of a modern sculpture of a foot.

Note: Trina Soderquist will succeed Robert L. Maxwell as RSC Representative for North America. Robert will stay on the RSC as Chair Elect 2026.

Trina Soderquist is currently a Cataloging Policy Specialist in the Policy, Training, and Cooperative Programs Division (PTCP) at the Library of Congress (LC) in Washington, D.C., United States.  She has held that position for over three years, and prior to that she was a cataloger for the Children’s and Young Adults’ Cataloging Program (CYAC), also at LC.  Before joining LC in 2016, she worked for over a decade in special academic libraries in the Boston, Massachusetts, area.

Trina joined the North American RDA Committee (NARDAC) in 2025 as one of LC’s two representatives.  She has worked with policy specialists and librarians at LC and in the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) on reviewing and developing the LC-PCC policy statements and Metadata Guidance Documents (MGDs) that will guide cataloguers in those communities as they apply the options in the official RDA Toolkit.  She was the LC liaison to the PCC RDA Communications Committee until recently, collecting and acting on feedback about the LC-PCC policy statements and MGDs.  From February 2022 until November 2023, as a member of another PCC task group, she helped design, conduct, and evaluate the PCC Test of the Official RDA Toolkit.  Since 2023, she has been a member of the PCC RDA Implementation Task Group, working to resolve outstanding questions about the PCC’s implementation of the official RDA Toolkit.  At the American Library Association (ALA) Annual conference in June 2025, Trina was one of several presenters at a preconference jointly hosted by NARDAC and the PCC’s RDA Training Task Group.  She also hosted NARDAC’s ALA Forum.

Trina has a Masters of Library and Information Science from Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

 

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