RSC

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 would like to once again thank Ebe Kartus for her presentation to the RSC Public Session on 8 April, 'RDA Toolkit, Only the Toolkit, and Nothing but the Toolkit', which is now available to (re)watch on the RDA Toolkit YouTube channel. 

Having presented it to the RDA Board and Steering Committee at their Joint Meeting on Monday 7 April, the RSC Chair and Secretary are pleased to publish the RSC Annual Report for 2024 (RSC/AnnualReport/2024). 

RSC Chair Renate Behrens (pictured) is looking forward to welcoming observers to the Public Session of the RDA Steering Committee Meeting on Tuesday 8 April. 

Given the popularity of the presentation given by Michaela Edelmann and Mathias Manecke (DNB (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek)) at our last Public Session, RSC Chair Renate Behrens is delighted that Ebe Kartus (NLNZ (Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National Library of New Zealand)) has agreed to provide an update and share lessons learn

The Minutes of our January meeting (RSC/Minutes/500-507) have been published on the website and archived to ALAIR. 

At its upcoming Public Session on 8 April, the RSC will be discussing a proposal from NARDAC which seeks to accommodate a range of numbers that are associated with a given name and that are an integral part of the name.

During its Executive Session on 21 January, the RDA Steering Committee joined RSC Chair Renate Behrens in congratulating Charlotte Christensen on her appointment for a second term as Oceania Representative. 

At its January Meeting the RDA Steering Committee approved the publication of the Minutes of its Meeting held in November 2024 at the American Library Association Washington Office and the Library of Congress (RSC/Minutes/483-499).