News & Information

The Minutes of the RSC Meeting in July (RSC/Minutes/469-482) are available on the RSC website and, with permanent URI, on ALAIR. 

The National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa has announced that beginning August 1, 2024, they are using the Official RDA Toolkit to describe print and digital monographs and are aiming to describe all formats using the Official RDA Toolkit by the end of this year. 

The July 2024 release is a small one. The only significant editorial change to report is the revision to the data provenance instructions in Guidance. There were, as usual, corrections to typos, bad links and other minor issues, as well as the addition of new examples.

Members of the RSC would like to add their congratulations to those of the American library community on the award of the Margaret Mann Citation to Robert Maxwell, who, amongst his many roles is the North American Representative to the RSC. 

It is three weeks until the RSC's next Public Session, and we hope that you will be interested to attend as an observer.

As well as our usual updates, we will be discussing the latest proposal from the Religions in RDA Working Group, RSC/ReligionsWG/2024/1.

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ALA Publishing, acting on behalf of the copyright holders of RDA: Description and Access has signed an agreement with the Association of Ibero-American States for the Development of the National Libraries of Ibero-America (ABINIA) for a Spanish language translation of the official RDA Toolkit.

The RDA Steering Committee (RSC) is delighted that its Chair, Renate Behrens, has been awarded the IFLA Scroll of Appreciation at the IFLA General Assembly in the Hague today (20 June). 

RDA Around the World

Friday, June 28, 2024

9:00am -11:30am

Convention Center Room 30 ABCDE

Dr Ahava Cohen (Chair) and the other members* of the newly-formed Joint RDA Board and RSC Working Group on Artificial Intelligence (AI) are very keen to hear the views of the cataloging community on the use of Artificial Intelligence in cataloging.

Community Resources is a new area of RDA Toolkit that allows institutions and organizations to share critical cataloging documents for specific communities. In this webinar James Hennelly, director of RDA Toolkit, will demo Community Resources--how it is organized, who will contribute, and what to expect from the documents gathered there.