News & Information

The latest release to RDA Toolkit took place on February 9 and contains some modest changes to the standard. It includes corrections to the English version of the Toolkit. Policy statements have been added by the Library and Archives Canada and the New Zealand National Library, with significant additions from the British Library and U.S.

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. 

Eliza Sze, Education and Orientation Officer, created and shared RDA Toolkit teaching slides and templates to be accessed and used for free online here.

Following approval from the RDA Board at its December Meeting and from the RSC at its November Meeting, the White Paper Considering AI in the Growth of RDA has been published as RSC/Papers/2025/1. 

At December's meeting of the RDA Board, the specific dates for the countdown clock were set as follows:

Join us this December and January for virtual presentations from RDA board members. 

The RDA board will host a series of webinars to discuss the impact of RDA on their cataloging and metadata practices and how their parts of the world are addressing the obstacles and challenges of official RDA. 

The RSC is pleased to announce the publication of its first set of Template RDA Teaching Slides (download here).

At its meeting in Washington last week, the RSC set the dates for its meetings in 2025. They will all take place asynchronously via Basecamp with some synchronous Zoom meetings, including the following Public Sessions, to which anyone can register as an observer:

The RSC would like to thank everyone who attended its Public Session on Tuesday (12 November) and its Outreach Day yesterday (Wednesday 13 November).

The recording of the Outreach Day presentations is now available, with thanks to the Library of Congress: