The RSC Chair and Secretary were very sad to hear from ORDAC Chair Michela Goodwin that Charlotte Christensen is having to step down from the RSC to focus on her health.
The latest release to RDA Toolkit took place on October 9 and includes to changes the wording of authorized and preferred access points across all entities. There are corrections and fixes based on feedback submitted to RDA Toolkit and changes to the Guidance chapter on Aggregates.
A Spanish language translation of official RDA is now available in the RDA Toolkit.
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Robert L. Maxwell as RSC Chair Elect.
At our July Meeting, the RDA Steering Committee was pleased to welcome for the first time the RSC Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean, Filiberto Felipe Arellano.
We are pleased to announce the creation of the RDA Latin America and Caribbean Group, a new regional body established with the aim of strengthening collaboration, knowledge sharing, and capacity building around the implementation of RDA in our region.
The July Meeting of the RDA Steering Committee takes place asynchronously from today until Thursday, with a synchronous Executive Session today (14 July) and a Public Session tomorrow (15 July).
The RSC has opened the recruitment process for the next chair of the RDA Steering Committee. As set out in RSC/Operations/1:
RSC Chair Renate Behrens is delighted that Dr Michalis Gerolimos (Head of the Cataloguing Department, National Library of Greece) has agreed to speak at the RSC's next Public Session on Tuesday 15 July 2025 at 6pm UTC (There is a handy time converter here).
The latest release to RDA Toolkit took place on June 6 and contains some modest changes to the standard. It includes corrections and fixes based on feedback submitted to RDA Toolkit and changes to the Guidance chapter on Aggregates. Policy statements have been added by the British Library, Library and Archives Canada, the New Zealand National Library, and U.S.