RSC Heading to Santiago for Annual Meeting
The RDA Steering Committee (RSC) will convene in Santiago, Chile for its annual meeting during the week of October 21-25. The RSC will be hosted by the Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile.
Conferences and Events
Practical Implications: A Look at Cataloguing a Book Using the New RDA
On August 21 of this year, the European RDA Interest Group, along with the IFLA Cataloguing Section and the IFLA Committee on Standards, sponsored an IFLA World Library and Information Congress satellite meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece, at the Central Library of Aristotle University.
RDA at ALA Annual Conference
RDA Toolkit Redesign Workshop
Friday, June 21st - 8:30 am-4:00 pm
Location: WCC - Rm 144B-C
RDA in Brazil
The first ever RDA Meeting in Brazil is set to take place next month.
Outreach Event in Montréal
The RDA Steering Committee (RSC) met on the campus of McGill University in Montréal during the week of October 22-26 (more on this meeting to come). Before the start of the meeting, the RSC took part in an outreach event at the the Grande Bibliothèque, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BANQ).
Diversity of Data Event: Presentations Available
We are pleased to provide all presentations and notes from the Diversity of Data: RDA in the international context at the National Library of Malaysia this past August. We do not have the welcome address available here but were very appreciative to Dato Nafisah binti Ahmad, Director General at the National Library of Malaysia, for starting off this event.
A Practical Introduction to the New RDA Toolkit
At the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans in June, the members of the RDA Steering Committee and friends organized a day-long event called "A Practical Introduction to the New RDA Toolkit". If you missed the event, you can still learn a thing or two about the new RDA Toolkit through slides and video from the event, all linked below.
Diversity of Data: RDA in the international context
Presentations for this event can be found here: rdatoolkit.org/IFLA
Event: Diversity of Data: RDA in the international context
Date: Thursday 23 August
Location: University of Technology Malaysia (UTM), Azman Hashim Hall
RDA at ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans
RDA Toolkit and the RDA Steering Committee will host three events at the ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans. We hope you are able to join us for one or all of these events.
What happened in Florence--EURIG 2017
Last month the European RDA Interest Group, also known as EURIG, met for their seventh annual meeting. The first day of the meeting was held at Università degli Studi di Firenze in Florence and the second day was held in the nearby town of Fiesole, home of host Casalini Libri.
