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Broken-World Vocabularies
A new article by Daniel Lovins and Diane Hillmann looks at RDA and Bib frame in the context of vocabulary maintenance and repair. Check it out at D-Lib Magazine.
RDA Board Appointments
The RDA Board, which is responsible for setting the strategic direction for the development of RDA, will meet next month in London. In anticipation of the April meeting the Board recently announced the current appointments for the April meeting.
Cataloging with RDA eCourse
This popular course led by Magda El-Sherbini, author of RDA: Strategies for Implementation, is returning.
Spring RDA Event scheduled for May in Chicago
The RDA Steering Committee has announced a community outreach event in Chicago on Tuesday, May 16th. It will be a day-long event that will be attended by an extended RSC group (full RSC plus working group chairs) and will feature an open discussion of the most pressing RDA issues, including the LRM-related revisions and the redesign of the toolkit.
National Archive Adopting RDA
Late last year the National Archive of the United States announced that it would adopt RDA as its standard for authority records. In a blog post dated December 20, 2016, David S.
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What Happened at Midwinter?
There was a lot of discussion at midwinter about the 3R Project about the IFLA-Library Reference model. Summaries and other information about the RDA events are now available online.
ALCTS presents: Cataloging, Gender, and RDA Rule 9.7
Amber Billey, Metadata Librarian at Columbia University Libraries, will lead a discussion on Wednesday, 3/15 at 2:00 PM (Eastern) on the example of RDA rule 9.7.
RSC announcement regarding IFLA-LRM
Following their November meeting in Frankfurt, the RDA Steering Committee (RSC) announced their plans for the implementation of IFLA's Library Reference Model (LRM) in RDA.