Could You Be Our New Wider Community Engagement Officer?
We are looking for a cataloguer / metadata manager / educator with expertise in RDA to succeed Charlene Chou as our Wider Community Engagement Officer (WCEO).
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Recruitment Underway for RSC Chair Elect
The RSC has opened the recruitment process for the next chair of the RDA Steering Committee. As set out in RSC/Operations/1:
Michalis Gerolimos to Speak on Official RDA at the National Library of Greece
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).
Elisa Sze Reappointed as RSC Education and Orientation Officer
At the RSC Meeting in November 2024, the committee confirmed that the temporary co-opted post of Education and Orientation Officer (2022-2023) should be counted as separate from the permanent post, and therefore end of December 2025 would be the end of the first term of the permanent post. A second term would be possible thereafter.
Elisa Sze, RSC Education and Orientation Officer
Elisa is a Metadata Librarian at the University of Toronto Libraries, where she supervises cataloguing of English language resources. She also teaches at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information (iSchool) as a sessional lecturer, leading a cataloguing course within their Master of Information program. From 2008 to 2019, she worked as Collections and Public Services Librarian at the iSchool, overseeing and managing a collection dedicated to library and information studies resources.
Chris Holden, RSC Technical Team Liaison Officer
Chris Holden is a Senior Music Cataloging Specialist in the Music Division of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., where he has worked since 2017. His work there involves cataloguing musical scores, including the division's extensive collections of first editions and manuscripts, as well as monographs on music. He previously worked as the assistant music librarian at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina.
Renate Behrens, RSC Chair
As Chair of the RDA Steering Committee (RSC), Renate Behrens has been committed to the further development and dissemination of RDA at an international level since 2023. She previously performed these tasks as European Representative of the European RDA Interest Group (EURIG). Multilingualism and cultural diversity as well as networking with colleagues worldwide are of particular concern to her.
Anne Welsh Reappointed as RSC Secretary
RSC Chair Renate Behrens and Director of ALA Digital Reference James Hennelly are very pleased to share that RSC Secretary Anne Welsh has agreed to stay on in post after the end of her initial term in December this year.
Szabolcs Dancs, RSC Translations Team Liaison Officer
Szabolcs Dancs holds a degree in General Linguistics, Library and Information Science and Polish Studies. He worked for seven years as a cataloguer of materials in English, Slavic and Finno-Ugric languages at the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS). There he organized and headed the Collection Development Department. Afterwards, he held several positions in the National Széchényi Library of Hungary (NSZL). As a project manager, he organized the retrospective cataloguing of 19th and early 20th century materials.
Anne Welsh, RSC Secretary
Dual qualified in Information Studies (MSc (Econ), Aberystwyth) and Publishing (MA, West Dean), Anne is a sole trader who lives in the London/Essex borders and works under the brand Beginning Cataloguing.