ORDAC (the Oceania RDA Committee) has delivered a series of three webinars that may be of interest to anyone planning to move from Original RDA in MARC to Official RDA.
The RSC is very pleased to announce the appointment of Marcell Ottó Ormándy as Translations Team Liaison Officer Elect. Marcell will succeed Szabolcs Dancs as Translations Team Liaison Officer and Chair of the Translations Working Group on 1 January 2027, following a period of preparation which will include observing the RSC November Meeting and the monthly Executive Group Meetings.
Marcell Ottó Ormándy is Standards Librarian at the National Széchényi Library (NSZL) of Hungary in the Office for Library Standards, where he’s responsible for translating and managing ISO and Hungarian library standards. At his NSZL position he also works as a copyeditor and typesetter for the publications of the Hungarian Library Institute. He has previously worked as a retrospective cataloguer on a collection that contains many Central European, Russian and other Cyrillic materials, from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Although there is no in-person meeting of the RSC this year, we are pleased to announce that our usual outreach and training event will go ahead on Thursday 19 November at 19:00 - 21:00 UTC (There is a handy time converter here).
Technical Team Liaison Officer Chris Holden (pictured) has submitted the final two proposals dealing with soft-deprecated terms for discussion in the Public Session of the November Meeting of the RSC.
Title: Soft-deprecated parallel elements
Document Number: RSC/TechnicalWG/2026/5
Document Type: Proposal
Year: 2026
Status: RSC/TechnicalWG/2025/6 was published on 9 September 2026 for constituency review and discussion at the Public Session of the November 2026 RSC Meeting.
Title: Soft-deprecated “Note on” elements
Document Number: RSC/TechnicalWG/2026/5
Document Type: Proposal
Year: 2026
Status: RSC/TechnicalWG/2025/5 was published on 9 September 2026 for constituency review and discussion at the Public Session of the November 2026 RSC Meeting.
The RDA Steering Committee has approved publication of the minutes of the April Meeting.
You can access them on the Minutes page of the website or on ALAIR.
Observers at the RSC Public Session on 28 July may recall that the RSC approved the addition of terms for wood engraver, etc. and asked Translations Team Liaison Officer Szabolcs Dancs (pictured) to prepare a proposal to change the definition of engraver agent, etc. to make it clear that it is for intaglio techniques.
Title: Proposal to revise engraver agent, etc.
Document Number: RSC/TranslationsTLO/2026/3
Author/Constituency: Szabolcs Dancs, Translations Team Liaison Officer
Document Type: Proposal
Year: 2026