Charlene Chou, Wider Community Engagement Officer
Charlene Chou is Head of the Knowledge Access Department at New York University Libraries, where she oversees cataloguing and metadata services.
Charlene Chou is Head of the Knowledge Access Department at New York University Libraries, where she oversees cataloguing and metadata services.
Title: Proposal to Revise Name of Corporate Body
Document Number: RSC/ReligionsWG/2025/1
Author/Constituency: Prepared by the Religions Working Group
Document Type: Proposal
Year: 2025
Status: To be discussed at the November 2025 RSC Meeting.
Title: Scope note for Corporate Body
Document Number: RSC/NARDAC/2025/4
Author/Constituency: Prepared by NARDAC (North American RDA Committee)
Document Type: Proposal
Year: 2025
Status: The proposal will be discussed in the November 2025 RSC Meeting.
Title: Inconsistency in the transcribed manifestation elements related to source of information
Document Number: RSC/NARDAC/2025/3
Author/Constituency: Prepared by NARDAC (North American RDA Committee)
Document Type: Proposal
Year: 2025
Status: The proposal will be discussed in the November 2025 RSC Meeting.
Following the usual selection process, the RDA Steering Committee (RSC) is delighted to welcome Dr Getaneh Alemu as Wider Community Engagement Officer (WCEO) Elect.
Getaneh Alemu completed his PhD from the University of Portsmouth (2014), where he developed a theory of metadata enriching and filtering using a grounded theory method. He also holds an MA in Digital Library Learning (Oslo University College, 2009), an MA in Knowledge and Information Management (Ghent University, 2005) and a BA in Library and Information Science (Addis Ababa University, 2001).
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.
The Minutes and Decisions Documents from the July 2025 Meeting are now available as follows:
RSC Chair Renate Behrens would like to thank those who have responded to our call for a new Wider Community Engagement Officer (WCEO) to succeed Charlene Chou (pictured) when her second term ends in December.