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.
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.
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 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.
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.
RSC Chair Renate Behrens is delighted that Jessica Grzegorski has accepted the offer of a second term as RDA Examples Editor and Chair of the Examples Working Group.
Jessica Grzegorski is Rare Materials Metadata Librarian at Northwestern University in the United States, where she catalogues a diverse range of rare materials across the university libraries’ special collections. She has worked in the field of special collections cataloguing for nearly two decades and previously held positions at the Newberry Library, an independent research library in Chicago.
Title: Revision of two sets of condition and condition options for Corporate Body: variant access point for corporate body
Document Number: RSC/NARDAC/2025/2
Author/Constituency: Prepared by NARDAC (North American RDA Committee)
Document Type: Proposal
Year: 2025
Status: To be discussed in the July 2025 RSC Meeting.
Title: Proposal to revise Guidance: Aggregates and Guidance: Diachronic Works following from RSC/TechnicalWG/2024/2/rev/Decisions
Document Number: RSC/EOO/2025/1
The Minutes of the April RSC Meeting (RSC/Minutes/508-520) are available now from this website or from the institutional repository (with stable URI).
Topics discussed include:
