Call for Participation: Music Working Group
The RSC has always recognised Music cataloguing as a specialism that is actively involved in the development of RDA.
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A Warm Welcome to Our New Latin America and the Caribbean Representative
The July Meeting of the RDA Steering Committee takes place asynchronously from today until Thursday, with a synchronous Executive Session today (14 July) and a Public Session tomorrow (15 July).
Filiberto Felipe Martinez Arellano, RSC Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean
Filiberto Felipe is full professor and researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in the Information Organization area. He teaches cataloguing and metadata standards courses at the undergraduate and graduate programs on Library Science and Information Studies at UNAM. Additionally, he has been Chair of the Cataloging Department and Assistant Director for Technical Services at UNAM General Direction for Libraries.
Agenda and Papers for RSC July Meeting, 15 July
RSC Chair Renate Behrens (pictured) is looking forward to welcoming you to the Public Session of the RDA Steering Committee on Tuesday 15 July at 6-8pm UTC (There is a handy time converter here).
Could You Be Our New Wider Community Engagement Officer?
[RSC Chair Renate Behrens thanks those who have applied for this position. The RSC Secretary will be in touch next week with information about next stages -- 1 August 2025].
We are looking for a cataloguer / metadata manager / educator with expertise in RDA to succeed Charlene Chou as our Wider Community Engagement Officer (WCEO).
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.