April News Items from RSC
Linda Barnhart took on the role of RSC Secretary effective April 20, and can be reached at rscsecretary@rdatoolkit.org. Email sent to her former Secretary-Elect address will be automatically forwarded.
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Special RDA Event in Chicago May 16, 2017
The RDA Steering Committee (RSC) cordially invites interested catalogers and metadata application developers to a special, one-day event of focused discussion of some of the current challenges for RDA.
2016 Approved RDA Proposals
The final versions of the proposals approved by the RDA Steering Committee during and after the November 2016 meeting have been posted on this website. Access to these "Sec final" documents is available via the new documents page (http://rda-rsc.org/newrscdocs).
The changes in RDA will not be in effect until they appear in the April 2017 Update of RDA Toolkit.
Implementation of the LRM in RDA
The RDA Steering Committee (RSC) agreed at its November 2016 meeting to adopt the draft IFLA Library Reference Model (LRM) as a conceptual model for the development of RDA: Resource Description and Access, replacing the Functional Requirements family of models (FRBR, FRAD, and FRSAD) that are superseded by the LRM.