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ALA Annual Preconference Event. Friday 6/27, all day (8:00am-4:00pm) paid event. 

** Participants should bring a laptop to participate in this pre-conference event.** 

A Catalan translation of the official RDA: Resource Description and Access standard is now available on RDA Toolkit. It can be accessed by anyone with a subscription.

The North American RDA Committee (NARDAC) Update Forum is a biannual event aimed at bringing together experts in the field of library and information science to present/discuss developments in RDA and RDA-related cataloging work.

The latest release to RDA Toolkit took place on February 9 and contains some modest changes to the standard. It includes corrections to the English version of the Toolkit. Policy statements have been added by the Library and Archives Canada and the New Zealand National Library, with significant additions from the British Library and U.S.

Eliza Sze, Education and Orientation Officer, created and shared RDA Toolkit teaching slides and templates to be accessed and used for free online here.

Join us this December and January for virtual presentations from RDA board members. 

The RDA board will host a series of webinars to discuss the impact of RDA on their cataloging and metadata practices and how their parts of the world are addressing the obstacles and challenges of official RDA. 

The latest release to RDA Toolkit took place on September 29 and contains no significant changes to the standard. It does include corrections to the English, Finnish and French versions of the Toolkit. Policy statements have been added, with significant additions from Library and Archives Canada and the National Library of New Zealand.

Are you interested in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cataloging? Do you wonder how to streamline the cataloging process by automating repetitive tasks and ensuring consistency in metadata creation?  What is the impact, including potential uses and threats, of AI presents in the production of RDA?