Observers welcome at 2015 JSC meeting

The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) will meet Nov. 2-6, 2015, in Edinburgh, Scotland, at the National Library of Scotland.

Observers are welcome at open sessions and are encouraged to attend. Sessions will be held from 9:00-17:00 in the Boardroom of the National Library of Scotland on George IV Bridge. The committee meets in closed executive sessions on Monday, Nov. 2, and at the end of Friday, Nov. 6.

The complete meeting agenda will be announced by mid-October.

The agenda for Thursday, Nov. 5, will include items on RDA and rare materials in the morning session, and on RDA and FRBR and RDA and serials in the afternoon session. These sessions are also open to observers.

Please contact both the JSC Chair, Gordon Dunsire and the JSC Secretary, Judy Kuhagen, if you want to attend any of the open sessions on Nov. 3-6.

The documents for the meeting and responses to those documents are being posted on the JSC website. They are arranged by constituency in the constituency proposals section. The documents for the November 2015 meeting are given at the beginning of the list of documents for each constituency. The deadline for proposals and discussion papers was in early August. The deadline for responses is October 5, 2015; the responses are posted as they are received. Click on a specific proposal or discussion paper to see constituency responses.

Date posted: 18 August 2015