Welcome to the North American RDA Committee
 

The North American RDA Committee (NARDAC) is the entity responsible for representing the North American region (Bermuda, Canada, Greenland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, and the United States of America) on the RDA Steering Committee.

Please see the terms of reference (English | French) for more information concerning NARDAC.

NARDAC may be contacted by using the email nardacchair@rdatoolkit.org.

American Library Association

Appointments to NARDAC from the American Library Association are governed by Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures. Further documentation is available from the Metadata and Collections Section Handbook.

Robert Maxwell
2021-
NARDAC Representative to the RSC (2022- )
Special Collections and Ancient Languages Catalog Librarian
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT

Adam L. Schiff
2022-
Principal Cataloger
University of Washington Libraries
Seattle, WA

Canadian Committee on Cataloguing

Library and Archives Canada is represented on NARDAC through the Canadian Committee on Cataloguing. Further information is available from CCC.

Thomas Brenndorfer
Co-chair (2025-     )
2018-
Guelph Public Library
Ontario
Canada
Email: nardacchair@rdatoolkit.org

Hong Cui
2023-
Library and Archives Canada
Gatineau, Québec
Canada

Library of Congress

Melanie Polutta
2019-
Policy, Training, and Cooperative Programs Division
Library of Congress
Washington, DC
USA

Trina Soderquist
2025-
Policy, Training, and Cooperative Programs Division
Library of Congress
Washington, DC
USA
 

French-speaking representative

Daniel Paradis
Co-chair (2025-     )
2024-
Bibliographic Standards Librarian
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
Montréal, Québec
Canada
Email: nardacchair@rdatoolkit.org

 

Library Science education representative

Shawne Miksa
2024-
Professor, Library and Information Science
Dept. of Information Science
University of North Texas
USA

Past members of NARDAC