News & Information

A very warm welcome to our July Meeting from RSC Chair Renate Behrens (pictured). 

RSC Chair Renate Behrens (pictured) is looking forward to welcoming observers to the Public Session of the RSC on Tuesday 28 July at 6:00pm UTC. (There is a handy time converter here).

On 13-14 July, RSC Wider Community Engagement Officer Getaneh Alemu was delighted to welcome librarians from across sub-Saharan Africa to webinars on RDA delivered by RSC Education and Orientation Officer Elisa Sze (pictured). 

The RDA Mexico Group under sponsorship of the National Autonomous University of Mexico has organized the “RDA Webinar Series: RDA Concepts” for Spanish speaking catalogers. Its objective is to introduce participants with the essential RDA terminology and concepts on RDA for transitioning to Official RDAToolkit.

The RDA Steering Committee would like to thank Karen Pierce and Fran Frenzel, the editors of Catalogue and Index, for allowing us to present articles that we hope will help those transitioning to Official RDA this year, before Original RDA is withdrawn as a live product in May 2027. 

Like the February release, the June 2026 release is another light one. It includes a the addition of a few examples to guidance on normalized transcription. Updates and corrections were made to policy statements from the British Library, the U.S. Library of Congress - PCC, RMBS, OLAC, MLA, and the National Library of New Zealand.

Like the February release, the June 2026 release is another light one. It includes a the addition of a few examples to guidance on normalized transcription. Updates and corrections were made to policy statements from the British Library, the U.S. Library of Congress - PCC, RMBS, OLAC, MLA, and the National Library of New Zealand.

The RDA Steering Committee is pleased to host an introductory RDA webinar series for African cataloguers. This program will introduce attendees to foundational terminology and concepts found in Resource Description and Access (RDA), an international standard used for cataloguing and bibliographic data creation, and that is based on the IFLA Library Reference Model.

The RDA Steering Committee has approved publication of the minutes of the April Meeting. 

You can access them on the Minutes page of the website or on ALAIR.

El reloj de la cuenta regresiva para el RDA Toolkit Original comenzó a medianoche del 11 de mayo, hora de Hawái-Aleutianas (UTC -10). En este breve seminario web se explicará qué significa el reloj de cuenta regresiva para las instituciones de catalogación; qué pasará con el RDA Toolkit Original; y cómo realizar la transición a RDA Oficial.