News & Information

RSC Chair Renate Behrens and RSC Meeting host Judith Cannan would like to invite you to an outreach day at the Library of Congress / online on Wednesday 13 November.

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.

The RDA Steering Committee (RSC) is keen to explore ways in which RDA is of interest and use to those documenting archival resources, and the synergy that can exist between RDA and other standards and guidelines for cataloguing and documentation.

RSC Chair Renate Behrens would like to thank RDA Board member Judith Cannan and her Library of Congress colleagues for hosting the RSC Meeting in November.

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? 

Ed Jones, a serials authority in the field and a major contributor to the 3R Project, here updates his authoritative text. Reflecting the new modelling for serials introduced by IFLA’s Library Reference Model in the most recent revisions to RDA, this up-to-date resource is an important tool for day-to-day practice as well as a reference manual for unusual or difficult cases. 

The Minutes of the RSC Meeting in July (RSC/Minutes/469-482) are available on the RSC website and, with permanent URI, on ALAIR. 

The National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa has announced that beginning August 1, 2024, they are using the Official RDA Toolkit to describe print and digital monographs and are aiming to describe all formats using the Official RDA Toolkit by the end of this year. 

The July 2024 release is a small one. The only significant editorial change to report is the revision to the data provenance instructions in Guidance. There were, as usual, corrections to typos, bad links and other minor issues, as well as the addition of new examples.

Members of the RSC would like to add their congratulations to those of the American library community on the award of the Margaret Mann Citation to Robert Maxwell, who, amongst his many roles is the North American Representative to the RSC.