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With thanks to the RSC Representative for Oceania Jack Ennis Butler for hosting, the recording and slides are now available for today's brief webinar marking the start of the Countdown Clock year. 

RSC Chair Elect Robert L. Maxwell (pictured) and RDA publisher James Hennelly and are looking forward to welcoming you to a Countdown Clock webinar at 2:00am UTC. (There is a handy time converter here).

RSC Chair Elect Robert L.

With thanks to those who were able to attend live - especially attendees of the Utah Library Association Conference who accompanied RSC Chair Elect Robert L.

RSC Chair Renate Behrens (pictured), RDA publisher James Hennelly and RSC Chair Elect Robert L. Maxwell are looking forward to welcoming you to the first of the Countdown Clock webinars today. 

Felipe Martínez, representante del RSC para Latinoamérica y el Caribe, realizó una breve presentación para la comunidad del Grupo RDA México sobre el Reloj de Cuenta Regresiva. Puedes verla (en español) aquí.

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The Countdown Clock for the Original RDA Toolkit began on May 11. This short webinar will explain what the countdown clock means for cataloguing institutions; what will happen to the Original RDA Toolkit; and how to transition to Official RDA.

Today is the day! When you log into the Original Toolkit this morning, you will see a turquoise banner counting down to its withdrawal as a live product. 

RSC Chair Renate Behrens was delighted to welcome Camilla Riis Petersen, Bibliographic Consultant, DBC Digital (pictured) to the Public Session of our April Meeting to update us on developments in Denmark.

This week the RSC was able to discharge the Extent Working Group, as it passes the baton to the String Encoding Scheme Working Group, whose first duty will be to see the Extent proposals through to completion.