News & Information

RSC Chair Renate Behrens is delighted that Jessica Grzegorski has accepted the offer of a second term as RDA Examples Editor and Chair of the Examples Working Group. 

ALA Annual Preconference Event. Friday 6/27, all day (8:00am-4:00pm) paid event. 

** Participants should bring a laptop to participate in this pre-conference event.** 

The North American RDA Committee (NARDAC) Update Forum is a biannual event aimed at bringing together experts in the field of library and information science to present/discuss developments in RDA and RDA-related cataloging work.

The Minutes of our January meeting (RSC/Minutes/500-507) have been published on the website and archived to ALAIR. 

The latest release to RDA Toolkit took place on February 9 and contains some modest changes to the standard. It includes corrections to the English version of the Toolkit. Policy statements have been added by the Library and Archives Canada and the New Zealand National Library, with significant additions from the British Library and U.S.

During its Executive Session on 21 January, the RDA Steering Committee joined RSC Chair Renate Behrens in congratulating Charlotte Christensen on her appointment for a second term as Oceania Representative. 

Eliza Sze, Education and Orientation Officer, created and shared RDA Toolkit teaching slides and templates to be accessed and used for free online here.

Following approval from the RDA Board at its December Meeting and from the RSC at its November Meeting, the White Paper Considering AI in the Growth of RDA has been published as RSC/Papers/2025/1. 

At December's meeting of the RDA Board, the specific dates for the countdown clock were set as follows: