RDA Steering Committee (RSC)

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. 

At its January Meeting the RDA Steering Committee approved the publication of the Minutes of its Meeting held in November 2024 at the American Library Association Washington Office and the Library of Congress (RSC/Minutes/483-499). 

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. 

RSC Chair Renate Behrens is looking forward to welcoming online observers to the Public Session Wednesday 22 January 2025 at 7pm UTC (There is a handy time converter here).

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

In answer to the demand at the Outreach Day in November, RSC Chair Renate Behrens is please to announce that Michaela Edelmann and Mathias Manecke from the DNB (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek) have accepted an invitation to demonstrate the RDA Dach Manual at our next Public Session on Wednesday 22 January 2025 at 7pm UTC (There is a handy time

The RSC is pleased to announce the publication of its first set of Template RDA Teaching Slides (download here).

At its meeting in Washington last week, the RSC set the dates for its meetings in 2025. They will all take place asynchronously via Basecamp with some synchronous Zoom meetings, including the following Public Sessions, to which anyone can register as an observer:

The RSC would like to thank everyone who attended its Public Session on Tuesday (12 November) and its Outreach Day yesterday (Wednesday 13 November).

The recording of the Outreach Day presentations is now available, with thanks to the Library of Congress: