RDA

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:

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? 

Dominique Bourassa of Yale University will conduct a French language webinar on terminology of the Official RDA Toolkit and how to "decipher" instructions to catalog a monograph. The webinar is free to all. A full description with registration information follows.