The Joint Workshop with NARDAC and PCC SCT RDA Training Task Group: Unlocking the Power of RDA is a preconference event for ALA's Annual Conference & Exhibition held in Chicago, Illinois. The event will held Friday, June 23 from 8:00 am-4:00 pm.
A new release of RDA Toolkit was ready on March 24, 2023, but due to some technical issues, its posting was delayed until March 27th. The release was a small one compared to past releases. Minor changes to English language RDA were made for the purpose of clarity and consistency.
CORE will present a four-part webinar series “The New and Official RDA Toolkit: A Practical Approach” this month. Originally presented as an in-person preconference for the 2022 Core Forum, this webinar is geared toward catalogers, metadata librarians, and anyone interested in Resource Description and Access (RDA). Core members and non-members are welcome to attend.
The North American RDA Committee (NARDAC) Update Forum is an 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 “Submit Feedback” link in the official RDA Toolkit enables users to provide information about typos, errors, and broken links, as well as suggested changes to the text. Some of this feedback has resulted in updates to RDA. But for more significant changes to RDA, cataloging communities have another venue to suggest modifications: the RDA change proposal process.
A new release of RDA Toolkit was posted on December 16, 2022.
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.
The North American RDA Committee (NARDAC) will host the regional representatives from Europe (EURIG) and Oceania (ORDAC), the members of the RDA Steering Committee (RSC), and PCC RDA Testing Task Group as speakers at the 2022 NARDAC Fall Update Forum.
ALA Publishing, acting on the behalf of the Copyright Holders of RDA: Resource Description and Access, has signed an agreement with Federação Brasileira de Associações de Bibliotecários (FEBAB) in which the São Paulo-based organization will be responsible for the translation of the Portuguese-language version of the cataloguing, RDA: Resource Descriptio
Now ready for listening and viewing on our YouTube channel, the latest RDA Toolkit demo is an English-language refresher on the features and functions of the official RDA Toolkit.
