The RSC Chair and Secretary were very sad to hear from ORDAC Chair Michela Goodwin that Charlotte Christensen is having to step down from the RSC to focus on her health.
Jack Ennis Butler is currently Metadata and Discovery Librarian at CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) in Australia. He has worked in special and research libraries and at the National Library of Australia in a variety of roles including cataloguing and reference. He has also worked in the university sector supporting the delivery of metadata courses.
The latest release to RDA Toolkit took place on October 9 and includes changes the wording of authorized and preferred access points across all entities. There are corrections and fixes based on feedback submitted to RDA Toolkit and changes to the Guidance chapter on Aggregates.
Charlene Chou is Head of the Knowledge Access Department at New York University Libraries, where she oversees cataloguing and metadata services.
Title: Proposal to Revise Name of Corporate Body
Document Number: RSC/ReligionsWG/2025/1
Author/Constituency: Prepared by the Religions Working Group
Document Type: Proposal
Year: 2025
Status: To be discussed at the November 2025 RSC Meeting.
Title: Scope note for Corporate Body
Document Number: RSC/NARDAC/2025/4
Author/Constituency: Prepared by NARDAC (North American RDA Committee)
Document Type: Proposal
Year: 2025
Status: The proposal will be discussed in the November 2025 RSC Meeting.
Title: Inconsistency in the transcribed manifestation elements related to source of information
Document Number: RSC/NARDAC/2025/3
Author/Constituency: Prepared by NARDAC (North American RDA Committee)
Document Type: Proposal
Year: 2025
Status: The proposal will be discussed in the November 2025 RSC Meeting.
Following the usual selection process, the RDA Steering Committee (RSC) is delighted to welcome Dr Getaneh Alemu as Wider Community Engagement Officer (WCEO) Elect.
Getaneh Alemu completed his PhD from the University of Portsmouth (2014), where he developed a theory of metadata enriching and filtering using a grounded theory method. He also holds an MA in Digital Library Learning (Oslo University College, 2009), an MA in Knowledge and Information Management (Ghent University, 2005) and a BA in Library and Information Science (Addis Ababa University, 2001).
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Robert L. Maxwell as RSC Chair Elect.
