News and announcements

Nov 2009 RDA is scheduled to be released at the end of November 2009. The RDA text was handed to the co-publishers on schedule on 22 Jun 2009.
25 Aug 2009 Gordon Dunsire will give a presentation at World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Milan, Italy on UNIMARC, RDA and the Semantic Web.
14 Jul 2009 Alan Danskin will give a presentation at Umbrella 2009: Making connections: the power of people, partnerships and progress, on Transition to RDA: Resource Description and Access.
1 Jul 2009 Alan Danskin, the Metadata and Bibliographic Standards Coordinator at the British Library, will be the JSC Chair from 1 Jul 2009. During July, the JSC Secretariat will move to the British Library: jscsecretary@bl.uk.
23 Jun 2009 The JSC Web site has moved to http://www.rda-jsc.org/. There are redirections in place from the old site to pages on the new site explaining the change. All links from this site (the CILIP-BL Committee on RDA) have been changed accordingly. .
29 May 2009 Gordon Dunsire gave a presentation at LIDA: Libraries in the Digital Age, 2009, Zadar, Croatia on FRBR, RDA and the Semantic Web.
13 Mar 2009 Ann Chapman gave a guest lecture to Library and Information Science students at London Metropolitan University on The tools of our trade: AACR2/RDA and MARC.
12-20 Mar 2009 The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA met in Chicago, USA. Outcomes are available
2 Mar 2009 Ann Chapman gave a guest lecture to Library and Information Science students at University College London on Resource description and access: cataloguing in the 21st century.

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