News and announcements 2009

24 Nov 2009 Gordon Dunsire gave a presentation to staff of the National and University Library, Zagreb, Croatia on RDA: an introduction (and a middle and an end).
5 Nov 2009 Gordon Dunsire gave a presentation at the Library Association of Ireland Cataloguing and Indexing Group Annual Seminar, Dublin, Ireland on RDA: an introduction (and a middle and an end).
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.
30 Sep 2009 Gordon Dunsire gave a presentation at Summer School in the Study of Old Books, 28 Sep 2009-2 Oct 2009, Zadar, Croatia on RDA (resource description and access) and its application to rare books, manuscripts, and their digital surrogates.
25 Aug 2009 Gordon Dunsire gave a presentation at World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly, Milan, Italy on UNIMARC, RDA and the Semantic Web.
10 Aug 2009 Alan Poulter has been appointed to the role of CILIP Representative on JSC. He takes over from Hugh Taylor who has represented CILIP for the last 5 years. Further information is available in a press release.
5 Aug 2009 The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA has released information about Issues deferred until after the first release of RDA.
22 Jul 2009 Gordon Dunsire gave a presentation on FRBR, RDA and other acronyms: is this the end of cataloguing as we know it? to staff of Cambridge University Library.
20 Jul 2009 Gordon Dunsire gave a presentation on RDA vocabularies and concepts to staff of the National Library of Scotland.
14 Jul 2009 Alan Danskin gave 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, is 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 and Minutes of March 2009 meeting 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.