About ACORD
The ALIA Community on Resource Description (ACORD) is an ALIA Special Interest Group representing the Australian cataloguing, metadata and resource description community.
News
News Digest – February 2026
Rare Books Cataloguing The Bibliographic Standards Committee of RBMS has recently published a new document, “Recommendations for the Creation of Harmful Metadata and/or Harmful Language Statements.” It is publicly available within the ALA Institutional Repository...
ACORD Meeting Snapshot – January 2026
1. Committee Membership ACORD welcomed Michela Goodwin and Izabela Hoang as new Committee members. John Timoney’s ACORD term came to an end with him attending his final ACORD meeting. ACORD would like to thank John for his contributions to the Committee over the past...
News Digest – January 2026
MARC Advisory Committee (MAC) Want a say in the latest developments to the MARC standard we all know and, er, love? In a new initiative, ACORD and NLA are coordinating Australian practitioner feedback on the latest MARC Advisory Committee (MAC) proposals and...