About ACORD

The ALIA Community on Resource Description (ACORD) is an ALIA Special Interest Group representing the Australian cataloguing, metadata and resource description community.

Membership of the ACORD Special Interest Group is open to all. You can join the ACORD 365 Group here.

News

ACORD Meeting Snapshot – April 2026

ACORD Meeting Snapshot – April 2026

1. Committee Membership Another round of EOIs for ACORD membership will be posted in the coming weeks. This round will seek to target representation from across the library sector, including interested parties from special and public libraries to ensure a diverse...

News Digest – April 2026

News Digest – April 2026

Trove The Trove Metadata Manager: If you find any data issues or something in the system that is not quite working as you would expect, Trove recommends checking the Trove Partners Cataloguing known issues register to see if the Trove team is already working on it....

News Digest – March 2026

News Digest – March 2026

Australian Subject Analysis Project The Australian Subject Analysis Project (ASAP) are hosting a survey on the use of subject headings and controlled vocabularies in Australian library catalogues, to inform the future direction of the project. All librarians are...

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