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 (https://alair.ala.org/items/23346ca4-1eea-4795-a34a-165f230fdffc).
MARC Advisory Committee (MAC)
Recordings of the MARC Advisory Committee meetings that took place on Zoom on February 18-19 are now available in the MARC Development section of the MARC website. The recordings can be directly accessed at
ORDAC
The recording for the recent RDA in Europe (and the World) webinar is now available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/0PHn3UnUnXQ, with slides and agenda available at https://www.rdatoolkit.org/news/rsc/rda-europe-and-world-webinar-rda-beginners-all-welcome
Other
The library of esteemed Australian feminist ecophilosopher Val Plumwood (1939-2008) has recently been catalogued, with access available at https://www.plumwood.org/news/val-plumwood-library-digital-catalogue-now-available. The catalogue includes titles held with Plumwood’s papers at the ANU Archives, as well as the bulk of her library that remains in situ at her former home Plumwood Mountain.