by Sara Davidsson | May 29, 2026 | News Digests
ALIA ACORD Cataloguers’ Catch-Up! Do you have a curly resource description question? Need a safe space to share your description woes? Or just want to hang out with cataloguers? Join ACORD members and your peers in a no-agenda Cataloguers’ Catch-up. Any...
by Sara Davidsson | May 5, 2026 | News Digests
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....
by Alissa McCulloch | Apr 2, 2026 | News Digests
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...
by Alissa McCulloch | Mar 6, 2026 | News Digests
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...
by Alissa McCulloch | Jan 20, 2026 | News Digests
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...
by Alissa McCulloch | Dec 22, 2025 | News Digests
Australian Subject Analysis Project (ASAP) The ASAP Working Group met on Thur 11 December to continue work on project planning and documentation. The projecty will commence with a small literature review and environmental scan, outlining the history of subject...
