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
Cataloguers’ Catch-up – July 2025
In further cool cataloguing news, ALIA ACORD are pleased to invite ACORD members to our first Cataloguers’ Catch-up – Monday 14th July at 2-3pm AEST on Zoom. Sign up via the ALIA Events page here. This will be a casual, non-recorded, drop-in session for members to...
ACORD Meeting Snapshot – June 2025
Rare Books Cataloguing Collaboration and Trove Mapping Concerns Representatives from the ALIA Rare Books and Special Collections Cataloguing Interest Group joined the meeting to discuss the groups’ purpose and collaboration with ACORD. Concerns were raised about...
Cataloguing Code of Ethics
The Cataloging Ethics Steering Committee (CESC), with members from the US, the UK, and Canada, have been tasked with compiling a Code of Ethics for Cataloguers, for the benefit of all staff creating, sharing, enriching, and maintaining metadata. The final version of...