The webinar is organized by the IFLA Asia Oceania Regional Division Committee and is targeted for cataloguers, data curators and librarians in general who are interested to improve the discovery of library collections.

The aim of the webinar is to assist libraries in the Asia and Oceania region to implement RDA as a cataloguing standard and discovery tool for their resources.

The webinar will also discuss the results of surveys conducted among libraries in the region about their experience in implementing and using RDA in 2023-2024.

Recommendations for implementing RDA in libraries from a scratch will be presented.

Moderator: Piotr Lapo, Deputy Director of the Kazakh National Women’s Teacher Training University Library, Kazakhstan, Member of the IFLA Asia Oceania Regional Division Committee (2023-2027)

Speakers:

  • Teaching RDA


Elisa Sze, Metadata Librarian at the University of Toronto, Education and Orientation Officer at the RDA Steering Committee

  • On the Results of the Survey on the Use of RDA in Libraries in the Asia and Oceania Region in 2023-2024


Haliza Jailani, Senior Deputy Director of the Resource Discovery and Management Division
Ng Hui Ling, Assistant Director for Metadata Services, National Library Board of Singapore