Read the IFLA Standards Newsletter, volume 3, issue 1, July 2025 for all the news on standards developments.

This issue features:

  • an interview with Maja Žumer, Committee on Standards expert advisor
  • the feature article: Future-Ready Cataloguers: Embracing Entity-Based Cataloguing with RDA/RDF at the National Library of Greece by Sofia Zapounidou, Michalis Gerolimos, Eftychia Koufakou
  • two perspectives on the 2025 version of the IFLA Professional Statement on Universal Bibliographic Control, by Pat Riva and by Rehab Ouf
  • an article on the IFLA Namespaces: Standards in the Open: Making IFLA Standards Work on the Web, by Joseph Hafner, chair of the METATEC Technical Review Group
  • reports on the Standards and Metadata Mid-Year Meeting and Symposium Metadata Standards Matter: Building a Sustainable Future for Information, held 17-20 March 2025 in Athens, by Ana Stevanović, by Renate Behrens, and by Pat Riva
  • standards news from the RDA Steering Committee, and the UNIMARC Review Group
  • a summary of the recently published IFLA Guidelines for Making Libraries Accessible for People with Disabilities, from the IFLA Equitable and Accessible Library Services Section
  • a listing of WLIC 2025 sessions relating to standards
  • as well as messages from Victoria Owen, Chair of the Advisory Committee on Standards, and from the Newsletter editorial committee

Consult the archive of previous newsletters.