Cybrarians: The Arabic Portal for Librarianship and Information The scientific conference on
“Cataloging Rules in the 21st century RDA” Cairo, Egypt April 1-2, 2013 It's pleasure to announce that Cybrarians will organize a scientific conference about RDA. It will take place in Cairo, Egypt. The conference aiming at pushing the Arab library community to involve in the new history of cataloging. The conference will discuss very important issues related to RDA and challenges that face the Arab library community. Translation issues of RDA will be deeply discussed. It will also discover the changes between AACR2 and RDA on bibliographic records and authority files. The conference will discuss four main topics: 1. The theory and philosophy of RDA. 2. Translation issues, and challenges of application in Arab libraries. 3. RDA for descriptive cataloging. 4. Authorities files in RDA. Training workshops will be held within the conference period: 1. Descriptive cataloging using RDA. 2. Building authority files using RDA. 3. Serials cataloging using RDA. The Conference web site: http://www.cybrarians.org/en/rda.html Mahmoud Khalifa PhD. Information Science, Cairo University President, Cybrarians: Arabic Portal of Librarianship & Information Cataloger Librarian, Library of Congress, Cairo Office, Egypt mahmoud.khal...@cybrarians.org http://www.cybrarfians.org Cell: +2012-2489-4472 Office: +202-2792-2695
