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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">J<span style="color:black">ust in time for the holidays, the December 2021 issue of the
</span><i>IFLA <span style="color:black">Metadata Newsletter</span></i><span style="color:black"> is now available at
</span></span><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.ifla.org/wp-content/uploads/ifla_metadata_newsletter_december_2021.pdf">https://www.ifla.org/wp-content/uploads/ifla_metadata_newsletter_december_2021.pdf</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">.
Published twice a year, the <i>Newsletter</i> is a joint production of the IFLA Bibliography, Cataloguing, and Subject Analysis and Access Sections.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Featured in the December 2021 issue is the fourth and final article analyzing the
<i>National Bibliographic Register</i> (NBR) (<a href="https://www.ifla.org/g/bibliography/national-bibliographic-register/">https://www.ifla.org/g/bibliography/national-bibliographic-register/</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt">)<span style="color:black">,
the collected profiles of national bibliographies compiled by the Bibliography Section.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">There are reports on numerous meetings including those of the American Library Association Core Subject Analysis Committee in July, the RDA Steering Committee in July, the European Research Infrastructure
Consortium’s Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities Bibliographical Data Working Group in September, the Russian State Library’s “Library Science in the XXI Century” conference in October, and the National Library of Latvia’s “Interoperability
of Data of Cultural Heritage Institutions in the Digital Space” conference in October.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The issue is also packed with news about the ISBD, the IFLA Library Reference Model, RDA, and the tenth anniversary of the Dewey Decimal Classification in Sweden; introductions of new members of
the sections; and updates from Library and Archives Canada, China, Egypt, Finland, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, and the United States Library of Congress.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Please read the December 2021 issue of the
</span><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">IFLA <span style="color:black">Metadata Newsletter</span></span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> at
</span><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D"><a href="https://www.ifla.org/wp-content/uploads/ifla_metadata_newsletter_december_2021.pdf">https://www.ifla.org/wp-content/uploads/ifla_metadata_newsletter_december_2021.pdf</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Enjoy your holidays. Please excuse any duplication of this message.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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