RE: new Even-Shoshan romanizations

[Rabenstein, Bernie]

 We at Hebrew Union College will not go crazy changing every
Romanization (that Even shoshan comes up with) in our romanized titles.
Most patrons will tend to search by Hebrew title anyway. However access
points of 1xx,7xx,6xx,4xx,8xx containing the romanizations do urgently
need correction and need priority attention whether by libraries that
use roman titles AND access points or by those who depend on Romanized
access points only.


Bernard Rabenstein 

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Subject: new Even-Shoshan romanizations

Yesterday the LC Hebraica Team sent the Cataloging Policy and Support
Office a list of words from the 2003 edition of Even-Shoshan's
dictionary.  These are words which show different romanizations in that
edition from those in earlier editions.  In accordance with our policy
of following the latest edition available, we will now implement these
new romanizations in Hebraica Team cataloging.

The list is attached to this message as a Word document.  It is also
posted on the AJL Cataloging Committee's wiki at
http://rascat.pbwiki.com/Discrepancies, under the title "List of New
Hebrew Romanizations To  Be Implemented by LC, Jan. 2008."  This list
now precedes on the webpage the shorter one submitted earlier by Jasmin
Nof.  The first column shows the romanization of words in 1997 edition,
the second column shows the romanization in the 2003 edition, and the
third column gives the number of instances of the old romanizations
found recently in the LC database.

CPSO will make the corrections to the affected records, since in several
cases there are hundreds of instances of the old romanizations in the LC
database.  Because Hebraica cataloging staff will not be making the
changes, it's possible that a few errors may be made.  If you find an
error involving one of these words in an LC record, please notify me and
I will correct it.

At the moment, it's not possible at LC to do keyword searches in the
authority file.  Until we acquire this capability, probably in the
spring of this year, we'll correct headings with the old romanizations
on an as-encountered basis.  NACO Hebraica participants and Funnel
members, please do the same if you find such headings. 

As we continue to catalog, we will no doubt find other words in the
newer Even-Shoshan editions which need correction in our databases.
Please post a message to Heb-NACO if you find such a case, and we'll
update the LC records and the list in the wiki.

Thank you!
Joan