new Even-Shoshan romanizations

[Joan C Biella]

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

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