Joseph Galron
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:17:37 -0700
I think that each language has its own problems that other languages do not have - thinking about Ketiv male and Ketiv haser in Hebrew, different Yiddish transcriptions (YIVO vs. "Soviet Yiddish, Yiddish vs. Idish, Unzer vs. Undzer, etc.); use of Hebrew dates in Hebrew fields without the need to transcribe them to numerals, (this is something that can be adopted also in Arabic and other Asian languages that have their own symbols for numbers) etc. etc. ve-khule. Yossi On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Miller, Caroline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This was discussed at the Program for Cooperative Cataloging's > BIBCO/CONSER Operation Committee in early May 2008. Peter Fletcher of > UCLA has created an informal list of existing LC and PCC-related > documents that contain information on non-roman scripts. There is some > conflicting information about non-roman scripts even among LC-generated > documents. The PCC Steering Committee will need to approve a joint > CONSER/BIBCO task group to work under the auspices of the Standing > Committee on Standards on this issue. There will need to be some > internal work done at LC to harmonize documentation as well. > > AJL should definitely put forward some recommendations but a lot is > dependent on how LC moves forward on this. > > Caroline > > Caroline R. Miller > Head of Monographic Cataloging > and Authority/Database Maintenance Sections > UCLA Library Cataloging & Metadata Center > BOX 957230 > 11020 Kinross Ave. > Los Angeles, CA 90095-7230 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone: (310) 825-4446 > Fax: (310) 794-9357 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nancy Sack > Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:21 PM > To: heb-naco@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu > Subject: Re: AJL RAS CatCom agenda items > > I imagine the topic could generate considerable discussion. Remember the > > presentation Yossi made at the convention last year? I don't know if any > > progress has been made since then on devising standards or principles or > > guidelines or whatever. I know there's a lot better consistency among > catalogers in the CJK community than in ours, but they don't have the > bidirectionality problem. Chinese does have the complication of > simplified and traditional characters, which is somewhat akin to our > ketiv male/ketiv haser dilemma. > --Nancy > > Jasmin Nof wrote: > > Yes! I added it to the draft agenda > > (http://rascat.pbwiki.com/Agenda-June-2008). Do you have an idea how > > long you'd like us to devote to the topic? > > > > Nancy Sack wrote: > >> Perhaps we could discuss and (maybe even come to a consensus about) > >> the preferred form of heading for Hebrew script references in > >> authority records? > >> > >> --Nancy > > -- Joseph (Yossi) Galron-Goldschlaeger Head, Hebraica & Jewish Studies Library The Ohio State University Libraries 6001 Ackerman Library, 610 Ackerman Road Columbus, Ohio 43202-4500 USA E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel.: (614) 292-3362, Fax: (614)292-1918 URL: http://library.osu.edu/sites/jdc/jdc.php Lexicon of Modern Hebrew Literature: http://hebrewlit.notlong.com