I’d like to repeat and stress Jasmin’s endorsement of a “consistent,
standard practice.” Certain questions like this one arise over and over
again in Hebraica cataloging, and can be settled only by adopting a
standard—there is one, generally used by the largest libraries. Teach the
standard.
Thank you all for your responses. Although documentation states otherwise, I
think about what Cliff says and that has merit. How I also think about it is
that the last digit of a Hebrew year generally corresponds to the last digit in
the 9 months of the Gregorian year. For example most of
I agree with Cliff and Caroline; it is also the practice of the Israeli
libraries (National Library and others), BUT for years we did it the other way:
I am afraid that if we change it now without changing the past records – it
will just create a bigger chaos. Only if there is an automatic way
Hi, Cliff,
Your thought about probability is interesting. Nevertheless, our documented
practice has been to use the earlier of the two possible dates for both the
call no. date and fixed field date. Please see the Classification and
Shelflisting Manual, G140
Dear Colleagues,
I'm working remotely so I cannot check any references at my Seminary Library
desk.
As I recall the single date "s" is to be used when the date is certain or
probable.
5783 might be any of 9 months of 2023 or any of 3 months of 2022.
When the odds are 3 to 1 of the later date, I
