[Heb-NACO] link to the video recording - RAS Cataloging meeting

Dear all, Many thanks to all who attended yesterday's RAS AJL Cataloging Committee meeting. Minutes are still being edited. However, if you missed, you can now watch a video recording. Meeting Recording

[Heb-NACO] Christian biases in headings

Dear all, If you attended yesterday's RAS AJL Cataloging meeting, you heard that Marlene Schiffman is compiling a list of cases of Christian biases in headings, which will inform our discussion and hopefully will lead us to a proposal for change. In the meantime, Marlene and all of us would

[Heb-NACO] AJL RAS Cataloging Committee Summer Meeting -- link and agenda

Dear all, The AJL RAS Cataloging Committee will hold its Summer meeting on June 17, 12:30 EDT (9:30 PDT, 6:30 CET, 7:30pm Israel). Please note that this happens before the AJL annual conference. We hope to see many of you there! Below are the connection details AND the draft agenda, with

[Heb-NACO] Question about faculty/staff status

Dear all, Hope you are doing well. I wanted to figure out which of us are considered as faculty by our institutions. If you are faculty, would you please contact me off list and let me know? You can drop me a line at nf...@umd.edu Many thanks, -- *Neil M. Frau-Cortes, Ph.D. *(he, him, his)

[Heb-NACO] Wikidata workshop: there is still time to register

Dear all, Just a gentle reminder that we are meeting Wednesday! There's still time to register. Please join us next Wednesday, May 26, between 12:30-2:00 pm EST (9:30-11:00 AM PT or 7:30-9:00 pm in Israel) for the *Wikidata Beginners' Workshop.* The workshop will be led by Neil M. Frau-Cortes

[Heb-NACO] AJL RAS Cataloging Committee meeting

Dear all, The AJL RAS Cataloging Committee will hold its Summer meeting on June 17, 12:30 EDT (9:30 PDT, 6:30 CET, 7:30pm Israel). Please note that this happens before the AJL annual conference. We will be posting the agenda soon, but if you have suggestions for the agenda, please let us know .

[Heb-NACO] AJL RAS Cataloging Committee minutes available

Dear all, Last March 3, 2021 the AJL RAS Cataloging Committee held its Winter meeting, which was very well attended. Many thanks to the members of the committee and to all those who participated online. In spite of our best efforts, the recording of the meeting is unusable due to the internet

[Heb-NACO] Reminder -- RAS Cataloging Committe mid-year meeting

Dear all, This is a reminder that next week the RAS Cataloging Committee is having its mid-year meeting. This is open to all Hebraica and Judaica catalogers and people interested. The meeting will be held on March 3, 12:30pm-2pm EST. Please see the Zoom invitation below. The agenda, subject to

[Heb-NACO] New date for the RAS Cataloging Committee midyear meeting

Dear all, As you know the RAS Cataloging Committee midyear meeting was postponed due to the inclement weather. We have a new date, so please put it in your calendar. It will be March 3, 12:30-2pm EST. We will send a reminder with the agenda closer to the date. Todah rabah! On behalf of the

[Heb-NACO] RAS Cataloging Committee meeting rescheduled!

Dear all, Apologies for the extremely short notice. As it turns out, the US eastern seaboard is being slammed with a nor’easter, it’s possible/probable that some folks have lost power. In fact, I have already heard from a few people. Unfortunately, we need to reschedule this meeting. I will be

Re: [Heb-NACO] Sacred work

I think this is a great question, and probably the fruit of applying an anglocentric category to a body of literature that doesn't match. We should consider if anything we call *sifre kodesh* is actually a sacred text in the spirit of the LC category. That said, even inside of the sphere of

[Heb-NACO] RAS cataloging committee midyear meeting (rescheduled) - Agenda

Dear all, Due to unforeseen circumstances, we are going to reschedule the RAS cataloging committee midyear meeting. It will now be on February 1, 9:30am-11am EST. We will post a link closer to the date. In the meantime, here you have a draft agenda. Please feel free to contact me if you have any

[Heb-NACO] RAS Catalogers Winter Meeting - call for agenda items

Dear all, I hope you are well and that you had a great Hanukkah. This is a quick reminder that we will hold our RAS Catalogers Winter Meeting on January 11, 9:30am-11:30am EST. This is our first mid-year meeting experience, as usually we only meet at the annual AJL conference in the Summer. As

[Heb-NACO] we have two new mergers!

Dear all, I'm glad to announce that Sharon Benamou and Caroline Miller, working in tandem, have concluded their review period and now are officially independent in merging print book format on OCLC. A great pleasure working with them! If anybody has any questions regarding the Hebrew Merge

Re: [Heb-NACO] [EXT] - Re: Wikidata training

Heb-naco *On Behalf Of *Benamou, > Sharon via Heb-naco > *Sent:* Tuesday, September 15, 2020 12:59 PM > *To:* Neil Manel Frau-Cortes via Heb-naco > *Subject:* [EXT] - Re: [Heb-NACO] Wikidata training > > > > ***External Email*** > > Hi Neil, > > I am interested. W

[Heb-NACO] Wikidata training

Dear all, Following our conversation at the AJL conference, I wanted to touch base regarding an initiative. As you know UMD has just started several projects for Special Collections that use Wikidata as the authority management platform. In the last few months we have been training a small group

Re: [Heb-NACO] romanization question

I agree with Jasmin. Neil On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 4:08 PM Shinohara, Jasmin via Heb-naco < heb-naco@lists.osu.edu> wrote: > Yes, with the addition of the alif diacritic, mit’agdim. The sheva under > the gimel would be naʻ because it has a dagesh, but per HCM-RDA, it’s > ignored in ALA-LC

[Heb-NACO] Fwd: RDA Toolkit appendix B.10 (Hebrew and Yiddish abbreviations)

Dear all, See below. What do you think about Ahava's question? My impression is that we are not replacing terms on a resource by abbreviations under RDA (certainly not at Maryland). Thanks, Neil -- Forwarded message - From: Ahava Cohen Date: Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 1:59 PM

Re: [Heb-NACO] Lockdown Contingency Proposals

; > Heidi G. Lerner > > Metadata Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica > > Metadata Dept. > > Stanford University Libraries > > Stanford, CA 94305-6004 > > ph: 650-725-9953 > > fax: 650-725-1120 > > e-mail: ler...@stanford.edu > > -----

[Heb-NACO] Lockdown Contingency Proposals

Hi everybody, I hope you are well and keeping safe and isolated. One of my big projects at work has been generating tasks for teleworkers, particularly for catalogers that are print-dependent and new to remote work, and now find themselves almost idle. I have a proposal: can we find things we

Re: [Heb-NACO] Romanization survey report

Great, thanks! I do agree that the conversation goes beyond catalogers. Thanks, Neil On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 3:18 PM Heidi G Lerner wrote: > Hi Neil. > > Of course. > > We can add it to the agenda list for the meeting of the Cataloging > Committee but I think that it deserves a wider

Re: [Heb-NACO] Romanization survey report

Very interesting results. I would want to see further discussion of this at the AJL conference. Neil On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 5:35 PM Shinohara, Jasmin via Heb-naco < heb-naco@lists.osu.edu> wrote: > Dear Heb-NACO Members, > > > > Thank you for participating in the Linked Data for Production-2

Re: [Heb-NACO] for those who romanize: גיא

I would definitely go for Gai. On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 4:37 PM Shinohara, Jasmin via Heb-naco < heb-naco@lists.osu.edu> wrote: > Is the above name/word romanized Gai or Gayi. I’m seeing both in LC. The > yod (vocalized with a sheva) has no dagesh, so I’m not sure why it would be > Gayi, but I

[Heb-NACO] Hebraica Merging Group

Dear all, It was very nice to see a number of you at the LA conference. As we were talking, OCLC wants to broaden its bibliographic merging service. We convened with Nathan Putnam that a Hebraica Merging Group will be created. Whoever wants to participate in it will learn by using OCLC’s

[Heb-NACO] more on hybrid heb-eng records

Sorry to insist on the issue of the hybrid heb-eng records. This morning I am finding a bunch. Please compare 1084834299, 1091955519 and 1091823640. According to the merge rules we will not be allowed to merge the two first (by definition, the 3rd one is to be left alone). Neil -- *Neil M.

Re: [Heb-NACO] How would your Romanize the following word

I don't think Aaron's problem (or mine) is with the whole romanization system, but rather with solutions that are counter-intuitive. We have to acknowledge that it is unlikely that any non-catalogers will randomly use that spelling to search the database. Rules can be super-coherent within a

Re: [Heb-NACO] OCLC Update at AJL conference

They were planning to sunset Connexion in the near future so they said they were not actively working on it. However, now it seems they are going to keep it around, so it is worth to insist in some of our former suggestions. Two of these points: 1. If you use both Hebrew and Latin alphabets in

[Heb-NACO] RAS Cataloging question

Hi, Quick question: my second term at RAS Cataloging Committee expires on 2019. Does this mean at the end of the year, at the conference, or when? Thanks, Neil -- *Neil M. Frau-Cortes, Ph.D. *(he, him, his) Judaica, Hebraica and Metadata Cataloger University of Maryland 4109 McKeldin

Re: [Heb-NACO] בגלל

I agree with Jasmin. Neil On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 4:20 PM Shinohara, Jasmin via Heb-naco < heb-naco@lists.osu.edu> wrote: > I hear the concern, Yossi, but I’m afraid we’ve already started down the > proverbial slope. Per the FAQ > ,