Dear safranim, The R&S Cataloging Committee meeting, scheduled for 4-5, Sunday June 18,was cancelled due to minimal presence in Toronto of its members. I am providing below a list of the agenda items and recommendations on how we will proceed with them in the absence of a meeting this year.
1) Ladino (Joan Biella, Heidi Lerner) - A revised draft of a proposed ALA/LC Romanization table for Ladino has been developed that is more in accordance with current scholarly standards. Copies of this table will be distributed via e-mail to Committee members for their comments, etc. If this table is approved by the Committee, a request will be made to CPSO that it be included in a CSB for distribution to the larger cataloging community 2) Kuntres, Mahberet, Maamar (Joan Biella, Heidi Lerner) - Suggestions have been that the guidelines for "Sefer" (Maher, HCM, p. 45) be expanded to include generic terms that indicate the type or form of the literature contained therein, i.e., "Kuntres, Mahberet, Maamar,etc." A proposal (to be included in any potential future editions of the Hebraica Cataloging Manual) will be drafted and distributed to committee members for their comments 3) Judeo-Arabic (Joan Biella ... [et al.]) - Deferred until the R&S Cataloging Commitee meeting, June 2004 4) Judeo-German (Joan Biella, Daniel Lovins, Heidi Lerner) - In light of various dissatisfactions with the term Judeo-German, particularly as it is used in the MARC Code List for Languages, this topic has been added to the agenda. Recommendations have been made that the current reference to Yiddish from Judeo-German be removed from the MARC code list. Various alternatives are being considered and these will be distributed via e-mail to Committee members and then hopefully distributed in a CSB If non-committee members are interested in specific topics, please contact Joan Biella and/or me directly Thanks, Heidi Lerner, Chair, R&S Cataloging Committee Heidi G. Lerner Hebraica/Judaica Cataloger Catalog Dept. Stanford Univ. Libraries Stanford, CA 94305-6004 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph: 650-725-9953 fax:650-725-1120 =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
