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] [mailto:[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
