If you search Quran, without the alif, you will get the heading with the alif.
Am a little puzzled by the lack of finding anything at begins with an Ayn or alif. Would that require a skip character in the title of a "1", even though we put the ayn or alif after the letter involved? On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Dana Van Meter <vanme...@ias.edu> wrote: > This may not be at all relevant here, but I have been noticing for at least > a year now that I have difficulty searching anything with an apostrophe in > LC's authority file. If I copy a heading which contains an apostrophe from > the body of a record in LC's online catalog, and then search the heading in > the authority file I get no results. But if I delete the apostrophe, and > type in a new apostrophe, I pull up the heading in the name authority file. > For some reason an apostrophe in a heading in LC's catalog isn't matching > the apostrophe in the authority record. However, I just checked Qur'an in > the name authority file and I agree it does appear to be an alif. Thank you > for pointing this out, I hope that it's not too late for it to be addressed > before the next Toolkit release on May 14th. > > Dana Van Meter > Cataloging Librarian > Historical Studies-Social Science Library > Institute for Advanced Study > Princeton, NJ 08540 > vanme...@ias.edu > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access > [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Adam L. Schiff > Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 2:36 PM > To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA > Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Spelling of Qur'an > > No they are different characters and in some fonts they do not display the > same (even in OCLC you can see that they are different characters). If you > search RDA in the RDA toolkit using the form found in the authority file > (copy and paste), you get no results. If you use an apostrophe instead, > you > get all of the places in RDA where the word occurs. > > Adam > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Adam L. Schiff > Principal Cataloger > University of Washington Libraries > Box 352900 > Seattle, WA 98195-2900 > (206) 543-8409 > (206) 685-8782 fax > asch...@u.washington.edu > http://faculty.washington.edu/~aschiff > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Gene Fieg wrote: > > > Does it display the same? And are the unicodes the same? > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Adam L. Schiff > > <asch...@u.washington.edu>wrote: > > > >> I see that the LC/NACO authority records for Koran have been changed > >> to the form Qurʼan, with an alif. This is the correct Arabic > >> transliteration of the word, but when we were doing the examples for > >> RDA we were told by the JSC to use an apostrophe rather than an alif for > >> all of our examples. > >> We were instructed to use an apostrophe presumably because the > >> apostrophe is commonly used in English language resources. So I'm > >> not sure if the change to an alif was an intentional change or not. > >> If the alif is intentional, then the RDA examples need to be changed > too. > >> > >> Adam Schiff > >> > >> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >> Adam L. Schiff > >> Principal Cataloger > >> University of Washington Libraries > >> Box 352900 > >> Seattle, WA 98195-2900 > >> (206) 543-8409 > >> (206) 685-8782 fax > >> asch...@u.washington.edu > >> http://faculty.washington.edu/~aschiff > >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Gene Fieg > > Cataloger/Serials Librarian > > Claremont School of Theology > > gf...@cst.edu > > > > Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Lincoln University do not > > represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any of the > > information or content contained in this forwarded email. The > > forwarded email is that of the original sender and does not represent > > the views of Claremont School of Theology or Claremont Lincoln > > University. It has been forwarded as a courtesy for information only. > > > -- Gene Fieg Cataloger/Serials Librarian Claremont School of Theology gf...@cst.edu Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Lincoln University do not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any of the information or content contained in this forwarded email. The forwarded email is that of the original sender and does not represent the views of Claremont School of Theology or Claremont Lincoln University. It has been forwarded as a courtesy for information only.
