[ha-Safran]: Subject headings

[Daniel Stuhlman]

  Here are some changes of interest to Judaica cataloging from 
the  Cataloging Service Bulletin.



New subject headings of interest

Holocaust victims' families (May Subd Geog)
Holocaust survivors' families (May Subd Geog)

Cancelled 
Replacement
Abraham (Biblical patriarch) in rabbinical literature  Abraham 
(Biblical patriarch)­In rabbinical literature
Adam (Biblical figure) in rabbinicalliterature Adam 
(Biblical figure)­In rabbinical literature literature
Amos (Biblical prophet) in rabbinical literature   Amos 
(Biblical prophet)­In rabbinical literature
Architecture, 
Jewish  Jewish architecture
El 'Al Flight LY426 Crash, 1955El 
'Al Flight LY426 Crash, Bulgaria, 1955
Esau (Biblical figure) in rabbinical literature Esau 
(Biblical figure)­In rabbinical literature
Eve (Biblical figure) in rabbinical literature  Eve (Biblical 
figure)­In rabbinical literature
Ezekiel (Biblical prophet) in rabbinical literature Ezekiel 
(Biblical prophet)­In rabbinical literature
Hosea (Biblical prophet) in rabbinical literature   Hosea 
(Biblical prophet)­In rabbinical literature
Isaac (Biblical patriarch) in rabbinical literature Isaac 
(Biblical patriarch)­In rabbinical literature
Isaiah (Biblical prophet) in rabbinical literature  Isaiah 
(Biblical prophet)­In rabbinical literature
Ishmael (Biblical figure) in rabbinical literature  Ishmael 
(Biblical figure)­In rabbinical literature
Ishmael (Biblical figure) in the 
Koran  Ishmael (Biblical figure)–In the Koran
Jacob (Biblical patriarch) in the Koran Jacob 
(Biblical patriarch)–In the Koran
Jeremiah (Biblical prophet) in rabbinical literatureJeremiah 
(Biblical prophet)­In rabbinical  literature
Jews, MoldavianJews, Moldovan
Job (Biblical figure) in rabbinical literature  Job (Biblical 
figure)­In rabbinical literature
Joel (Biblical figure) in rabbinical literature Joel 
(Biblical figure)­In rabbinical literature
Jonah (Biblical prophet) in the Koran  Jonah 
(Biblical prophet)–In the Koran
Joseph (Son of Jacob) in rabbinical literature Joseph (Son of 
Jacob)­In rabbinical literature
Joseph (Son of Jacob) in the KoranJoseph (Son of 
Jacob)–In the Koran
Laban (Biblical figure) in rabbinical literature   Laban 
(Biblical figure)­In rabbinical literature
Micah (Biblical prophet) in rabbinical literatureMicah 
(Biblical prophet)­In rabbinical literature
Moses (Biblical leader) in rabbinical literature Moses 
(Biblical leader)­In rabbinical literature
Moses (Biblical leader) in the Koran  Moses (Biblical 
leader)–In the Koran
Rebekah (Biblical matriarch) in rabbinical literatureRebekah 
(Biblical matriarch)­In rabbinical  literature
Refugees, Jewish Jewish refugees
Refugees, Jewish, in literature  Jewish refugees 
in literature
Refugees, Jewish­Great Britain   Jewish 
refugees­Great Britain
Saul, King of Israel, in rabbinical literature   Saul, King 
of Israel­In rabbinical literature
Solomon, King of Israel, in rabbinical literature   Solomon, King 
of Israel­In rabbinical literature
Solomon, King of Israel, in the Koran Solomon, King 
of Israel–In the Koran
Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem) in the BibleTemple of Jerusalem 
(Jerusalem)­In the Bible



Proposed Judeo-Arabic Romanization
http://www.loc.gov/cds/PDFdownloads/csb/CSB_123.pdf
Cataloging Service Bulletin, no. 123 (Spring 2009) page 9

PERSIAN IN NON-ARABIC SCRIPTS  includes transliteration for Judeo-Persian
Cataloging Service Bulletin, no. 123 (Spring 2009) page 63




Daniel Stuhlman
ddstuhlman  at earthlink.net
Chicago, IL

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[ha-Safran]: Subject Headings

[Fred Lerner]

I recently asked, "Is there such a thing as a list of subject headings 
suitable for a small congregational library of between 1000 and 2000 volumes?"

Several members drew my attention to "Subject Headings for the Weine 
Classification Scheme for Judaica Libraries", and I have ordered a copy 
from AJL. I expect to use it as a guide to modifying the LC headings that 
are included in the cataloging recoreds I've downloaded from LC and other 
libraries.

Many thanks to my fellow Safranim for their advice.

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[ha-Safran]: Subject headings

[Fred Lerner]

Is there such a thing as a list of subject headings suitable for a small 
congregationsl library of between 1000 and 2000 volumes?

Fred Lerner
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[ha-Safran]: Subject headings

[Alan Samuel]

We are trying to catalogue our small library and wonder if you have a 
suggested list of Jewish subject headings we could use as a reference/

Alan Samuel JP
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RE: [ha-Safran]: Subject headings

[Zyroff, Ellen]

You are correct; the searcher would not know for sure why the search failed 
to locate items or located just a very few items in a collection, unless 
there is more information provided. Too great a reliance upon blind key 
word searching alone adds to this problem.

Many automated library systems provide for the loading of subject heading 
authority files, as well as authority files for standardized forms of 
personal and corporate authors' names.  There are international standards 
for the transliteration of names.  Once the authority files are loaded, the 
software takes the searcher from a query by any of the alternative 
spellings it knows about to the "preferred form" of the name.  Some of the 
more common alternative forms of subject headings and authors' names will 
already be there in the authority files and others can usually be added 
locally - these are the same as the "see" and "see also" references that 
were traditionally in use in card catalogs to establish consistency of 
usage and help for the user.

For example:
Sukkoth.
Search under: Sukkot

For example: Mosheh ben Maimon, 1135-1204.
Search under: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204

Regardless of whether computerized versions of authority files are loaded 
into your online system, and as long as a standardized sets of controlled 
vocabulary subject headings and authors' names are being relied upon in 
your cataloging, you can put a copy of the book of subject headings (which 
include the cross references) next to the computer. If local variations and 
additions of subject headings and/or names have been established in 
addition or alternatively to those used by other libraries, that local 
compilation can be make available and prominent in the library and the 
patron made aware of how it can help in searching for materials in your 
collection. If the authority file is on cards, you can make that available.

As you suggested, posting or providing a hand-out with the form of names 
and subject headings in use in your catalog for frequently searched names 
and topics makes good sense in a specialized library.

Ellen Zyroff



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[ha-Safran]: Subject headings

[Rose Myers]

Ellen Zyroff reminds me that, as a neophyte, I have a
subject heading question:

Do you post a list of the headings that you use?
Or at least a list of the tricky ones?

For example, there are many ways to spell
transliterated Hebrew words,
such as Shavuot aka Shavuoth aka Shavuos ...
and even many ways to spell author's names,
such as Shalom Aleichem aka ... Sholom Rabinowitz
aka...

How is a catalog browser to know if his or her search
failed because there are no books in the library on
this subject or because he or she spelled the subject
or name differently?


Thanks,
Rose Myers





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