Dear Catalogers,
Below please find the minutes from the 2005 RS Cataloging Committee Meeting
1. Hebraica Cataloging Manual
Joan Biella and Steve Bernstein reported that the electronic version of the
Hebraica Cataloging Manual is near completion and will be mounted on the
Hebraica NACO website. Catalogers should let Steve know if we want a PDF
version as well. Joan will head an editorial group to provide updates and
revisions to existing text.
2. Review of Forthcoming RDA Drafts
Heidi will monitor draft proposals to and reports from the Joint Steering
Committee for Revision of Anglo-American Cataloging Rules and will forward
relevant documents to Heb-NACO for comments by Hebraica Catalogers.
3.Judeo-Arabic Romanization Table
Joan presented a first draft of a proposed ALA/LC romanization table for
Judeo-Arabic. This table is still a work in progress. Joan will continue
to look for reliable references sources and also seek input from scholars
in the field.
4.Date of Publication in Hebrew Script
Daniel suggested that catalogers provide the Hebrew calendar date in the
parallel 260 field in Hebrew characters. We suggested that catalogers
propose several options including the transcription of chronograms, Hebrew
only dates, etc. The Committee will examine the various options. LC will
continue to follow its practice of transcribing Hebrew characters into numbers.
5.Use of Judeo-German in MARC Code Lists for Languages, LCSH
a) Daniel will provide guidelines (to be posted on HebNACO and elsewhere)
to assist catalogers in making the distinction between texts in Yiddish and
those in German in Hebrew script.
b) Daniel will submit a proposal to MARBI to amend the see reference from
Judeo-German to Yiddish in the MARC21 Language Code List to include an
explanatory note.
c) Daniel will submit a SACO proposal to revise the subject authority
record for Yiddish to include a scope note to advise of the distinction
between Yiddish and German in Hebraic script, and 670's to justify
retention of the see reference from Judeo-German, which appears to be a
synonym of Yiddish in some contexts.
6. Ladino Romanization Table
Heidi announced that both LC and ALA have approved the proposed
romanization table for Ladino. The official version will be mounted on the
Hebraica Funnel website and at LC.
6. Non-Hebrew/Aramaic Place-names in Hebrew Contexts (Leykvoud, Bilgoraya)
Joan will compile a list of principles for the romanization of place names
and announced that next year Aaron Taub will speak about this at AJLConvention.
7. Use of Niborskis Verterbukh fun loshn-koydesh-shtamkike verter in
Yiddish as a Guide for the Romanization of Yiddish words of Hebrew Origin
not found in Weinreich
This was accepted by the AJL Cataloging Committee
8. Treating introductory title words Kuntres, Maamar, etc., as we currently
do Sefer
A formal announcement will be made that expands the list of introductory
words which may be stripped off when identifying or assigning a uniform
title. Currently this is done only with Sefer
9. Piyutim
There is interest in following-up on last year's discussion, led by Peter
Kearney (LC), of the lack of consistency in treating some piyutim
(liturgical poetry) collections as uniform titles and others as form
subject headings.
Thank you,
Heidi Lerner, Chair, AJL RS Cataloging Committee
cc: Shulie Berger
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
