[ha-Safran]: Request for news of Nathan Snyder

2008-09-25 Thread Joan C Biella
I've been asked to post the query below to HaSafran. Please respond to the list or to Mayer Gruber or Kelley Coblentz-Bautch, NOT TO ME. Thank you-- Joan Biella >From: Mayer Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Kelley Norene Coblentz-Bautch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:02:17 GMT

[ha-Safran]: Guidelines for AJL online convention proceedings

2008-07-27 Thread Joan C Biella
ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS COMMITTEE February 2008 Dear AJL Convention Speaker: Please share your June 2008 AJL Convention presentation with those unable to attend your session at convention. It will be published in the Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Convention of Ass

[ha-Safran]: re Nathan Snyder

2008-05-30 Thread Joan C Biella
Nathan Snyder, Judaica/Hebraica bibliographer at the University of Texas Libraries, has been very ill recently. Friends wishing an update on his condition, please contact Joan Biella at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll send you the information I have. Joan Biella Library of Congress Messages an

[ha-Safran]: [CDSNews] Reminder: non-Latin Data in Name

2008-05-14 Thread Joan C Biella
It is not easy for libraries outside the Library of Congress to see the 110 authority records with nonroman references referred to in the message copied below. I have a copy of the file I can send to anyone who wants to see it, but it has an ".mrc" extension. You will need a program like MARC

[ha-Safran]: Proceedings Guidelines 2007

2007-07-02 Thread Joan C Biella
ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS COMMITTEE July 2007 Dear AJL Convention Speaker: Please share your June 2007 AJL Convention presentation with those unable to attend your session or convention. It will be published in the Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Convention of Associat

[ha-Safran]: LC heading for Abraham Ibn Ezra

2007-06-07 Thread Joan C Biella
Hi Margo, and any others who are seeing dots before their eyes: This heading was established in 1943, well before the advent of AACR2 rules, the current Hebrew romanization table, or the English *Encyclopaedia Judaica*. It was derived from the name given to this author in *The Jewish Encyclope

[ha-Safran]: RLIN Users: Changes in DLC records

2007-03-30 Thread Joan C Biella
>Attention, RLIN users! > >As you may already have noticed, there has been a change in the way >Library of Congress records containing non-Roman script reside RLIN, >thus affecting the way they are displayed in the RLIN >database. Non-Roman records that have been created or updated since >Marc

[ha-Safran]: AJL 2006 Online Proceedings

2006-12-05 Thread Joan C Biella
CALLING ALL WHO GAVE PRESENTATIONS AT AJL LAST JUNE: We have received only a few of your presentations for the online Proceedings. Please send more! We are anxious to make your words and wisdom available to the whole membership, and eventually to the online world at large. Please contact me

[ha-Safran]: Hebrew script in authority records?!

2006-04-11 Thread Joan C Biella
On March 16th, the Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) of the Library of Congress issued a policy statement on possible future developments in the use of nonroman scripts at LC. Among contemplated developments is use of nonroman scripts in records in the LC/NACO Authority File. (The full d

[ha-Safran]: AJL 2005 Proceedings Guidelines

2005-07-14 Thread Joan C Biella
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY--IMPORTANT CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS YEARS REGARDING FORMAT!! ASSOCIATION OF JEWISH LIBRARIES CONVENTION PROCEEDINGS COMMITTEE Dear AJL Convention Speaker: Please share your June 2005 AJL Convention presentation with those unable to attend your sessio

[ha-Safran]: Re: B.C. vs. B.C.E.

2005-03-30 Thread Joan C Biella
In response to Chaim Seymour's statement-- The term 'A.D.' (the year of our lord) is offensive to a non-Christian-- I am a non-Christian and I'm not offended by the term. I think the choice of initials to represent historical eras is trivial compared to many other problems which compete for th

[ha-Safran]: 2004 Convention Proceedings guidelines

2004-06-28 Thread Joan C Biella
The guidelines for submitting papers from the 2004 convention to the online "Proceedings" are now on the web at http://www.jewishlibraries.org/ajlweb/conventions/convention2004/proceedings_guidelines.pdf with links from the conventions page, the 2004 convention page, and the proceedings page. Tha

[ha-Safran]: Guidelines for submitting papers to convention

2004-06-28 Thread Joan C Biella
Proceedings X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.0.6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-Spam-Score: 0 () X-Bayes-Prob: 0.5 (Score 0) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 2235012 - a15d4e61792b X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) X-Listprocessor-Versi

[ha-Safran]: Proposed Ladino romanization table

2004-06-25 Thread Joan C Biella
The following is a message from the Cataloging Policy and Support Office of the Library of Congress: PROPOSED ROMANIZATION TABLE FOR LADINO A proposed romanization table for Ladino appeared in Cataloging Service Bulletin, no. 104 (Spring 2004). Unfortunately, the draft included many

[ha-Safran]: re: Library of Congress Hebrew romanization

2004-06-25 Thread Joan C Biella
I'm sorry but I must correct the recent message to Hasafran quoted below. The Library of Congress uses the ALA/LC romanization system, which differs from that of the Encyclopedia Judaica in several details. The LC system can be seen online by clicking the "Hebrew and Yiddish" link at http://www.lo

Re: [Ha-Safran] Cataloging problem

2003-09-24 Thread Joan C Biella
The MARC tagging and capitalization style of "nickname" headings in the authority file are usually considered sufficient to distinguish them from uniform title headings. The nickname "Torah Temimah" is tagged 100, while a uniform title would be tagged 130. The second element of a nickname ("Temim

[ha-Safran]: Proceedings, AJL 2003

2003-06-28 Thread Joan C Biella
Speakers and presenters at AJL 2003: If you wish your presentation to be published on the Web in the electronic proceedings of the Toronto AJL convention, send a machine-readable copy by e-mail to Joan Biella, Chair of the Proceedings Committee, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] For a copy of the complete gui