I just checked the Proceedings from the most recent AJL convention and Joan's paper has not been posted. I will contact her and ask her if I may mount her paper on the funnel website. That will also allow access to interested parties who may not be members of the Association of Jewish Libraries but need to see the information (the AJL Conference Proceedings is only available to AJL members).
Thank you ,
Heidi Lerner
At 02:52 PM 9/30/2004 +0100, you wrote:
Dear colleagues,
I started working in RLIN21 and discovered that there are numerous changes due to Unicode, as well as bugs.
*A* Recording dates in Arabic numerals in square brackets after the Hebrew date (in the Hebrew 260 field) is one of the bugs. The brackets get allocated wrongly and flip. Even if manages to toggle and to write the sequence of Hebrew letters, square brackets and Arabic numerals correctly, everything flips around again after saving.
I have corresponded with RLG and I understand that there are numerous novelties and problems. My guess is that I am not alone and that others are experiencing the same problems.
As a remedy for the bracket-problem, RLG suggested that I use the old RTFW interface until record migration in RLIN21 has taken place. Or, alternatively, work in SAVE mode and revise records at a later stage. But of course I prefer to continue working in RLIN21, and, of course, I am not keen to revise my records at a later stage.
Has anybody found a way around this problem?
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*B* An important change in RLIN21 is the filing of diacritics. In Unicode, they now have to be written *after* the letter they relate to, and this greatly affects the filing order and the calculating of non-filing indicators!
Joan Aliprand from RLG sent me the copy of a lecture she held for AJL entitled "The use of Unicode in MARC21 records", which relates to Hebrew Unicode issues, and the filing issues especially.
My suggestion: could we publish this lecture (pending J.P.'s permission, of course) on the Heb Naco FAQ? [Not everyone on this list needs to reinvent the wheel and waste time with trial-and-error on RLIN21, as I did.]
Any comments appreciated,
Silke Schaeper
Hebraica cataloguer Bodleian Library - Department of Oriental Collections Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG Tel 01865-277 031 Fax 01865-277 029 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Heidi G. Lerner
Hebraica/Judaica Cataloger
Catalog Dept.
Stanford Univ. Libraries
Stanford, CA 94305-6004
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