<html><body><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';">We are pleased to announce the availability of the draft version of <i>Hebraica Cataloging RDA: a Guide to ALA/LC Romanization and Descriptive Cataloging</i></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';">This resource is available on the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL), Research, Archives and Special Libraries (RAS) Cataloging Committee wiki at: </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';"><a href="http://rascat.pbworks.com/w/page/7836007/FrontPage" data-mce-href="http://rascat.pbworks.com/w/page/7836007/FrontPage">http://rascat.pbworks.com/w/page/7836007/FrontPage</a></span><br data-mce-bogus="1"></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';">Please feel free to take a look. You are invited to review and send any comments that you might have to Heidi Lerner (<a href="mailto:lerner@stanford.edu" data-mce-href="mailto:lerner@stanford.edu">lerner@stanford.edu</a>).</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';">Sincerely, </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';">Joan Biella, Senior Bibliographic Specialist (retired), Israel/Judaica Section, Library of Congress</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';">Benjamin Fryser, Senior Bibliographic Specialist, Israel/Judaica Section, Library of Congress</span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';" data-mce-style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Courier New';">Heidi G. Lerner, Metadata Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica, Stanford University Libraries</span></p></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div><span name="x"></span>Heidi G. Lerner<br>Metadata Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica<br>Metadata Development Unit<br>Stanford University Libraries<br>Stanford, CA 94305-6004<br>e-mail: lerner@stanford.edu<br>ph: 650-725-9953<br>fax: 650-725-1120<br><span name="x"></span><br></div></div></body></html>