<html><body><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I would like to announce that Hebraica Cataloging RDA: a Guide to ALA/LC Romanization and Descriptive Cataloging is now available. This online resource supplements and updates Hebraica Cataloging (Paul Maher) that appeared in 1987. This new resource aims to serve as a published guide to the romanization and descriptive cataloging of Hebraica materials in RDA by the Library of Congress and the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC).</span></div><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><p style="margin: 0px;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px;">This resource was created by Joan Biella (formerly of LC), Benjamin Fryser (LC), and Heidi Lerner (Stanford Libraries) and is available at the AJL RAS Cataloging Committee Wiki:</p><p style="margin: 0px;"><a href="http://rascat.pbworks.com/w/page/7836007/FrontPage">http://rascat.pbworks.com/w/page/7836007/FrontPage</a></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;">This resource has been several years in the making and incorporates many comments made on the first draft. A second part containing annotated examples taken from a summer 2013 workshop-style<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: #fdfdfd;"> </span></span><span class="zmsearchresult">e-forum</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: #fdfdfd;"> </span></span><span style="background: #fdfdfd;">for Hebraica cataloguers (developed to as a platform for discussing issues in RDA cataloging particular to Hebrew and Yiddish materials) will follow in th spring or summer of 2015.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background: #fdfdfd;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background: #fdfdfd;">Thank you, Heidi Lerner</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="background: #fdfdfd;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p></div><div><span></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></span><br></div></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>