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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">This important announcement should be read and discussed by our community.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Best, Heidi</p>
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<p>Heidi G. Lerner</p>
<p>Metadata Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica</p>
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<p>Stanford University Libraries</p>
<p>Stanford, CA 94305-6004</p>
<p>ph: 650-725-9953</p>
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<p>e-mail: lerner@stanford.edu</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Prema Desai <padesai@stanford.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 14, 2017 8:09 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Joanna K. Dyla; Robert J Rohrbacher; Margaret W. Hughes; Soobum Kim; Greta de Groat; Galina Lipkind; Kay Teel; Hilary K Thorsen; Leszek Czubik; Jane Z Yang; Heidi G Lerner; Behzad Allahyar; Asuman Tezcan<br>
<b>Subject:</b> FW: CC:AAM Statement in Support of the Internationalization of BIBFRAME</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">The ALA/ALCTS Committee on Cataloging: Asian and African Materials (CC:AAM) has voted to approve a Statement in Support of the Internationalization of BIBFRAME, containing recommendations on character encoding,
the representation of original script and romanization, normalization, and language tags:<br>
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<a href="http://connect.ala.org/node/271553" id="LPlnk927525" previewremoved="true">http://connect.ala.org/node/271553</a></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Chair, CC:AAM 2017-2018<br>
<a href="http://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/camms/cmtes/ats-ccscataa" id="LPlnk405122" previewremoved="true">http://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/camms/cmtes/ats-ccscataa</a></p>
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Considers all aspects of challenges in the bibliographic organization of materials issued in or dealing with Africa and Asia, with the exception of Asiatic Russia.</div>
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