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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">A gentle reminder to NACO Hebraica catalogers that if you do not find a romanized form of the name in a resource being cataloged there is a list of required sources to look for a romanized form of a Hebrew name in LC-PCC
9.2.2.5.3:</p>
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<div class="para" id="lcps9-73"><span class="bold">H<b><i>ebrew Alphabet:</i></b></span><b><i> Follow this order of preference in choosing the heading for persons with names in the Hebrew alphabet:</i></b></div>
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<div class="listitem-num span-2 last"><b><i>1.</i></b></div>
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<div class="para" id="lcps9-76"><b><i>If the name is found prominently in a romanized form in the resource being cataloged in a language using the Hebrew alphabet, use this form.</i></b></div>
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<div class="listitem-num span-2 last"><b><i>2.</i></b></div>
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<div class="para" id="lcps9-78"><b><i>If the name is found as the heading for an article about the person in
<span class="italic">The Encyclopaedia Judaica</span> or <span class="italic">The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World</span>, use this form. If the form varies in these two sources, use the form found in
<span class="italic">The Encyclopaedia Judaica</span>.</i></b></div>
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<div class="listitem-num span-2 last"><b><i>3.</i></b></div>
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<div class="para" id="lcps9-80"><b><i>If the name is found in a romanized form in a widely-known and easily-consulted free online source, use this form, especially where a person who writes or is written about primarily in the Hebrew script provides a preferred
romanized form of the name in that source (e.g., <a class="ulink" href="http://www.facebook.com/">
Facebook<img alt="" class="externallink" height="13" width="13" style="user-select: none;" src="http://access.rdatoolkit.org/images/externallink.png"></a>,
<a class="ulink" href="http://www.linkedin.com/">Linkedin<img alt="" class="externallink" height="13" width="13" style="user-select: none;" src="http://access.rdatoolkit.org/images/externallink.png"></a>) or, failing such a source, a general source (e.g.,
<a class="ulink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page">Wikipedia<img alt="" class="externallink" height="13" width="13" style="user-select: none;" src="http://access.rdatoolkit.org/images/externallink.png"></a>).</i></b></div>
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<div class="listitem-num span-2 last"><b><i>4.</i></b></div>
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<div class="para" id="lcps9-82"><b><i>Otherwise, use the systematically romanized form of the name.</i></b></div>
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<div class="listitem-num span-2 last"><b><i>5.</i></b></div>
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<div class="para" id="lcps9-84"><b><i>However,</i></b></div>
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<div class="listitem-num span-2 last"><b><i>a)</i></b></div>
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<div class="para" id="lcps9-87"><b><i>If the authorized access point for an author who writes in a language using the Hebrew alphabet reflects the systematically romanized form and a subsequently-received resource containing the name in a Hebrew-alphabet language
shows a non-systematically romanized name (i.e., a “found romanization”), generally do not change the authorized access point. This means that only in exceptional cases will systematically romanized names be candidates for change.</i></b></div>
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<div class="listitem-num span-2 last"><b><i>b)</i></b></div>
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<div class="para" id="lcps9-89"><b><i>If the authorized access point for an author who writes in a language using the Hebrew alphabet reflects a non-systematically romanized form and a subsequently received resource containing the name in a Hebrew-alphabet
language shows a different non-systematically romanized form (i.e., a different “found romanization”), do not change the authorized access point until the different form clearly predominates.</i></b></div>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I have been told by some catalogers that they are not seeing 675 or 670 fields to indicate that these sources were consulted in the absence of a romanized from appearing in a resource being cataloged.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Thanks, Heidi</p>
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<p>Heidi G. Lerner</p>
<p>Metadata Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica</p>
<p>Metadata Dept.</p>
<p>Stanford University Libraries</p>
<p>Stanford, CA 94305-6004</p>
<p>ph: 650-725-9953</p>
<p>fax: 650-725-1120</p>
<p>e-mail: lerner@stanford.edu</p>
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