[Heb-NACO] Hebrew dates in RDA records

[Biella, Joan]

Like AACR2, RDA doesn't give any advice on formulating nonroman fields or recording dates expressed in nonroman forms.  This being the case, LC is continuing to record them as we did under AACR2--that is, we don't make any attempt to record the letters-used-as-numerals kind of Hebrew date, but just "translate" those dates into Western-style numerals, in both roman and nonroman fields.  As there is no instruction telling us how to do this, I suppose it is optional for other libraries to do it differently.  So in your example we would give "773 [2012 or 2013]."

Re chronograms:  According to the LC-PCC PS for instruction 2.8.6.4, we don't spell out chronograms--we just convert them to regular dates as we did under AACR2.  So in your example we would give "773 [2012 or 2013]."

Joan

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Subject: [Heb-NACO] Hebrew dates in RDA records

Hello all,

Ready or not, RDA is coming!  We at UCLA are looking at the BIBCO webinars in preparation for doing RDA BIBCO records.  In the first webinar (I believe) there was a discussion of transcribing dates as they appear on the piece.  So, for example, if you have a roman numeral for a date on your piece you would transcribe it as such, with the option of adding the C.E. date in parenthesis:

264   $c MMXIII [2013]

What do we do with dates that only appear in Hebrew script on the piece?  Do we transcribe it as we see it in the Hebrew characters with the Romanized form in a parallel field?  We also can’t use “i.e.” anymore and must use “that is.”  For example:

264   $cתשע"ג [that is 2012 or 2013]
264  $c t. sh. ‘a. g. [that is 2012 or 2013]

I saw that there is even an RDA rule for chronograms (2.8.6.4) giving the optional addition to write it all out then give the C.E. date in square brackets.

264 $c Chronogram [that is 2012 or 2013]

Please let me know whether I’m on the right track and whether AJL/PCC/LC will be giving additional guidance for RDA Hebraica records.

Caroline

Caroline R. Miller
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