[Heb-NACO] LC-PCC PS 9.2.2.5.3

[Heidi G Lerner]

Hi all,


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:


Hebrew Alphabet: Follow this order of preference in choosing the heading for persons with names in the Hebrew alphabet:
1.
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.
2.
If the name is found as the heading for an article about the person in The Encyclopaedia Judaica or The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World, use this form. If the form varies in these two sources, use the form found in The Encyclopaedia Judaica.
3.
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., Facebook[http://access.rdatoolkit.org/images/externallink.png]<http://www.facebook.com/>, Linkedin[http://access.rdatoolkit.org/images/externallink.png]<http://www.linkedin.com/>) or, failing such a source, a general source (e.g., Wikipedia[http://access.rdatoolkit.org/images/externallink.png]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>).
4.
Otherwise, use the systematically romanized form of the name.
5.
However,
a)
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.
b)
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 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.


Thanks, Heidi

Heidi G. Lerner

Metadata Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica

Metadata Dept.

Stanford University Libraries

Stanford, CA 94305-6004

ph: 650-725-9953

fax: 650-725-1120

e-mail: lerner at stanford.edu
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