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Policies

• Hebraica Cataloging RDA: a Guide to ALA-LC Romanization and Descriptive Cataloging (a.k.a, HCM2, HCM-RDA, or HCR) 2019 Revised Edition
• 2019 Revisions summary
• LC Policy Statement Regarding Headings for Names in the Hebrew Alphabet (Sept. 2011)

Standards

• Hebrew and Yiddish ALA/LC Systematic Romanization
• Judeo-Arabic ALA/LC Systematic Romanization   
• Ladino ALA/LC Systematic Romanzation

General guidance

• Yiddish Personal Names of Hebrew or Aramaic Derivation  (downloadable copy)

• Is it Judeo-German or Yiddish?
• Judeo-Persian Romanization chart (internal, LC)
• Ladino Cataloging Terminology
• LC Presentation on Jewish-Arab Relations in LCSH (June 2019)
• Jewish Law Genre/Form Headings
• Subject Heading Patterns for Canonical Jewish Liturgical Works (e.g. Haggadah, Maḥzor, and Siddur)
• Yale practice for cataloging facsimile reprints, haggadot, ketubot, etc.
• PCC Guidelines for Creating Bibliographic Records in Multiple Character Sets (last revised 2017)