Welcome to the AJL RAS Cataloging Committee Wiki

Here you will find information that committee members and other Hebraica catalogers find useful.  The main wiki for the Association of Jewish Libraries is found here.

Cataloging

1. Committee Charge and Membership

2. Documentation

• Hebraica Cataloging RDA: a Guide to ALA-LC Romanization and Descriptive Cataloging (a.k.a, HCM2) 

• ALA/LC Systematic Romanization for Judeo-Arabic
• Proposed ALA/LC Systematic Romanization for Judeo-Persian
• Yiddish Personal Names of Hebrew or Aramaic Derivation  (downloadable copy)

• LC Policy Statement Regarding Headings for Names in the Hebrew Alphabet (Sept. 2011)
• Genre/Form Headings for Jewish Law

3. Resources

• Changed Even-Shoshan Romanizations
• Fixed Expressions/צרופים קבועים
• Fancy Hebrew month names  
• Bib Record Errors  -- Note:  Bib record error notification via the wiki has been suspended. 
• Bib Record Errors, 2007

          4. RDA Resources & Documents

Committee Meeting Agendas

• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009
• 2008
• 2007 
• 2006

Committee Meeting Minutes

• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012 
• 2011
• 2010
• 2009 
• 2008
• 2007

• 2006

Links to External Web Pages

• AJL Home
• AJL Documents (D. Lovins' Yale page)
• NACO Hebraica Funnel (H. Lerner's Stanford page)
• Hebraica Cataloging FAQ (R. Simon's Princeton page)
• Hebraica Cataloging Documentation (Princeton Library)