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

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

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 

RDA Resources & Documents

Committee Documents

Charge and Membership

Meeting Agendas

• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• Archives

Meeting Minutes

Links to External Web Pages