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.

Hebraica Cataloging

Documentation

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

• Judeo-Arabic ALA/LC Systematic Romanization
• Judeo-Persian Proposed ALA/LC Systematic Romanization
• Yiddish Personal Names of Hebrew or Aramaic Derivation  (downloadable copy)
• LC Policy Statement Regarding Headings for Names in the Hebrew Alphabet (Sept. 2011)
• Jewish Law Genre/Form Headings
• Guidelines for Rabbinic Names Entered Under Forename (for creating access points)
• Is it Judeo-German or Yiddish?

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  

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External Resources

• Hebraica Cataloging FAQ (compiled by R. Simon from Heb-NACO correspondence)
• Princeton Hebraica Cataloging Tools
• Yale Hebraica Cataloging Tools
• Rashe Tevot (alphabetic browsing; facsimile of 1926 A.Y. Shtern ed.)
• Dictionary of Hebrew Abbreviations (search box; includes contemporary acronyms)
• Jewish Encyclopedia (1906, full text)
• Ma'agar Sifrut ha-Ḳodesh
• Bibliography of the Hebrew Book 1470-1960

RDA Training Resources & Documents

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Committee Documents

Charge and Membership

Meeting Agendas

• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• Archives

Meeting Minutes

• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• Archives

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