Research, Academic and Special Libraries Cataloging Committee

Welcome to the AJL RAS Cataloging Committee wiki. Here you will find information that committee members and other Hebraica catalogers find useful.  The AJL wiki is here.

Hebraica Cataloging

Documentation

• 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

• 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)
• LC Presentation on Jewish-Arab Relations in LCSH (June 2019)
• Jewish Law Genre/Form Headings
• Guidelines for Rabbinic Names Entered Under Forename (for creating access points)
• Is it Judeo-German or Yiddish?
• Yale practice for cataloging facsimile reprints, haggadot, ketubot, etc.

Resources

• Romanization FAQ (downloadable copy) 
• Foreign loan words (per HCM 2017 revision) 
  
• Changed Even-Shoshan Romanizations
• Fixed Expressions/צרופים קבועים
• Fancy Hebrew month names  

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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
• Modern Hebrew Literature - a Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon

RDA Training Resources & Documents

Miscellaneous Documents

• Paul Maher obituary (LC Gazette, Jan. 10, 2020) 
  

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Committee Documents

Charge and Membership

Meeting Agendas

• 2019 
  

• 2018
• 2017 
  
• 2016
• Archives

Meeting Minutes

• 2018 
  
• 2018 Catalog Committee meeting update
• 2017 
• 2016
• Archives

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