ALA-LC(American Library Association–Library of Congress) is a set of standards forromanization,the representation of text in otherwriting systemsusing theLatin script.
Applications
editThe system is used to represent bibliographic information by North American libraries and the British Library (for acquisitions since 1975)[1] and in publications throughout the English-speaking world.
TheAnglo-American Cataloguing Rulesrequire catalogers to romanizeaccess pointsfrom their non-Roman originals.[2]However, as theMARC standardshave been expanded to allow records containingUnicodecharacters,[3][4] many cataloguers now include bibliographic data in both Roman and original scripts. The emergingResource Description and Accesscontinues many of AACR's recommendations but refers to the process as "transliteration"rather than" Romanization. "[5]
Scripts
editThe ALA-LC Romanization includes over 70 romanization tables.[6]Here are some examples of tables:
- ACherokeeRomanization table was created by the LC and ALA in 2012 and subsequently approved by the Cherokee Tri-Council meeting inCherokee, North Carolina.It was the first ALA-LC Romanization table for a Native American syllabary.[7]
- TheChineseRomanization table used theWade–Gilestransliteration system until 1997, when the Library of Congress (LC) announced a decision to switch to thePinyinsystem.[8]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^"Searching for Cyrillic items in the catalogues of the British Library: guidelines and transliteration tables"
- ^Agenbroad, James E. (5 June 2006). "Romanization Is Not Enough".Cataloging & Classification Quarterly.42(2): 21–34.doi:10.1300/J104v42n02_03.S2CID218589002.
- ^McCallum, S.H. (2002). "MARC: keystone for library automation".IEEE Annals of the History of Computing.24(2): 34–49.doi:10.1109/MAHC.2002.1010068.
- ^Aliprand, Joan M. (22 January 2013)."The Structure and Content of MARC 21 Records in the Unicode Environment".Information Technology and Libraries.24(4): 170.doi:10.6017/ital.v24i4.3381.
- ^Seikel, Michele (9 October 2009). "No More Romanizing: The Attempt to Be Less Anglocentric in RDA".Cataloging & Classification Quarterly.47(8): 741–748.doi:10.1080/01639370903203192.S2CID60695345.
- ^"ALA-LC Romanization Tables".Cataloging and Acquisitions.Library of Congress.Retrieved2 June2014.
- ^"Cherokee Romanization Table".Cataloging and Acquisitions.Library of Congress. 2012.Retrieved2 June2014.
- ^Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) Pinyin Liaison Group (March 2000)."Final Report on Pinyin Conversion".Chinese Librarianship: An International Electronic Journal.9.ISSN1089-4667.Retrieved2 June2014.