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Research & Innovation Strategies

Languages

CJK cataloging (9/2018) 

CJK materials procedures (needs updating to Folio)

Chinese cataloging

Libraries with good cataloging for Chinese records:

Library

OCLC Symbol

Columbia

 ZCU

Cornell

 COO

Harvard

 HUL

Indiana

 IUL

Princeton

 PUL

Stanford

 STF

University of California, Berkeley

 CUY

University of California, San Diego

 CUS

University of Chicago

 CGU

University of Hawaii

 HUH

University of Pittsburgh

 PIT

University of Washington

 WAU

Yale

 YUS

Initial articles in various languages to be skipped or omitted in certain fields

(See Appendix F in MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data)

  • 245, set the second indicator to skip these initial articles.
  • 740, set the first indicator to skip these initial articles.
  • Drop the articles in the following fields: 130, 240, 246, 630, 730, 830
  • Drop the articles in subfield "t" of the following fields: 600, 610, 611, 700, 710, 711, 800, 810, 811

"+" before an indefinite articles indicates the same form is also used for the numeral "one" so you need to distinguish the meaning.

"*" if followed by que in Spanish and Portuguese, these are not articles.

Article

Language

* a

 English, Hebrew, Hungarian, Portuguese, Yiddish

a'

 Gaelic, Scottish

al

 Romanian

al-

 Arabic

am

 Gaelic, Scottish

an

 English, Gaelic, Scottish, Yiddish

an t-

 Gaelic, Scottish

ane

 Scots

ang

 Tagalog

ang mga

 Tagalog

* as

 Galacian, Portuguese

az

 Hungarian

+ bat

 Basque

+ bir

 Turkish

d’

 English

da

 Shetland English

*das

 German, Yiddish

de

 Danish, Dutch, English, Frisian, Norwegian, Swedish

dei

 Norwegian

dem

 German

den

 Danish, German, Norwegian, Swedish

der

 German, Yiddish

des

 German, Walloon

det

 Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

di

 Yiddish

die

 Afrikaans, German, Yiddish

dos

 Yiddish

e

 Norwegian

‘e

 Frisian

+ een, eene

 Dutch

+ egy

 Hungarian

+ ei

 Norwegian

+ ein

 German, Norwegian, Walloon

+ eine

 German,

einem, einen

 German

einer, eines

 German

+ eit

 Norwegian

* el

 Catalan, Spanish

el-

 Arabic

els

 Catalan

+ en

 Catalan, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish

enne

 Walloon

+ et

 Danish, Norwegian

+ ett

 Swedish

+ eyn, eyne

 Yiddish

gl', gli

 Italian

ha-

 Hebrew

hai

 Classical Greek, Modern Greek

he

 Hawaiian

 Classical Greek, Modern Greek

he-

 Hebrew

+ heis

 Modern Greek

+ hen, hena

 Modern Greek

+ henas

 Modern Greek

het

 Dutch

hin, hina, hinar, hinir

 Icelandic

hinn, hinna, hinnar, hinni

 Icelandic

hins, hinu, hinum

 Icelandic

hio (add diacritic)

 Icelandic

ho

 Classical Greek, Modern Greek

ho-

 Hebrew

hoi

 Classical Greek, Modern Greek

i

 Italian

ih’

 Provençal

il

 Italian, Old Provençal, Occitan

il-

 Maltese

in

 Frisian

it

 Frisian

ka

 Hawaiian

ke

 Hawaiian

l'

 Catalan, French, Italian, Old/Modern Provençal, Occitan, Walloon

* la

 Catalan, Esperanto, French, Italian, Old/Modern Provençal, Occitan, Spanish

* las

 Old Provençal/Occitan, Spanish

le

 French, Italian, Old Provençal, Occitan

les

 Catalan, French, Old Provençal, Occitan, Walloon

lh

 Old Provençal, Occitan

lhi

 Old Provençal, Occitan

li

 Old/Modern Provençal, Occitan, Walloon

lis

 Provençal, Occitan

lo

 Italian, Old/Modern Provençal, Occitan, Spanish

* los

 Old Provençal, Occitan, Spanish

lou

 Modern Provençal, Occitan

lu

 Modern Provençal, Occitan

mga

 Tagalog

mgá

 Tagalog

+ mia

 Modern Greek

'n

 Afrikaans, Dutch, Frisian

na

 Hawaiian, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Scottish

na h-

 Irish, Scottish Gaelic

+ njē, nji

 Albanian

ny

 Malagasy, Manx

‘o

 Neapolitan Italian

* + o

 Galician, Hawaiian, Portuguese, Romanian

* os

 Portuguese

‘r

 Icelandic

‘s

 German

't

 Dutch, Frisian

ta

 Classical Greek, Modern Greek

tais, tas, tē

 Classical Greek

t­ēn, tēs

 Classical Greek, Modern Greek

the

 English

to

 Classical Greek, Modern Greek

tō, tois

 Classical Greek

ton, tōn, tou

 Classical Greek, Modern Greek

+ um, uma

 Portuguese

umas

 Portuguese

+ un

 Catalan, French, Italian, Modern Provençal, Occitan, Romanian, Spanish

+ un'

 Italian

+ una

 Catalan, Italian, Old Provençal, Modern Provençal, Occitan, Romanian, Spanish

unas

 Spanish

+ une

 French

unei

 Romanian

unha

 Galician

+ uno

 Italian, Modern Provençal, Occitan

unos

 Spanish

+ uns

 Old Provençal, Occitan, Portuguese

unui

 Romanian

+ us

 Old Provençal

y, yn

 Manx

y, yr

 Welsh

ye

 English

Cataloging, language fluency

[Above link for RDS catalogers and their language fluencies]

Backstage language cataloging

A project was started in 2018 in which Acquisitions contracts with Backstage for cataloging items for which we don't have cataloging language proficiency in RDS. Documents linked below constitute preliminary procedures performed by RDS for this project. Acquisitions uses the Backstage contract cataloging tracking spreadsheet to track this.

 

Preparing items for Backstage

Backstage language cataloging procedures [updated procedures in progress, to be added when complete]

(Included within the procedures above are links to: scanning instructions, procedures for Backstage records received [this needs updating to FOLIO], and the Backstage contract cataloging tracking spreadsheet.)