[11828] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Non-Roman Scripts in Library Catalogs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Kerchoff)
Tue Nov 18 20:27:30 1997
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 13:45:23 -0600
From: Steven Kerchoff <kerchoff@eureka.lk>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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The Sri Lanka National Library is currently exploring the
possibility of automating its card catalog using a MARC-based system. The
Library's collection includes materials in Sinhala, Tamil, and English,
three languages with three completely different scripts. Most American
library catalogs merely transliterate bibliographic data in non-Roman
scripts, but the Sri Lanka National Library will require a system which can
store and retrieve data in all three scripts.
I am seeking recommendations for MARC-based systems with the
capacity to handle non-Roman scripts. I would be particularly interested in
hearing about vendors already doing business elsewhere in Southern Asia.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
Regards,
Steve
Steven Kerchoff, ALA Library Fellow
Sri Lanka National Library Services Board
kerchoff@eureka.lk
"On leaving the Island of Andoman and sailing a few thousand miles, a little
south of west, the traveller reaches Ceylon, which is undoubtedly the finest
Island of its size in all the world." Marco Polo
