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Wade-Giles/Pinyin Conversion Planning Meeting at ALA on June 27
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (K. Smith-Yoshimura)
Tue Jun 15 20:06:58 1999
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 15:18:12 -0600
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Wade-Giles/Pinyin Conversion Planning Discussion: June 27, 9:30 - 12:30
The Library of Congress has announced changing from Wade-Giles
to Pinyin as the standard Chinese romanization scheme for
bibliographic records sometime in the year 2000. This change will
affect Chinese language records in the bibliographic utilities as
well as those in individual library catalogs. In addition, the
changed romanization of Chinese authors, corporate bodies,
conferences, series, uniform titles, and subjects will also affect
points of access to millions of other bibliographic records for
non-Chinese materials.
Issues related to the impact of these changes on libraries' local
systems and catalogs will be discussed by a panel comprised of
technical services, systems, and East Asian librarians from ARL
libraries and representatives from the Library of Congress, OCLC, and
the Research Libraries Group at the RLG Forum on:
Sunday, June 27, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Embassy Suites (Lafitte 1)
See the agenda and panelist list at:
http://www.rlg.org/agenda.rlgforum99.html
For background, see the "Pinyin Conversion Project" on the Library of
Congress Web site at http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pinyin
All interested in this discussion are welcome!
Karen Smith-Yoshimura, RLG
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