Hebrew Cataloging  FAQ

The following items are based on correspondence in Heb-NACO. The responses were written by members of the Hebraica Cataloging Team of the Library of Congress, mainly by Joan Biella. I did some minor copy editing, but the authors have not yet been able to check and approve the items. Once this is done, I"ll make clear which items were approved.

Rachel Simon
Princeton University

Name Authorities
Added Names because of Sickness
Admor Shelita
Arvit (xxx)
Author of ...
Author Described by a Phrase
Author's Name not in the Work's Language
Author Preference
Canadian Headings
Changes of Name
Choice Between Double NARs
Choice of Info
Choice of Name
Citing the Encyclopedia Judaica
Compound Surname
          Ben-
          Ish Horovits
          Kats  in Compound Names
          Single vs. Compound Surnames
Concentration Camps
Form of name - Yiddish form not on piece
Geographic Names
Guidelines for the 670 Field
Hakohen or ha-Kohen?
Heading  Identical with Reference
Hebrew Person
Imprecise Dates
Initialized Name
"in rom."
Le-mishpahat xxx
Liturgical Uniform Titles
Ma'amadot
Mahzorim
"Making Up" a Name
Multiple Abbreviated Honorifics
Multiple  $wnne
Ne'ilah
Nicknames
Official Language
Part with a Title of Its Own
Prominence
Part Title as Part of Uniform Title
Pseudonym
Qualifying Names
Qualifying X-References
Rabbinic Names Entered Under Forename
Reprints with Collective t.p.
Romanizing "Alef"
Sacred Scriptures
s[h]in as an Initial for an Unknown Name
Siddur (xxx)
Subordinate Corporate Body
Synagogengemeinde
Uniform Title vs. Variant Form of  Title (Ma'amar, Kuntres, Sefer, etc.)
Uniform Title for Midrash not in EJ
Unique/non-unique
Yishma'el
 

Descriptive Cataloging
Adapted Work & Translations
Additions to 245 Field
Capitalization
Collective Title
Dates for Serial Citation
--- H in Date
--- of Jewish Years
--- of Release or Transmittal
--- of Uniform Titles
Edition Statements
Final  "h"  in Ladino
Furtive patahand Romanizing "mappik"
Ha- / He-
Haggadah
hehedir/hehdir
Hyphanated Place Names
Initialisms and Acronyms vs. Numbers
la-eleh or le-eleh?
"levadi" or "le-vadi"
Miagkii znak
Place Names in the 260 Field
Prominence
Prefix "ha-"
Reprints
Romanization Issues
       Abbreviated Names
       Abbreviated Titles
       Alef
       Alef-Vav in non-Hebrew Names
       Arabs
       Geographic Names of Romance Derivation
       Months and Dating
       Questions
       Slavic Names
       Tetragrammaton
       Titles Based on Phrases
       Yod
Script in Language Note
"shele-yad"  or "she-leyad"
Shortened Date
Text vs. Commentary
Translations and 041 Field
Yiddish Romanization

Subject Cataloging & Classification
Aggadic Commentaries
Apocryphal Books
Classification of Biblical Commentaries
--Commentaries
--Controversial  literature
Cuttering with the Letter "A"
Ethnic Groups
Halacha and Israeli law
Israel or Palestine?
Israeli Authors writing in Spanish
Jewish Rites
Kabbalat Shabbat & Arvit (Sabbath)
Karaite Prayer-Book for Purim
Karaites
LCC: Immigration & Emigration
Liturgical Headings and Subdivisions
Liturgy and Rite
Mahazor
Palestinian Jews?
Passover
Religious Calendars
Responsa
Sermons
Shabta'ut
Siddurim as Artifacts
Subject Subdivisions
      History
      Introductions
Topical Cutters
Uniform Title vs. Subject Heading
Uncommon Jewish Languages Subdivided by  "--Texts"
Zaddikim
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