Comments on: How not to train someone is Slavic or Cyrillic cataloging

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:59:23 +0000

Hey you’re right, I followed your plan to a ‘T’ and it works! Or, rather, it doesn’t work!

By: Kalyna

Kalyna — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:20:16 +0000

I feel sorry for the poor soul who has to do Slavic cataloging without any background knowledge of Slavic languages. Like Jared implies, labeling one book as one language, but it being another language can make a lot of people MAD (I’m Slavic, so I know)

btw- found this blog on the new GSLIS community forums (https://courses.lis.illinois.edu/course/view.php?id=682)

By: jenny

jenny — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:28:53 +0000

also, mix in some titles from various time periods so that romanization is totally different. and include some minor azeri serials, which all have issns, but they arent actually real issns. just made up.

By: Jared Camins

Jared Camins — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:17:15 +0000

Going along with number 2, do NOT imply (or worse, tell the cataloger outright) that material in Macedonian is actually in Bulgarian, or vice versa. Or that material in pre-Reform Russian is actually in Ukrainian. Or otherwise misrepresent what language the material is written in in any way. I’ve found assuming that material was in a specific language to be a sure path to frustration and wasted time.

Just in case anyone wanted another way to make the learning process painful.
– Jared