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Date: 07 Jul 1993 08:56:04 -0700
From: Ellen Faed <SRG3DBN@dbv.grace.cri.nz>
Subject: RE: Moldavian cataloguing problem

> I have a few problems with a family of Moldavian serials - the biology and
> chemistry subseries of the Bulletin of the Moldavian Academy of Sciences.
> Up to 1989 no.6 the Moldavian title appeared in Cyrillic script, which LC
> cataloguers duely romanized using a conversion table for Russian (LCC
> 92-645371).  The result didn't really correspond to the way Moldavians
> would have spelt some of the words in their Roman alphabet, but not many
> librarians would have noticed.
>
> The serial underwent a couple of title changes in 1990.  1990 no.1
> appeared with the Moldavian title in Roman script:
>
>   Buletinul Academiei de Stiinte ...
>
> But it is transcribed in the LC serials record (LCC 92-645372) as:
>
>   Buletinul Akademiei de Stiinte ...
>
> Most of the peculiar spellings resulting from the style of romanization
> used for the former title disappeared, but LC persisted with the k in
> Academiei.  The same occurred with the next title change at 1990 no.5 -
> Academiei on the item but Akademiei in the title and heading for the
> academy in LCC 92-645341.  According to my only reference source on
> Moldavian/Romanian (the Manual of European languages for librarians),
> the Roman alphabets of these languages do not have a K!
>
> Another problem is that these serials actually have parallel titles in
> Moldavian and Russian, with the former appearing first on the title
> pages.  However, each has been catalogued with the Russian title as title
> proper, and a note "Title in Moldavian precedes Russian title".
>
> Is there a logical reason for the way these serials have been catalogued,
> or am I missing something?
>
> And why on earth could the heading for the academy have been switched to
> Russian recently (n9261288, provl, last rev. 03-09-1993)?
>
>
> Ellen Faed                    srg3dbn@dbv.grace.cri.nz
> Library Network Services
> Industrial Research Limited
> Lower Hutt
> New Zealand

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