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ALA‑LC

Library of Congress and American Library Association system for romanizing non‑Latin scripts

1 published guide

ALA-LC Romanization Tables: A Practical Introduction

A book title written in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Hindi, or another non-Latin script may need a Roman-letter form before it can be searched, sorted, cited, shelved, or exchanged consistently across library systems. That is the problem the ALA-LC Romanization Tables are designed to solve. The tables provide standardized rules for converting text from […]

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