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Translated Titles for Cataloging of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Material Ceases

Boehr D. Translated Titles for Cataloging of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Material Ceases. NLM Tech Bull. 2007 Mar-Apr;(355):e3.

March 01, 2007 [posted]

Starting March 1, 2007, NLM will no longer be providing cataloger-supplied translated titles (MARC 242 field) in bibliographic records for materials written in Chinese, Japanese, and/or Korean. Chinese, Japanese and Korean are the only non-Roman scripts for which NLM has historically supplied translated titles. The ambiguity of transliterated titles in these languages is less of a problem now that users can view and search the vernacular scripts in LocatorPlus®. Translated titles in records created prior to March 1, 2007 will remain in the records.