Dear CoHSL members, Would you kindly forward this query to your appropriate cataloging departments if you are unable to answer? I am trying to get a handle on best practices for handling the Greek character set in bibliographic records. 1. Which libraries are incorporating the Greek character set in bibliographic records and what is your practice? 2. I have noticed that OCLC records that do include Greek characters, do not include the tonos, even though there are correct unicode values for these. a. Is there are reason for this? If yes, please let us know! 3. If we proceed with the Modern Greek Resources Project and decide that shared cataloging is one of our goals, then should we not consider including the tonos so that we will be able to use records from Greece? As far as what we are doing at the Harvard College Library--we are still just creating transliterated recs. since adding the paired fields requires twice the work. However, we do accept records with the Greek character set from the University of Crete (which include the tonos), and then add the appropriate parallel fields. We also share the Harvard catalog with our colleagues at Dumbarton Oaks, who are cataloging with parallel fields, but without the tonos. I would like to hear from them as well, perhaps offering advice as to how they are managing this extra step in the cataloging process. I would be very grateful for any responses to this message. And please do post to the list since I believe that most members are interested in this topic. Best regards, Rhea -- Rhea K. Lesage Head and Bibliographer for Modern Greek Modern Greek Section Collection Development Department Widener Library Harvard College Library Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)495-3632 FAX (617)496-8704 _______________________________________________ CoHSL-list mailing list CoHSL-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/cohsl-list