Current documents under discussion
a. MARC Discussion Paper no. 2026-DP07: "Adding an indicator for non-preferred variant headings in 4XX fields in the MARC 21 authority format
Subcommittee on the Cataloging Guidelines for Chinese Rare Books
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Non-Latin Script Variants in Name Authority Records (NARs) pilot
This project aims to improve the coding of non-Latin script variants found within Library of Congress Name Authority Records by adding BCP-47 coding. The pilot phase allows catalogers working in languages that do not use Latin script to test and evaluate the guidelines proposed by the Non-Latin Script Variants in NARs Task Group.
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