Re: jewish music databases

[Yakov (Koby) <kchodosh...>]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:19:32 -0500, you wrote:

>Your problem is one continually confronted by libraries cataloging Jewish 
>music. The best on-line world data base for music is OCLC, yet they still 
>haven't developed use of Hebrew fonts. Every Hebrew and Yiddish title must be 
>"romanized" according to standard Library of Congress procedure. This is an 
>arcane task--particularly to those of us without a strong knowledge of modern 
>Hebrew grammar. Also, be informed that LC's romanization scheme is different 
>from YIVO's.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, back up... what's OCLC? what's YIVO?

and... are they free? :)

Yakov.
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