Best practices for original script (final draft)
Presentations from the Persian cataloging workshop at the 2008 MELA annual meeting:
Farideh Tehrani: Persian and Arabic romanization differences and AACR2 rules
Juliet Sabouri: Modern Persian names
Joyce Bell: Classical Persian names (click Edit>Edit slides to see the text of the talk)
Mozhgan Jalalzadeh: Fihrist-i mustanad-i asami-i mashahir va muallifan as an authority file
Akram Khabibullaev: Persian CIP
William Kopycki: Best practices for keyboarding technique for Persian script
Mid-East Cataloger's Desktop (word document)
Arabic Cataloging Manual (ACM)
Persian Cataloging Manual (PCM)
Persian Cataloging Task Force report
Survey (word document) conducted in 2005
Survey results (word document)
Persian cataloging focus group notes (word document)
Membership & Charge
Mark Muehlhaeusler, Chair, Georgetown University
Joyce Bell, Director of Cataloging and Metadata Services, Princeton University
Meryle Gaston, Middle East Studies Librarian, University of California, Santa Barbara
David Giovacchini, Bibliographer for Middle East Electronic Resources, and the Arts of the Islamic World, Stanford University
William Kopycki, Middle East Bibliographer, University of Pennsylvania
Sarah Ozturk, Section Head, Middle East Section, Asian and Middle Eastern Division, Library of Congress
CHARGE: to identify and consider issues, make recommendations, and work with other appropriate bodies on matters related to the descriptive and subject cataloging, classification, and content designation of materials from and about the Middle East.