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The best solution for Greek signatures is, of course, to record them in
the Greek script. One can do that on OCLC if one has a Unicode
character map to copy the letters into the record. The tool I like to
use is BabelMap, which is available on the web. (One could also copy
it from a word processor into OCLC.) The Greek character set is a part
of the MARC 8 repertoire and may thus be used in the records. OCLC
just does not provide an easy method for entering the characters. <br>
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One could use the names of the letters, but for consistency sake, I did
not think it advisable. The names of the letters for Greek are
well-known, and the Hebrew names also to a certain degree. Church
Slavonic also has names of the letters, but they are not well-known
enough that one would want to use them in recording a signature. It
also makes a very long, cumbersome signature statement to use the names
of the letters. <br>
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As Deborah has pointed out, if you are transliterating the letters, you
must indicate in the signature statement which letters are
transliterations of Greek characters. "a-g [superscript 8] (in Greek
characters)." <br>
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Joseph Ross<br>
University of Notre Dame<br>
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Robert Maxwell wrote:<br>
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style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Robert L.
Maxwell<br>
Special Collections and Ancient Languages Catalog Librarian<br>
Genre/Form Authorities Librarian<br>
6728 Harold B. Lee Library<br>
Brigham Young University<br>
Provo, UT 84602<br>
(801)422-5568 </span><span
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";"> Will
Evans
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:evans@bostonathenaeum.org">mailto:evans@bostonathenaeum.org</a>] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 17, 2007 9:15 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Greek signatures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: blue;">At
the risk of
sounding like a Monday morning quarterback, I'm a little puzzled by
rule 7B9.9.
The item I have in hand has the preliminaries signed in Greek
characters and
the bulk of the text signed in Roman characters. As we all are now at
the mercy
of OCLC, which does not include Greek characters in its ALA set of
diacritics
and special characters, I'll end up with the following signature
statement:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: blue;">a-g[superscript
8] A-2H[superscript 8]</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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find this is confusing. I guess I can add a note indicating which
characters
are in Greek, but this requires extra work. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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of curiosity was a scheme of [alpha], [beta], [gamma], etc. ever
considered?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; color: blue;">^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<br>
Will Evans<br>
Rare Materials Catalog Librarian<br>
Biography & History Bibliographer<br>
Boston Athenaeum<br>
10 1/2 Beacon Street<br>
Boston, MA 02108<br>
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Telephone: (617) 227-0270, ext. 243<br>
Fax: (617) 227-5266<br>
<a href="http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/">http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/</a><br>
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