LC practice/PCC practice: Apply this chapter to fictitious entities and real non-human entities following the guidelines below:

For the instructions related to RDA 9.2.2.5.3, the language preferred by the Library of Congress for reference sources is English; the preferred script is the Latin script.

Authorized access points in authority and bibliographic records should be in the Latin script. When transliteration is necessary, follow the ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts, approved by the Library of Congress and American Library Association, with note to the exceptions recorded at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.standards/docs.roman

Non-Latin forms may be recorded as variant access points in authority records (MARC field 4XX) and/or as parallel fields in bibliographic records (MARC field 880) for these languages/scripts: Perso-Arabic script (e.g., Arabic, Persian, Pushto, Urdu); Hebrew, Yiddish; Chinese, Japanese, Korean; Cyrillic-based scripts; and Greek.

LC practice/PCC practice: Persons who bear names derived from a non-Latin script but who write in a Latin script language should not be treated under this instruction. The decision that the person is writing in a Latin script language is based on the first item cataloged, i.e., the fact that the text of this item was originally written in a Latin script language. If it becomes evident later that most of the person’s works were written in a non-Latin script, apply the provisions of this policy statement.

Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Cyrillic: Apply the alternative when the first element of the preferred name begins with either a given name or a surname. If a person is likely to appear in general English-language reference sources, search Academic American Encyclopedia, The Encyclopedia Americana, and the New Encyclopaedia Britannica. If the name is found in all three sources in a single form, use that form. If the form varies in these three sources, use the form found in New Encyclopaedia Britannica. If the name is not found in all three of these sources, use the systematically romanized form of the name. Exception: For famous persons entered under given name but not found in all three of the general English-language encyclopedias because of specialized fame, consult major specialized encyclopedias (e.g., New Catholic Encyclopedia, The Oxford Classical Dictionary) to determine if there is a well-established English-language form of the name. ("Found in" the reference source means that there is an article under the person’s name.)

For persons of too recent fame to be included in the three general English-language encyclopedias named above (e.g., new authors, dancers, persons recently becoming famous as political or cultural figures), consult the yearbooks of the encyclopedias and such major newspapers as The New York Times and The Washington Post to determine if there is a well-established English-language form of the name.

Hebrew Alphabet: Follow this order of preference in choosing the heading for persons with names in the Hebrew alphabet:

All Other Languages Written in Non-Latin Scripts: Apply the alternative to use a well-established form in English as the preferred name if the cataloger’s judgment and experience suggests that the person is likely to be found in general English-language reference sources. Consider providing variant access points for forms not selected as the preferred name.