Japanese Romanization Table Revision Approved
The ALA-LC Romanization tables are developed jointly by the Library of Congress (LC) and
the American Library Association (ALA). Romanization schemes enable the cataloging of
foreign language materials. Romanized cataloging in turn supports circulation,
acquisitions, serials check-in, shelflisting, shelving, and reference, particularly in
library catalogs that are unable to display non-roman alphabet information.
The ALCTS Committee on Cataloging: Asian and African Materials (CC:AAM) recently received
and reviewed a proposal to revise the Japanese romanization table. The table has
subsequently been approved.
The revised Japanese romanization table is now available for downloading from the ALA-LC
Romanization Tables
webpage<http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html>
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html .
Please direct any questions about romanization tables to Bruce Johnson, Policy and
Standards Division (bjoh@loc.gov<mailto:bjoh@loc.gov>).