Abstract
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed. (AACR2) rule 1.0E1 allows title and statement of responsibility, edition, publication and/or distribution data, and series title to be "transcribed from the item itself in the language and script (wherever practicable) in which it appears there." However, AACR2 will be replaced by a set of guidelines entitled Resource Description and Access (RDA). This article compares various guidelines from the November 2008 draft of RDA that are applicable to transcribing titles and names written in non-roman languages and/or scripts with their counterparts in its predecessor.

"This deals with with Library of Congress procedures and workflows now that the Library has moved its processing of non-roman materials to its Voyager database.

PCC members will find the information in questions 3--6 relevant to matters of languages, dual fields, bi-directionality, spacing, and the eventual use of non-roman data in authority records."

Several working documents discussing how to make RDA less English-centric.