Variant subtag proposal: ALA-LC romanization of Russian

[Rebecca S Guenther]

In the last statement I would say that the romanization is used in English speaking countries throughout the world, not just in the US.
We have had a record sharing environment in the bibliographic world for 40 years and the records are highly standardized, using ALA/LC romanization tables as a standard. Only recently have our sharable records been able to include encoding in the vernacular script.

Rebecca

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>>> Avram Lyon <ajlyon at ucla.edu> 11/24/2009 1:34 AM >>>
As there has no official revised proposal, I'd like to submit the
following variant subtag for official review:

==
LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM
  1. Name of requester: Avram Lyon
  2. E-mail address of requester: ajlyon at ucla.edu 
  3. Record Requested:

     Type: variant
     Subtag: alalc97
     Description: ALA-LC Romanization, 1997 edition
     Comments: Romanizations recommended by the American
Library Association and the Library of Congress, in "ALA-LC Romanization
Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts" (1997)

  4. Intended meaning of the subtag:
This variant subtag is intended to apply to text presented in
the Library of Congress romanization, widely used in English-language
academic works that discuss or employ sources that use non-Latin scripts.

  5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article):
American Library Association and Library of Congress. 1997.
ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman
Scripts. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html 

  6. Any other relevant information:
This romanization is used in library bibliographic systems across the
United States and encompasses the standard scholarly transliteration
systems of many disciplines.
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