Rejoinder to letter from Stephen P. Harter

✍ Scribed by Thom, James ;Zobel, Justin

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 90 KB
• Volume: 44
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(199305)44:4<213::aid-asi7>3.0.co;2-v

✦ Synopsis

pp. 459-476)

. Further evidence in support of their position can be found in the doctoral dissertation from Columbia University by Dr. Farideh Tehrani (Rutgers University Library) published as Negligence and Chaos: Bibliographical Access to Persian-Language Materials in the United States (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1991).

Dr. Tehrani demonstrates that American libraries have invested large sums of money to acquire Persian-language materials, but that their inadequate transliteration and cataloging systems have made these materials inaccessible to users. This has resulted in an unfortunate and inexcusable waste. The author proposes a simple script conversion method which uses practically no diacritical marks.