Fwd: [SEELANGS] Translitaration Rules?

[June Farris]

Hello!
There is no one correct transliteration system.  Every country using 
the Latin alphabet has its own systems of transliteration from 
Cyrillic to Latin alphabet. There are several in North America.  If 
you have no restrictions from your institution, your publisher or the 
journal  in which you're publishing (each is likely to have its 
preferred system) , then I suggest that you use the Library of 
Congress transliteration system.  Most North American library 
catalogs, as well as many electronic databases (WorldCat, RLG Union 
Catalog, MLA, Absees Online, Historical Abstracts, the RLG Russian 
Acedemy of Sciences database, etc.) use the Library of Congress 
system. Therefore, if someone is looking up one the citations in your 
footnotes or bibliography, he/she will not have to re-transliterate 
your citation into the Library of Congress system (which uses no 
diacritics) to perform a search.

You can find the LC system for Russian (and other Cyrillic alphabet 
languages) at: http://www.indiana.edu/%7Elibslav/slavcatman/sltrans.html

Regards,
June Farris



>Dear All,
>
>Could anyone enlighten me about the rules of Russian to English
>transliteration (used when rendering Russian titles, for example)? Is there
>a set of rules that is currently considered _standard_ across Slavic
>studies? Is it MLA?
>
>Best wishes,
>Andrey Shcherbenok
>
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June Pachuta Farris
Bibliographer for Slavic, East European
and Eurasian Studies
University of Chicago
Room 263, Regenstein Library
1100 E. 57th Street
Chicago, IL  60637
jpf3 at uchicago.edu
773-702-8456 (phone)
773-702-6623 (fax) 

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