Editing ALA-LC romanization (section)

==Applications==
The system is used to represent bibliographic information by North American libraries and the British Library (for acquisitions since 1975)<ref name=British_Library>"[http://www.bl.uk/help/search-for-cyrillic-items Searching for Cyrillic items in the catalogues of the British Library: guidelines and transliteration tables]"</ref>
and in publications throughout the English-speaking world.

The [[Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules]] require catalogers to romanize [[Authority control|access points]] from their non-Roman originals.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Agenbroad|first1=James E.|title=Romanization Is Not Enough|journal=Cataloging & Classification Quarterly|date=5 June 2006|volume=42|issue=2|pages=21–34|doi=10.1300/J104v42n02_03|s2cid=218589002 }}</ref>  However, as the [[MARC standards]] have been expanded to allow records containing [[Unicode]] characters,<ref>{{cite journal|last1=McCallum|first1=S.H.|title=MARC: keystone for library automation|journal=IEEE Annals of the History of Computing|volume=24|issue=2|pages=34–49|doi=10.1109/MAHC.2002.1010068|year=2002}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Aliprand|first1=Joan M.|title=The Structure and Content of MARC 21 Records in the Unicode Environment|journal=Information Technology and Libraries|date=22 January 2013|volume=24|issue=4|pages=170|doi=10.6017/ital.v24i4.3381|doi-access=free}}</ref>
many cataloguers now include bibliographic data in both Roman and original scripts. The emerging [[Resource Description and Access]] continues many of AACR's recommendations but refers to the process as "[[transliteration]]" rather than "Romanization."<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Seikel|first1=Michele|title=No More Romanizing: The Attempt to Be Less Anglocentric in RDA|journal=Cataloging & Classification Quarterly|date=9 October 2009|volume=47|issue=8|pages=741–748|doi=10.1080/01639370903203192|s2cid=60695345}}</ref>