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Dissertation Information for Farideh Tehrani

NAME:
- Farideh Tehrani

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- Columbia University (USA) (1987)

ADVISORS:
- Jane Anne Therese Hannigan

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- None

MPACT Status: Incomplete - Ambiguous

Title: Bibliographical access to Persian language materials in the United States

Abstract: During the last quarter of a century the Persian Language collections in American Libraries have increased tremendously. The accessibility of these materials is directly related to the use of an adequate transliteration scheme, cataloging rules for establishment of the entry and the employment of a cataloging staff who are knowledgeable in Farsi.

This study examines the cataloging practices of five major research libraries in relation to the users' need. The users' approaches are established by examining a diversity of Iranian primary and secondary sources. The catalog entries (in book and card forms) of the five libraries in the study are then compared with the users' approach.

In this process, Sharify's transliteration scheme and his code of rules for entry, the Library of Congress Romanization Scheme and the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules for entry are thoroughly analyzed and the impact on the accessibility of these materials studied.

After giving serious consideration to adopting Sharify's scheme, which is devised on the basis of users' approach, the Library of Congress, following the prevailing practice, finally decided to accept the Social Science Research Council's System, which treats Farsi vowels exactly like Arabic. Therefore the Library of Congress scheme has had negative impact on the accessibility of Persian language.

As far as the form of catalog entries is concerned, the study has not discovered any major problems with regard to the names of authors after 1926, the date at which family names were adopted. However, the names of the authors of the period between 652 and 1926 present considerable problems.

The study recommends the use of vernacular script and endorses the Library of Congress' action in favor of using Farsi script at least for the bibliographical description.

The investigator proposes a system of script conversion based on "usage in speech," which gives primary importance to the users' approach. This system abandons the concept of "reversibility" and hence avoids the use of unnecessary and cumbersome diacritical marks.

MPACT Scores for Farideh Tehrani

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calculated 2008-01-31 06:02:03

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