CONSER policy on spacing in Korean Hangul

On October 1st, CONSER will adopt the practice of providing spaces between Korean words and lexical units in nonroman (vernacular) fields of CJK serial records. This change will bring CONSER Korean serial cataloging in line with the long-standing practice for LC Korean monograph cataloging records, which were previously input via RLIN.

Beginning in October, CONSER participants should start inputting spaces between lexical units in fields that consist solely of hangul, or hangul and ideographs, so that the nonroman data mirrors the spacing in the parallel romanized fields (which are romanized following the guidelines in the ALA-LC Romanization Tables). Do not insert spaces in nonroman fields that consist solely of Chinese characters, even though they are Romanized as Korean in the parallel field.

See the examples (from OCLC #85451485 and #85479671) of the new spacing policy available from: http://www.loc.gov/acq/conser/KoreanSpacingExamples.pdf .

LC, in conjunction with OCLC, will attempt to identify retrospective Korean CONSER records and update the nonroman fields to the new spacing policy. CONSER participants are also free to update retrospective records as they encounter them.

Email from Les Hawkins, CONSER Coordinator
Forwarded to Cataloging Committee, Serials Fun Group, and CJK by Adolfo Tarang
September 5, 2007