(last updated 2009-12-14) LANGUAGE SUBTAG REGISTRATION FORM 1. Name of requester: Avram Lyon 2. E-mail address of requester: ajlyon at ucla.edu 3. Record Requested: Type: variant Subtag: alalc97 Description: ALA-LC Romanization, 1997 edition Comments: Romanizations recommended by the American Library Association and the Library of Congress, in "ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts" (1997), ISBN 978-0-8444-0940-5. 4. Intended meaning of the subtag: This variant subtag is intended to apply to text presented in the Library of Congress romanization, widely used in English-language academic works that discuss or employ sources that use non-Latin scripts. 5. Reference to published description of the language (book or article): American Library Association and Library of Congress. 1997. ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html 6. Any other relevant information: This romanization is used in library bibliographic systems across the United States and encompasses the standard scholarly transliteration systems of many disciplines. (file created 2009-12-14)