Treffer: Computer-oriented bibliographic control for cyrillic documents with or without script conversion.

Most libraries in English-speaking countries own materials in nonroman scripts. Access to these documents is provided through romanization. Online catalogs often hold a large number of romanized bibliographic records. Research into users' needs for searching and displaying the original nonroman alphabets has been under way for some time. In most libraries, users are not able to search and display a bibliographic record in the script of the original document. A simple process that eliminates the need for storing both original and transliterated forms in bibliographic records is introduced. The conversions are done locally using a microcomputer. The user can search both the romanized and the original alphabets. The system is based on the fact that transliteration must necessarily be a reversible process for alphabets with a limited number of graphemes. This system would fail for some of the simplified transliteration schemes and in these cases would only work with human intervention or with the use of a spelling dictionary. The Slavic languages with the Cyrillic alphabets are used as examples throughout. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]