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Are there any special considerations for records with both Latin and non-Latin scripts in linked fields?

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Are there any special considerations for records with both Latin and non-Latin scripts in linked fields?

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If your institution does not have the expertise to work with the various non-Latin scripts that OCLC supports, you may wish to leave that activity to institutions with the appropriate language and script skills. If you do work on records containing non-Latin scripts, please use the same care in your replace transaction as you would in creating a new full-level record. Make sure to maintain appropriate relationships between Latin and non-Latin scripts fields, especially when any of the following changes were made in the Latin field: • If personal name headings were controlled to an authority record with date qualifier, etc. • If a geographic name heading contains a Latin script qualifier • If a traced series (using 490 1 and 8XX fields) contains a Latin script qualifier, etc. Remember also that Library of Congress topical subject terms and non-geographic subdivisions should not be linked to non-Latin script terms. Field 650 with 2nd indicator 0 can be linked to a non-Latin script counte

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