Via a Facebook post by our old pal Slavomír Čéplö a/k/a bulbul, the Arabic Discovery Catalog:
OCLC has introduced the Arabic Discovery Catalog, a new initiative that brings together bibliographic records from libraries located in Arab countries into one catalog to enhance the discoverability and visibility of these collections for international research.
The Arabic Discovery Catalog currently includes records of more than 3.8 million Arabic resources and continues to grow, making it one of the most comprehensive bibliographic resources of Arabic culture.
OCLC staff have indexed records in Arabic and taken steps to ensure that sorting and searching of results are accurately displayed to deliver an intuitive and seamless discovery experience using Arabic script. The Arabic Discovery Catalog is built on the WorldCat Discovery platform, the discovery solution developed by OCLC that makes it possible for people easily find and get resources available in libraries worldwide through a single search.
Also, “Happy Birthday” to the Linguistic Society of America (it turns 100 in January), and — just for the hell of it — Wikipedia’s list of bodies that consider themselves to be authorities on standard languages, often called language academies (note the pungent parenthetical on Yiddish: “YIVO does not regulate or hold any sway over the Yiddish used in Ultra-Orthodox circles where the Yiddish language is most used in current times”).
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