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The links below are to the scanned text of the 1997 edition of the ALA-LC Romanization Tables: Transliteration Schemes for Non-Roman Scripts, approved by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association, with the following exceptions:
- The table for Chinese is a revised table reflecting the Library's conversion to Pinyin romanization in 2000.
- The table for Kurdish is a revised table that replaces both the Kurdish (in Perso-Arabic Script) table (p. 114-155) and the Kurdish (1946) section of the Non-Slavic Languages (in Cyrillic Script) table (p. 148)
- The table for Ladino is a revised table that was approved in 2005.
- The table for Inuktitut is a new table that was approved in 2007.
- The table for Korean is a revised table that was approved in 2009.
- Two separate tables for ancient Greek and modern Greek replaced the single table for Greek in 2009.
The 1997 edition of the tables is also available for purchase in book form from the Cataloging Distribution Service.