FAQ

Available Characters

The characters that can be used on the Japanese version of the page are Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana, and alphanumeric characters. You can enter English letters in either uppercase or lowercase. You may also use either full-width or half-width characters.

Searching for Arabic, Devanagari, African, and Southeast Asian scripts

You can search using the original spelling (the script as it appears in the material), but you can also search using keywords romanized into the Latin alphabet according to the ALA-LC Romanization Tables provided by the Library of Congress. Since some materials are cataloged only with romanized Latin alphabet text, if you do not get any results with the original spelling, please romanize the terms and try searching again.