Language Expertise

The foreign language expertise of Cataloging and Metadata Services Division staff

Definitions of levels of expertise:

Fluent: Easy reading and speaking ability, almost native.
Reading: Comfortable reading without use of a dictionary.
Working: Can catalog with use of dictionary as necessary.

Language	Name (Expertise)	Language	Name (Expertise)
Arabic	Janet Heineck (reading) Vincent Wilhite (working)	Polish	Diana Brooking (reading) Lijana Holmes (reading)
Belarusian	Diana Brooking (working) Lijana Holmes (reading)	Portuguese	Lijana Holmes (working)
Bulgarian	Diana Brooking (working) Lijana Holmes (working) Steven Shadle (working)	Qazaq	Joe Kiegel (working)
Chinese	Phyllis Chan (fluent) May Rathbone (fluent) Steven Shadle (working)	Romance Languages	Lijana Holmes (working) Adam Schiff (working) Steven Shadle (working)
Czech	Diana Brooking (working) Lijana Holmes (working)	Romanian	Diana Brooking (working)
Danish	Diana Brookin (working)	Russian	Diana Brooking (fluent) Lijana Holmes (fluent) Joe Kiegel (fluent)
French	Theodore Gerontakos (working) Janet Heineck (reading) Lijana Holmes (working) Joe Kiegel (working) Helice Koffler (working) Kristin Lindlan (reading) Vera Otmar (working) Adam Schiff (reading) Steven Shadle (reading) Mary Whiting (reading)	Sanskrit	Sujatha Werake (working)
German	Diana Brooking (fluent) Helice Koffler (working) Kristin Lindlan (reading) Vera Otmar (fluent) Steven Shadle (working) Mary Whiting (working)	Serbo-Croatian	Diana Brooking (working) Lijana Holmes (working) Steven Shadle (working)
Hebrew	Janet Heineck (reading)	Sinhalese	Sujatha Werake (fluent)
Indonesian	Dana Shemorry (working)
Italian	Lijana Holmes (working) Mary Mathiason (working)	Slovak	Diana Brooking (working) Lijana Holmes (working)
Japanese	May Rathbone (working) Steven Shadle (working) Dana Shemorry (working) Laura Tuck (reading)	Slovenian	Diana Brooking (working) Lijana Holmes (working)
Korean	Steven Shadle (working)	Spanish	Diana Brooking (reading) Theodore Gerontakos (working) Lijana Holmes (reading) Helice Koffler (working) Heather Johnson (working) Dana Shemorry (working) Mary Whiting (reading)
Kyrgyz	Joe Kiegel (working)	Swedish	Diana Brooking (reading)
Latin	Lijana Holmes (working)	Thai	Laura Tuck (working)
Latvian	Lijana Holmes (reading)	Turkish	Janet Heineck (reading) Vincent Wilhite (reading)
Lithuanian	Lijana Holmes (fluent)	Ukrainian	Diana Brooking (working) Lijana Holmes (reading)
Norwegian	Diane Brooking (working)	Urdu	Janet Heineck (working)
Pali	Sujatha Werake (working)	Uzbek	Joe Kiegel (working)
Persian	Janet Heineck (working) Vincent Wilhite (working)	Vietnamese	Huong Ngo (fluent)
		Yiddish	Janet Heineck (working)