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Note: For language catalogers, see Sorting Categories/Specialties.

KEY

Cataloging knowledge (for description): rudimentary
Reading knowledge: can understand a text with minimal use of dictionary
Fluent: excellent, native or near native-speaker

Afrikaans: Fluent: Susanna Coetzee
Cataloging knowledge: Christopher Walker
Arabic: Cataloging knowledge: Jeff Edmunds, Katherine Strenko
Armenian: Cataloging knowledge: Ken Robinson
Catalán: Reading knowledge: Katherine Strenko
Cataloging knowledge: Christopher Walker
Chinese: Fluent: Jade Atwill
Czech: Cataloging knowledge: Jeff Edmunds, Ken Robinson, Katherine Strenko
Dutch: Reading knowledge: Susanna Coetzee
Cataloging knowledge: Paige Andrew, Katherine Strenko, Christopher Walker
Flemish: Reading knowledge: Susanna Coetzee
French: Fluent: Jeff Edmunds, Christopher Walker; Reading knowledge: Paige Andrew, John Attig, Will Covington, Charlene Hitchcock, Susan Houser, Lori Leatherman, Jacqueline Peagler, Katherine Strenko, Brent Stump; Cataloging knowledge: Valerie Allen, John Hamilton, Anna Letowski, Ken Robinson
German: Reading knowledge: Susanna Coetzee, Jeff Edmunds, Steve Kroger; Cataloging knowledge: Valerie Allen, Paige Andrew, John Attig, Will Covington, Robert Freeborn, Charlene Hitchcock, Carol Holt, Susan Houser, Jacqueline Peagler, Ken Robinson (including Alsatian), Katherine Strenko, Christopher Walker
Greek: Cataloging knowledge: John Hamilton, Ken Robinson, Katherine Strenko
Hebrew: Cataloging knowledge: Ken Robinson
Italian: Reading knowledge: Katherine Strenko, Christopher Walker; Cataloging knowledge: Paige Andrew, John Attig, Will Covington, John Hamilton, Charlene Hitchcock, Jacqueline Peagler
Japanese: Reading knowledge: Jade Atwill
Latin: Reading knowledge: John Hamilton; Cataloging knowledge: John Attig, Will Covington, Katherine Strenko
Polish: Fluent: Anna Letowski; Cataloging knowledge: Jeff Edmunds, Katherine Strenko
Portuguese: Reading knowledge: Katherine Strenko; Cataloging knowledge: John Hamilton
Russian: Reading knowledge: Jeff Edmunds, Robert Freeborn, Anna Letowski; Cataloging knowledge: Katherine Strenko
Scandanavian Languages: Cataloging knowledge: Paige Andrew, Ken Robinson, Katherine Strenko, Christopher Walker
Spanish: Fluent: Katherine Strenko; Reading knowledge: John Hamilton; Cataloging knowledge: Valerie Allen, Paige Andrew, John Attig, Will Covington, Elaine Fetterolf, Charlene Hitchcock, Carol Holt, Susan Houser, Ken Robinson, Christopher Walker
Ukranian: Cataloging knowledge: Jeff Edmunds, Katherine Strenko
Welsh: Cataloging knowledge: John Hamilton

To contact any of these individuals, please see the Cataloging Services Directory