Language Expertise

within the Monographic 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)
Belorussian	Diana Brooking (working) Lijana Holmes (reading)	Portuguese	Lijana Holmes (working) Mary Kalnin (working)
Bulgarian	Diana Brooking (working) Lijana Holmes (working)	Qazaq	Joe Kiegel (working)
Chinese	May Rathbone (fluent)	Romance Languages	Lijana Holmes (working) Adam Schiff (working)
Czech	Diana Brooking (working) Lijana Holmes (working)	Romanian	Diana Brooking (working)
Danish	Mary Kalnin (working)	Russian	Diana Brooking (fluent) Lijana Holmes (fluent) Mary Kalnin (romanization) Joe Kiegel (fluent)
Finnish	Mary Kalnin (working)	Sanskrit	Sujatha Werake (working)
French	Theodore Gerontakos (working) Janet Heineck (reading) Lijana Holmes (working) Mary Kalnin (fluent) Joe Kiegel (working) Helice Koffler (working) Adam Schiff (fluent) Mary Whiting (reading)	Serbo-Croatian	Diana Brooking (working) Lijana Holmes (working)
German	Diana Brooking (fluent) Helice Koffler (working) Mary Whiting (working)	Sinhalese	Sujatha Werake (fluent)
Hebrew	Janet Heineck (reading)	Slovak	Diana Brooking (working) Lijana Holmes (working)
Italian	Lijana Holmes (working) Mary Kalnin (reading)	Slovenian	Diana Brooking (working) Lijana Holmes (working)
Japanese	May Rathbone (working) Laura Tuck (reading)	Spanish	Diana Brooking (reading) Theodore Gerontakos (working) Lijana Holmes (reading) Mary Kalnin (fluent) Helice Koffler (working) Heather Johnson (working) Mary Whiting (reading)
Kyrgyz	Joe Kiegel (working)	Swedish	Diana Brooking (reading) Mary Kalnin (working)
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	Mary Kalnin (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)