The romanization of non-Latin script languages in regular fields in bibliographic records is mandatory in most if not all North American cataloging for institutions of higher education. But this can be an impediment for multi-lingual users of online catalogs like HathiTrust, especially ESL users whose first language is usually in a non-Latin script. Mandarin and Japanese are primary examples of the lose of nuance in romanization, though there are others. Conversations with users of HathiTrust combined with collection analysis are used to excavate whether relying on romanization is still valuable or not in the context of a digital-only library.