[Yulcat-l] Proposal to allow the addition of dates to established personal name headings

[Ellen Jaramillo]

oh my, before CPSO worries about "killing off" artists and literary 
figures, it would be nice if their proposal to add to currently established 
headings would first assure that they're using the person's real name, and 
not merely a translation--

the currently established NACO heading is:
Borges, Jorge Luis, |d 1899-

and not as in example #5 as they've given on their website:
"scholars or literary figures, such as:
100 1# $a Borges, Jorge Louis, $d 1899-   "

thanks for letting me vent--ej.



At 01:04 PM 7/6/2005, Manon Theroux wrote:
>On June 23 I forwarded a PCC announcement about a proposed change in 
>policy for adding dates to already established personal name headings. For 
>those who haven't seen it, the full text of the proposal is up on the CPSO 
>site at LC:
>http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/pndates.html
>
>There have been some very interesting discussions on the PCCLIST and 
>AUTOCAT lists.
>
>-Manon
>
>At 6/23/2005 12:35 PM, Manon Theroux wrote:
>>Forwarding below some announcements from the Program for Cooperative 
>>Cataloging.
>>
>>See especially the paragraphs announcing a proposal to allow NACO 
>>catalogers to add dates to existing personal name headings (currently 
>>there are only a few instances when we are allowed to add dates to 
>>existing headings - this policy minimizes the need for catalog 
>>maintenance but frustrates patrons who don't understand why death dates 
>>aren't present in headings for persons who are long-since deceased). I'll 
>>forward more info on this proposal as it becomes available, but do let me 
>>know if you have any comments. I'll work with the NACO Coordinating 
>>Committee to put together a Yale response before the 7/22 deadline.
>>
>>-Manon
>
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