This is true, of course. I find I consult French authority records (which
indicate gender), directly or shown in VIAF, more often than others; it applies
also to Latin and Greek, though the instances when Latin, or pre-modern Greek,
would call for masculine/feminine distinctions in cataloguing are probably few!
Hal Cain
Melbourne, Australia
hegc...@gmail.com
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:14:28 -0500, Adger Williams <awilli...@colgate.edu>
wrote:
>Note that this is not peculiar to French. (Spanish, German, Russian,
>Italian,... all share this feature)
>
>On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:51 PM, J. McRee Elrod <m...@slc.bc.ca> wrote:
>
>> Friend Hal from down under has pointed out yet another problem with
>> RDA words rather than hyphens, when only one of birth or death date is
>> known. The words in French would differ with gender:
>>
>> "... the need to distinguish gender in French: né masc., née fem. for
>> 'born', mort/morte for 'died'."
>>
>>
>> __ __ J. McRee (Mac) Elrod (m...@slc.bc.ca)
>> {__ | / Special Libraries Cataloguing HTTP://www.slc.bc.ca/
>> ___} |__ \__________________________________________________________
>>
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>Adger Williams
>Colgate University Library
>315-228-7310
>awilli...@colgate.edu
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