Colleagues: I catalog at the Sosnick Library, Temple B'nai Israel, Sacramento, CA.
I expressed my disappointment as a cataloger at the fact that the new cataloging code, RDA (Resource Description & Access), clings to the Christianity-centric way of expressing time, i.e. BC and AD, instead of swapping to the religion-neutral BCE/CE. I was told that the RDA committee considered going that way but decided the BCE/CE practice was still not "common" enough to be adopted. I've lodged a complaint with RDA Toolkit Help. It seems high time to me to use terms that don't offend. Buzz Haughton [email protected] __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
