> Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 12:56:21 -0700 (PDT) > From: Andrea Rapp <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] BC/AD vs BCE/CE > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > I just can't get offended at BC/AD. ?Besides, even CE/BCE are based on the > assumed birth year of guess-who.? Andrea Rapp > \ > Subject: [ha-Safran] BC/AD vs BCE/CE > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, July 22, 2012, 3:40 PM > > > 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]
Hello, Andrea! Sorry to correct you, but the "C" in CE/BCE does not stand for "Christ" or "Christian", but rather "Common", i.e. Before the Common Era (BCE) Common Era (CE) The terminology here is entirely religion-neutral, which is why I think RDA should make use of it. (My conspiratorial way of thinking inclines me to think that maybe some fundamentalist Christians said no, but of course I have no way of proving that. ;-)) 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
