Aaron Kuperman said on Autocat:
>Anglo-American codes (AACR2, MARC formats, etc.) reflect an
>Anglo-American bias (like duh!), and frankly, Americans are notoriously
>monolingual, and at best, languages such as French and German are
>considered "exotic", and the rules don't work well with materials in
>non-Roman scripts and non-Indo-European languages.
RDA is making this even worse, with English words replacing Latin
abbrevitions, and relator words being considered for entry points
(perhaps replacing statements of responsibility).
I suspect we are not the only supplier of records to mutlilingual
libraries internationally who will remain with AACR2 unless drastic
changes are made in the draft of RDA. We could not afford to create
different records for each catalogue language. We would greatly miss
the use of records found internatinally.
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