Martin The BL has used LC/NAF in current cataloguing for a number of years, but we have large numbers of legacy bibliographic records containing headings from our own former national authority file, and others created to standards that preceded that (for example, successive iterations of Panizzi's rules). Very many of these headings have been aligned to NACO, but a large number have not. Yet.
We are doing an increasing amount of name authority record creation in RDA, for NACO, and should be doing all of it in RDA by the end of this year. Regards Richard -----Original Message----- From: Resource Description and Access / Resource Description and Access [mailto:RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA] On Behalf Of Kelleher, Martin Sent: 23 July 2012 15:56 To: RDA-L@LISTSERV.LAC-BAC.GC.CA Subject: Re: [RDA-L] Christianity-centric terminology in RDA Hi Richard Nope! Well not uniformly, not by a long chalk. We use fairly nonstandard headings (although not as nonstandard as I thought, apparently), and internally maintained authorities, although bulk loads of ebooks mean we go for NAF headings where consistency can be maintained with our own standards where possible. I guess we may go more or less standard according to how fully we apply RDA.... The BL isn't entirely NACO though, is it? There always seem to be inconsistencies between the BL, LoC and OCLC anyway, as far as I can tell, but maybe I've not checked up on it so much recently..... Cheers! Martin ************************************************************************** Experience the British Library online at http://www.bl.uk/ The British Library’s new interactive Annual Report and Accounts 2010/11 : http://www.bl.uk/annualreport2010-11http://www.bl.uk/knowledge Help the British Library conserve the world's knowledge. Adopt a Book. http://www.bl.uk/adoptabook The Library's St Pancras site is WiFi - enabled ************************************************************************* The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail and notify the mailto:postmas...@bl.uk : The contents of this e-mail must not be disclosed or copied without the sender's consent. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the British Library. The British Library does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. ************************************************************************* Think before you print
