Apologies for not sharing this sooner. To the attention of our NACO catalogers 
for immediate implementation.

Best wishes and שבת שלום, Jasmin

From: Program for Cooperative Cataloging <[email protected]> On Behalf 
Of Jennifer W. Baxmeyer
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2022 9:07 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [PCCLIST] Revised Report on Recording Gender in Personal Name 
Authority Records

Good morning!

In spring 2021, the PCC Advisory Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 
(DEI) reconvened the Ad Hoc Task Group on Recording Gender in Name Authority 
Records to update its original 
report<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/documents/Gender_375*20field_RecommendationReport.pdf__;JQ!!IBzWLUs!BtztapQRTL3y5IlmjEmvTXI4OLl4wbzqDpKkBm-6bxkknm2uamUrHd3tJKg5SFM_xJqB$>
 from October 2016.

It is with deep gratitude for the task group (original members Amber Billey 
(chair), Matthew Haugen, John Hostage, Nancy Sack, and Adam Schiff, plus new 
members Jay Colbert and Violeta Ilik) for their thoughtful work and patience 
that I am sharing with you that PoCo, the PCC Policy Committee, has approved 
the task group’s “Revised Report on Recording Gender in Personal Name Authority 
Records.” A link to the revised report can be found on the PCC 
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 under “What’s New?” but for your convenience, here is a direct link to the 
report: 
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The recommendation approved by PoCo is “Do not record the RDA gender element 
(MARC 375) in personal name authority records. Delete existing 375 fields when 
editing a record for any other reason.”

As you read the revised report, you will notice that several issues raised in 
the original report have been deferred and the plan is to address these issues 
separately in a new task group charged by the PCC Advisory Committee on DEI. 
The issues to be addressed include recording of gender or gendered terms in 
other 3XX fields (including Authority 374 for occupation/profession, 
Bibliographic or Authority 385 for audience characteristics, and Bibliographic 
or Authority 386 for creator/contributor characteristics), recording of 
unstructured information about a person’s gender in Authority 6XX fields, and 
recording of deadnames in Authority 400 and supporting 6XX fields.

The charge is currently being written, and if you are interested in serving on 
this new task group, please let me know: 
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>.

With kind regards,

Jennifer
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Jennifer Baxmeyer (Jennifer, she/her)
Chair, PCC Advisory Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Assistant University Librarian for Metadata Services
Princeton University Library
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Princeton NJ 08540
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