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Gender trouble: revisiting PUL policy for establishing gender in Authority records

Up to December 2017, Princeton’s guidelines for RDA NACO state that the field 375 Gender should be included in the authority record. It reads:

375 Gender Include if you know or can readily tell from name. If gender is not easily identifiable, do not enter anything

Males $2 lcdgt

Females $2 lcdgt

It specifies that "All fields (except gender) need to be justified by information contained in the 670".

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