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These other scripts are in the x-refs and not the authorized heading - which causes a whole other set of authority control problems for those of us working in those languages. If you want to use the Eszett you probably could put it in an ex-ref in the authority record and then as a parallel field (linked 880) in the bib record the same way we do for the other languages. So this is a question for Luanne: is the Eszett okay in a 400 field? Sharon Domier East Asian Studies Librarian UMass Amherst Quoting Robert Bratton <[log in to unmask]>: > Why is it that we can have Chinese, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, etc. > scripts in NACO records, but the Eszett symbol is singled out as a > no-no? > > -- > Robert Bratton > Cataloging Librarian > Jacob Burns Law Library > George Washington University > Washington, DC 20052 > > > On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Goodson,Luanne <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> Dear NACO Participants, >> >> >> >> The Eszett symbol (ß -- often used in German for double s) is listed as "Do >> not use in NACO records" in the Authority File Comparison Rules (NACO >> Normalization) found on the PCC Website: >> http://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/naco/normrule-2.html >