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I would only record the language the person expresses themselves in, not all the languages they might know to read or speak. The languages should correspond to what you'd put in the MARC 008 and/or 041 $a. Adam Schiff Principal Cataloger University of Washington Libraries On Thu, 9 Oct 2014, Shorten, Jay wrote: > Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 14:30:35 +0000 > From: "Shorten, Jay" <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: Program for Cooperative Cataloging <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: 377 field > > If someone translates from French to English, should the 377 field of the authority record read eng $a fre ? Or what if that person writes about the French language, but not necessarily in the French language? Is 377 used for this, or is it only for languages the person has expressed themselves in (written, sung, filmed, etc.)? > > Jay Shorten > Cataloger, Monographs and Electronic Resources > Associate Professor of Bibliography > Catalog Department > University Libraries > University of Oklahoma > Co-owner, PERSNAME-L, the list about personal names in bibliographic and authority records > > [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> > > > > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Adam L. Schiff Principal Cataloger University of Washington Libraries Box 352900 Seattle, WA 98195-2900 (206) 543-8409 (206) 685-8782 fax [log in to unmask] http://faculty.washington.edu/~aschiff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~