I’ll get in trouble for saying this, but so what? The file maintenance is not an unbearable burden.
However, before anyone goes off the rails, I will also say that John is right, of course, as the name is unique and doesn’t need dates. The only serious objection I have is that, incredibly, LC provided no justification in the record for the death date:
010 n 84216417
040 DLC ǂb eng ǂe rda ǂc DLC ǂd DLC
046 ǂf 1917-02-06 ǂg 2016-12-18
1001 Gabor, Zsa Zsa, ǂd 1917-2016
370 Budapest (Hungary) ǂb Los Angeles (Calif.) ǂ2 naf
374 Actors ǂa Socialites ǂ2 lcsh
375 female
4001 Gábor, Sári, ǂd 1917-2016
4001 Gábor, Zsa Zsa ǂw nne
670 Such devoted sisters, 1985: ǂb CIP galley (Zsa Zsa Gábor)
670 Filmgoers companion, 1977 ǂb (Zsa Zsa Gábor; b. 1919 [sic])
670 LC data base, 9/10/84 ǂb (hdg.: Gábor, Zsa Zsa)
670 IMDb, May 9, 2008 ǂb (Zsa Zsa Gabor; b. Feb. 6, 1917, Budapest, Austria-Hungary; birth name: Sári Gábor; unclear as to Zsa Zsa's birth date)
Maybe the LC cataloger should just add that essential information and remove the dates from the access points.
Chuck Herrold
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Subject: [PCCLIST] Authority updates and BFM
Zsa Zsa Gabor was laid to rest in the authority file last night. The access point that previously had no dates now has birth and death dates. Why?
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