1. IME ICC5 Report Working Group 1: Personal Names Working Group Leader: Fiona Bell Working Group Recorder: Henriette Nkunku IME ICC5 August 15, 2007

2. Working Group 1 Members WG1 Leader: Fiona Bell WG1 Recorder: Henriette Nkunku Members: Santie Engelbrecht Dudu Dlamini Louette Visser Mamadou Sene

3. Statement of International Cataloguing Principles Recommendations - 7.1.2 change Indispensable access points into Essential access points The date of publication should stay in 7.1.3 Additional access points Reasons - date is not used as an access point in a index - date is not used on its own as an access point

4. 5.2.1. The wording conventions of the country require - that there are established conventions - cataloguers’ knowledge for conventions when dealing with foreign authors. e.g. Delete the apostrophe for Senegalese names as N’Diaye ---> Ndiaye M’Baye ---> Mbaye But in Kenya, for example: Ngugi Wa Thiong’o ---> Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

5. Glossary Recommendations Definition for Person to be changed to the following: an individual or a persona established or adopted by an individual or two or more individuals acting as one person Add to the glossary - Uncontrolled access point (5.1) and see also from Access point - Normalized form see Authorized heading (5.1) - Variant forms (5.1) and see from Reference to Variant forms - Essential/Indispensable access point (7.1.2) and see also from Access point - Additional access point (7.1.3) and see also from Access point - Conventional title see also Uniform title or equivalent.

6. WG1 Other Suggestions To redynamise the ASCOBIC Language code Names of person in Africa - try to distinguish as well as possible - distinguishing of the names by using the birth date and death date ;it is the easiest manner to distinguish the person. The qualification as the profession can change