Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
More realistically and easier to address, a staff member once called me about the word “Nixxer” in our library’s catalog. It was in a catalog record that correctly referred to Agatha Christie’s book “10 Little Indians “as it was an edition note that told the original title “10 little Nixxers.” The book was later published under an even more sanitize title “And then there were none. “

Since that edition note using offensive language wasn’t really necessary to have in a catalog record, I deleted it and made the staff member happy. But my action did delete a fact. In this case, feelings over facts. Sigh.
The sensitivity readers are currently making another pass at Christie. For instance “native” is replaced by “local” lest readers be harmed by such vicious verbal violence.