British or American Spellings?

[Cindy C.]

Eileen:

> Sorry to bug you all again, but if there's a difference between
> British and American spellings, which should we go with in our
> cataloguing? 

Well, I was thinking that we needn't be consistent on that, based on 
my understanding of how we'll use the catalogues.  

My understanding is that when we are finished, we'll have these 
giant tables/spreadsheets.  So let's say I'm writing the Harry FAQ 
and I have been charged with writing something about his eyes.  I 
would sit and think up logical key words, and then I'd flip through 
the list of key words to see if I missed anything.  

Then I'd sort the spreadsheet by column alphabetically.  The whole 
thing would re-arrange alphabetically, with Avery at the top and 
Yeti at the bottom.  "Colour" and "color" would be right next to 
each other, as would "honor" and "honour" and "math" and "maths."

So that's a long way of saying I think the editor will have the 
burden of finding the appropriate key words, we've made this pretty 
easy by making sure we all use fairly consistent terminology, but I 
don't think we have to be much more precise than that at this point 
on the British/American thing because most differences are minor.

Does this sound right?  Do I understand how the sorting function 
works, O Tech Types?

Cindy -- who can't wait to catalogue Dicey's post to the list that 
was in Spanish