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Originally Posted by burnafterreading
haha! well, teachers aren't always logical. when i speak, i say "The Title Of My Book", not "Title Of My Book, The". i prefer to sort & name my books the same way that i say them - it's more natural and consequently proper (to me) - so invariably i'm changing everything to make them follow the "John Smith - The Title" format.
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And when 40% of your books are filed under A or An or The, you begin to appreciate moving common articles from the start of the title sort if not the title itself.
One horrible example being when a friend of mine was on maternity leave, the person who filled in while she was off screwed up their filing system totally. Over 90% of their customers had names starting with The (The Ministry of Education, The City of North Vancouver, The District of North Vancouver, The Regional District of Nanaimo, The Municipality of Canoe, etc.), so you can imagine the mess when she got back and was trying to look for a file. Admittedly, the filing standard was to use the locale name followed by the type so North Vancouver, The City of would be filed before North Vancouver, The District of and so on instead of just moving the article to end of the sort field.