mithriltabby: Serene silver tabby (Group Intellect)
Max Kaehn ([personal profile] mithriltabby) wrote in [personal profile] calimac 2011-01-31 09:54 pm (UTC)

I notice you alphabetize names of the form “de X” or “von Y” under X and Y instead of D and V. (I was also surprised to see Ralph Vaughan Williams under V, so I looked it up and discovered that unhyphenated double-barreled surnames exist.) My own habit would be to put “de X” and “von Y” in the surname field of a database and expect them to be sorted by alphabetical order there; would that violate the expectations of a trained librarian? (The library sorting exception I usually remember is that “Mc” goes under “Mac”.)

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