Thanks to everyone for their help and suggestions:
After asking my original question I did some title sorting and realized the issue was not quite as problematic as I originally thought. I've gotten good advice on how to deal with "The" or "A" being the first word of the title and I'll be able to improve the searching experience for our users.
Thanks so much,
Marcella Lesher
Professor/Periodicals Librarian
Blume Library
St. Mary’s University
One Camino Santa Maria
San Antonio, TX 78228
Phone: 210-431-2299 ext. 1322
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From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] On Behalf Of Houtkamp, J.H.M.
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 2:36 AM
To: SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Title sorting in AtoZ lists
6. Title sorting in AtoZ lists
In our AtoZ lists both title and 'normalized' title are used.
Normalization means: letter+diacritic is replaced by the letter, and initial, leading article is removed (for Dutch, English, German and French titles)
Anneke Houtkamp
Metadatabeheer
DS&I
UBVU - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Keep it green, read it on the screen
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Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 19:14:35 +0000
From: "Brenda L. Keane" <Brenda.Keane@JWU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Title sorting in AtoZ lists
Hi,
I directed similar questions to our coordinator a few months back. Here is the response I received, with regards to the title 'The Advocate':
When searching "Advocate":
The AtoZ system will search for all titles beginning with Advocate or The Advocate, in this search the word the will be ignored by the search system if it begins the title of the journal.
When searching "The Advocate":
The AtoZ system will search for all titles beginning with The Advocate and will also include any journal that has an alternate title beginning with The Advocate (such as the journal Advocate). Because in this search we are purposely using the word the to begin the journal title our system will not include titles that do not begin with the word the, unless of course there is an alternate title listed that meets these search parameters.
Perhaps listing an alternate title?
From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] On Behalf Of Harper, Cynthia
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 10:42 AM
To: SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG
Subject: Re: [SERIALST] Title sorting in AtoZ lists
List it in both places?
From: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum [mailto:SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG] On Behalf Of Lesher, Marcella
Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 10:03 AM
To: SERIALST@LISTSERV.NASIG.ORG
Subject: [SERIALST] Title sorting in AtoZ lists
Hello Colleagues:
I would like to know how other librarians handle the word "The" in titles sorts on their AtoZ list. One of my colleagues asked about removing the word because of the problem it creates when using the "Begins with" search on the titles in our AtoZ list. I don't necessarily find a problem with it except in cases where "the" has real meaning such as "The American" or "The American Dream" which are two titles in our list of 1788 titles where "The" is the first word.
There's probably an easy answer for this but it's Friday and there's construction in my building! (And no air conditioning)
Thanks,
Marcella Lesher
Professor/Periodicals Librarian
Blume Library
St. Mary's University
One Camino Santa Maria
San Antonio, TX 78228
Phone: 210-431-2299 ext. 1322
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