Ministry of Putting Things On Top of Other Things

[drwex]

OK, not quite. They call it the Ministry of Reshelving and if I hadn't worked in a bookstore I'd be tempted to help them.

http://avantgame.blogspot.com/2005/08/ministry-of-reshelving.html

Political statements are all well and good but please don't make the serfs' lives harder with them.
(props to sebastian_tombs, who gakked it from ca_snowflake)

Comments

[caulay.livejournal.com]

Mac* after Mc*

Again, policy. "Mac" and "Mc" are, under some filing schemes, the same prefix on a name and are all filed as though they were spelled out as "Mac". This was the standard used by my hometown library and, as a result, the one I use myself. Therefore, MacArthur is followed by McAuley which is followed by MacCaffrey.

And then there is whether you file "van Vogt" under "van" or "Vogt". Not much difference there, but there's also "van Scyoc". And if you decide on using "Vogt" and "Scyoc", where do you file "de Lint"? Under "de" or "Lint"? Or "del Rey"? There are cans of worms that should never be opened.

But I agree that Ti* before Th* is wrong.

[asciikitty.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember the Mc*/ Mac* thing being weird at a bookstore I was a regular customer at I think. And the de [whatever] last names and the van [whatever] and von [whatever] and... yeah. It gets messy.

my uncle is a von [lastname] and as far as I know, he's just completely dropped the 'von' bit, to make everyone's life easier.