KDAC
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{Assuming one of your ears hasn't fallen off...} Shortest answer possible: Since you have an informal, personal collection that is not being stored for academic/archival purposes (e.g. the Library of Congress/major university research library), the standard method of alphabetization would place numerical titles first and all remaining titles sorted by the first initial of the first word (i.e. "R" in "Rob Base"), with the range of each letter ranging from "letter/alphanumerical character a - letter/alphanumerical character z." And, as you stated you already know, the article "the" would be truncated during alphabetization so as to conform to the order of the alphabet.
Less formal explanation/source:
https://clericalchick.wordpress.com...cal-filing-rules-and-here-are-some-rules-too/
If a person’s name/(pseudonym) is part of the title, use the first letter of the first name
Bob Anders Corporation would be filed under B, not A. It’s part of the title. When someone refers to this company, they’ll say “Bob Anders Corporation,” or maybe just “Bob Anders.”
If you’re filing by the actual person’s name instead of a company/(psuedonum), most systems will do it by the last name. So the header would look like this: Anders, Bob. Then he would go under A. Name-based files would look like this:
- Acton, Catherine
- Anders, Bob
- Arrrrggghh, The Boss
