[Sca-librarians] "Mc" vs. "Mac"

[Nancy Shapiro]

I think it simply depends on the established policy of wherever you are
alphabetizing.  I remember some weird situation where we were expected to
basically ignore the 'c' or 'ac' and treat the word as 'M' followed by the
next significant letter.:

McDonald
MacKracken
MacAnulty

were filed as if: MAnulty, MDonald, MKracken

Internal consistency is what counts.  However, in these days of WWCD (What
Would the Computer Do), I would think it is more likely to be straight
letter-by-letter, no holds barred.

Nancy who is also Ki-lin

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 1:06 PM, <snspies at aol.com> wrote:

> It's been "a few" years since I last had to alphabetize "Mc"s and "Mac"s in
> a bilbiography, and I was wondering what the current rule is.  Are the "Mc"s
> considered to be "Mac"s, or are they put under "Mc"?  (Frustrating memories
> of high school floating around here ... .)
>
> Nancy
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