{"id":2191,"date":"2007-12-14T21:39:12","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T02:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=444"},"modified":"2007-12-14T21:39:12","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T02:39:12","slug":"the-definite-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/the-definite-article.html","title":{"rendered":"The Definite Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theindexer.org\/files\/22-3\/22-3_119.pdf\">The Definite Article : Acknowledging &#8216;The&#8217; in Index Entries<\/a> (pdf) is this years&#8217; winner of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ignobel.com\/ig\/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2007\">IgNoble Prize<\/a> in Literature.  Note that the banner of their site includes the phrase &#8220;Research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK&#8221;, and note that the winning essay fills that criterion well.<\/p>\n<p>By the bye, how does anyone find out if a library has any music by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_The\">The The<\/a> via an OPAC&#8230; simply wade through titles between &#8220;thazzz&#8221; and &#8220;thea&#8221;???  An Inter-Library Loan staff member pointed that out to me years ago, and it still highlights one of the challenges of significant articles in titles.<\/p>\n<p>found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisnews.org\/node\/28523\">LISNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Definite Article : Acknowledging &#8216;The&#8217; in Index Entries (pdf) is this years&#8217; winner of the IgNoble Prize in Literature. Note that the banner of their site includes the phrase &#8220;Research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK&#8221;, and note &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/14\/the-definite-article.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2922,2938,2943,2965],"tags":[4683],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cataloging","category-humor","category-libraries","category-search","tag-inter-library-loan-staff-member"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-zl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}