GENERAL
ALA Rules for Filing Catalog Cards. 2nd ed. Chicago: American Library Association, 1968.
Booth, Pat F. "Alphabetical Order (revised)," Library World 86/1026 (Dec.1985):227-29.
Brackney, Michael. "On Sorting Index Headings: Quandaries and Queries," Key Words 3/5 (Nov.1995):1,24,25.
Cousins, Garry. "Logical Order," a letter to the editor. Indexer 20/1 (April, 1996):31.
Dahlberg, Wolfgang. "The Alphabet; Pattern, History, and Perspective of the Earliest Classification System," International Classification 11/1 (1984):13-20.
International Standards Organization. Bibliographic Filing Principles. ISO Publication 7154. Geneva: ISO, 1983.
Katzner, Kenneth. The Languages of the World. 2nd, revised ed. London: Routledge, 1986.
Kohl, Ernst. International Bibliographic Filing Principles and Rules. S.n., 1983.
Library of Congress Subject Headings. 19th ed. "Filing arrangement," pp. xvi-xvii. Washington: Library of Congress, 1996.
Manual of Foreign Languages. 4th ed., revised and enlarged. New York: Central Book Co., 1959.
National Information Standards Organization [of the United States]. Alphabetical Arrangement of Letters and the Sorting of Numerals and Other Symbols. In preparation. Open review period scheduled July through October, 1996. Oxon Hill, Maryland: NISO Press.
Rather, John Carson and Susan C. Biebel. Library of Congress Filing Rules. Washington: Library of Congress, 1980.
Simsova, Sylvia. "Coping with Foreign and Non-Standard Characters," Small Computers in Libraries International 1998, pp.13-15. London: Meckler, 1988.
Wellisch, Hans H. "The ALA Filing Rules," Journal of the American Society for Information Science 34/5 (Sept.1983):313-30.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Macropaedia 15th ed. "Writing," 29:1025- 76. 15th ed. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1992.
SELECTED DICTIONARY PREFACES
American Indian Languages
Aoki, Haruo. "Spelling and Order of Letters," p. xi of Nez Perce Dictionary. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Callaghan, Catherine A. "Arrangement of Alphabet and Phonetic Key," p. 11 of Plains Miwok Dictionary. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
Sequoyah. Cherokee alphabet. 1 page. New Echota, Ga.?: s.n., 1828?. A copy is in the Princeton University rare books collection.
Young, Robert W. and William Morgan. "Alphabetic Order," p. x of The Navajo Language. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987.
Basque Aulestia, Gorka. "The Basque Alphabet," pp. a19-a20 of Basque- English Dictionary. Reno and Las Vegas: University of Neveada Press, 1989.
Hawaiian Andrews, Lorrin. A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language. 1865. Reprint ed. Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle, 1974.
Bukui, Mary Kawena and Samuel H. Elbert. "Arrangement of the Dictionary," p. xxxv of Hawaiian Dictionary. 3rd ed. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1971.
Scandanavian Cleasley, Richard. "The Alphabet," p. xv of An Icelandic-English Dictionary. Subsequently revised, enlarged, and completed by Gudbrand Vigfusson. 2nd ed. with supplement by Sir William A. Craigie. 1870. 2nd ed: 1957. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Slovak Konus, Josef J. "The Slovak Alphabet," p. 1661 of Slovensko- Anglicky Frazeologicky Slovnik. Passaic, New Jersey: Slovak Catholic School, 1969.
Welsh Evans, H. Meurig and W.O. Thomas. "Hints on Pronunciation of Welsh, pp. xiv-xvi of Y Geireaidur Newydd: The New Welsh Dictionary. Llandedie: Davies, 1953.