SQL code to create a separate title column for sorting that omits title-initial articles ('a', 'an', 'the') adapted from a Stack Overflow comment posted by user GDP.
I started learning how to concatenate the same field accross multiple rows of data from a Stack Overflow comment posted by user che.
I learned how to alias table joins in order to join the same table (in my case `person`, which could refer to an author, editor, translator, or artist) from a Stack Overflow comment posted by user András Ottó.
PHP
Code to separate library database results across multiple pages was adapted from the My Programming Tutorials tutorial Create Pagination with PHP and MySQL.