Re: Shelving animals together

[Dan Robinson / Indexing Services <drobinson@INFO.HWWILSON.COM>]

I have a feeling that folktales and fiction and story collections
about animals also ended up with the nonfiction. At least that was
the impression I got from the posting. I also had 'helpful elves'
when I was running a school library.

Dan Robinson
Indexing Services
H.W. Wilson Company
Bronx, NY
drobinson@hwwilson.com

On 26 Nov 97 at 13:18, linda greengrass wrote:

> Wait a minute - I thought the beauty of Dewey was that like animals
> appear together on the shelves - 599.5 is where all of the whale and
> other sea mammal books turn up in my library, and 559.6 is where the
> elephants congregate. Linda
>
> Linda Greengrass, Interim Director
> Bank Street College Library
> 610 West 112th St.
> New York, NY 10025
> lindag@bnkst.edu
>
> >>> Phyllis Ray <Phyl424@AOL.COM> 11/25 5:21 PM >>>
> On the subject of shelving by the animal and not by the Dewey
> number, some elves in our library decided to alphabetize the state
> books.  Weekly we would find all the sets of state books beautifully
> reorganized in alphabetical order and I'd silently scream.  Whoever
> it was has not reappeared this year so far!
>
>
>
>
>

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