Re: Non-fiction Explanation

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@SATURN.PLANET.NET>]

One should not think at the main collection (shelved by Dewey) number
as non-fiction.  But the fiction collection is just that-- a
specialized collection of literature that has been pulled out of
the main collection for the purposes of a different (and some think
easier) shelving system.   The Biography is also seperate  but we do
not say that those books are not non-fiction.   I do not say that
there is no non-fiction, I just say that one does not identify it as
to whether it has a Dewey number or not.
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