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To add to Vicky's dilemma re. the 920's, I have another (different) one.

I realize it isn't "proper" format in any category other than
biographies to use the subject's last name as the call # letters (921
EIN for Einstein even though written by someone else) but what about
using that "system" for authors in the 800's?  Or artists in the 700's?
I have multiple shelves of 813.52 or 813.54 for Lit Crit and think it
would be much easier for students if all the Hemingways were 813.54
HEM.  I know that the call # includes the correct letters to find but am
looking for a way for students to find books more easily.  And what
about Lit Crit books about books by an author? (Same question re. the
art books).

Is this just crazy talk?  Will I be burned at the stake as a heretic??

J’aimé L. Foust, Librarian
jfoust@mum.neric.org
Queensbury High School
Queensbury, NY 12804

“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”  B.
F. Skinner

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