Re: GEN: Am I confused?

[Wendy Stoll <Wendy40@AOL.COM>]

In a message dated 12/12/01 8:48:30 PM Eastern Standard Time,
kwilliams_46@HOTMAIL.COM writes:


> myths, legends, poems,
> plays, fairy tales and folk tales are non-fiction.  I always thought this
> things were fiction but were shelved with the non-fiction items using Dewey
> decimal numbers.  Am I confused?  I am interested in your response.
>

This is a question that drives me NUTS!!  My clerk gets bothered because I
insist on calling the books filed using Dewey the "numbered books" because
Dewey does NOT equate with non-fiction.  Novels have Dewey numbers, too; we
just don't use them. I thought it was way too confusing to my elementary
children to call these books "non-fiction" at the same time they are learning
the difference between fiction and non-fiction.  I  would have a hard time
using that video...but I imagine I am in the minority.

Wendy Stoll, librarian
Smyrna Elementary School
Louisville, KY                          Wendy40@aol.com

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