Re: GEN: Am I confused?

[Josephine Dervan <rderva@infi.net>]

kwilliams_46@HOTMAIL.COM writes:

> myths, legends, poems,
> plays, fairy tales and folk tales are non-fiction. 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.

Way back in Library School (it was called that in the old days) we were
told that the difference between poems, plays, folk tales, fairy tales
AND fiction was that the first group was literature and classified as
non-fiction. Fiction on the other hand was considered recreational and
so it had it's own classification and separate location in public
libraries. I guess it is easier to find and there are usually large
numbers of fiction books.

I will say that I have been in college libraries where fiction books
were classified by a Dewey number. I think it was 813 but I'm not sure.
As I say, it was over 30 years ago.

Jo
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