Re: GEN: Am I confused?

[Laura Pearle <lpearle@PCS-NYC.ORG>]

At 09:54 PM 12/13/2001 -0500, Josephine Dervan wrote:
>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.

EVERYTHING has a Dewey number, but it's helpful to people if we create
"fake" categories like Biography and Fiction.  I tell my students that part
of that is because if you keep fiction in the 800s they couldn't browse as
easily and they'd have to know where the author was from (Rowling being 823
and Baum being 813).


Laura Pearle
Head Librarian
Gladys Brooks Library
Professional Children's School
lpearle@pcs-nyc.org

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