Re: GEN: Am I confused?

[Dan Robinson <dlrbnsn2@eclipse.net>]

I haven't gotten the original yet... but if you go into the archives,
you'll find the same query and answers many times over.

And how do you find the archives? Just scroll all the way to the
bottom of the message.

Dan Robinson
HW Wilson Company
Bronx, NY
drobinson@hwwilson.com

On 13 Dec 01, at 21:31, Wendy Stoll wrote:

> 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.
>
>

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