Re: GEN: Am I confused?

[librarysciences <librarysciences@BELLAONLINE.COM>]

I was just doing a lesson on this section of the library with my second
graders.  I show examples and then ask if the stories are true.  I always
get a resounding "no."  I then explain that we keep them with the
non-fiction books because they tell us about the stories that are told in
different countries and so tell us something about the people living in
those countries.
A crazy approach?  Way off base?

Pace e Bene (Peace and Blessings),
Paula S.W. Laurita, MLIS
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Wendy Stoll" <Wendy40@AOL.COM>
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Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: GEN: Am I confused?


> 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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