Cataloging Question

["Luis R. Ramos" <Flyer13@AOL.COM>]

I am not thinking straight these days for some reason, and I am not an experienced 
cataloger.

Those of you with cataloging experience, the other day I was reviewing some 
cataloging done under my school's previous librarians.

I saw the books "Hucleberry Finn" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer."

Part of the subjects assigned were "Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious 
character)--Fiction" and "Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character)--Fiction." I realized 
I had followed similar on other fiction stories.

Isn't it obvious that if a subject states ". . . (Fictitious character)" it should 
be fiction, thus no need to add the "Fiction" to it? Or would you still use it to 
differentiate among several types of materials, let's say, a videocassette on Tom 
Sawyer may say "Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character)--video recordings" and use 
"Sawyer, Tom (Fictitious character)--Fiction" for "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"?

What are your practices on this?

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Thank you very much and take care,

Luis R. Ramos, Librarian
ACORN Community HS
Brooklyn NY
flyer13@aol.com

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