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     Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:05:41 -0500
     From: "Peggy Becksvoort" <[log in to unmask]>
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When shelving nonfiction, with numbers, I put folklore and fairy tales into
398.2 (or thereabouts). Yes, they are "not true" but according to Dewey
Decimal System, they fall into the 398 section.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dewey_Decimal_classes
If you were to be truly correct about cataloging, your fiction would fall
under literature, or the 800s.
So, it is easy to realize that calling non-fiction "true" and fiction "not
true" is actually incorrect.

Thanks for asking this question - it is one that many people have.

Peggy

Peg Becksvoort, LMS, NBCT
*Maine Association of School Libraries*
Librarian, Falmouth Middle School
52 Woodville Rd
Falmouth, ME 04105
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On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Wendy Boyle <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm still working on organizing our library and I had a shelfing
> question. I have children's books that that are called folklore or
> tales and have dewey numbers on the inside cover. Do you put it in
> childrens' fiction or nonfiction?
> Also on your younger kids books do you label it with an E or a J? I
> have found that when I do an ISBN search with Resourcemate they have
> an E.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Wendy
>


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