[Publib] when does fiction become literature?

[Kevin Okelly]

We don't carry out such a migration. What's in the 800s are critical
studies, poetry, drama, collections of letters, e.g. George Orwell's
letters would be 823.912. Classics (Aeschylus, Homer Virgil) go in the
800s as well.

Dostoevsky, Dickens, Hawthorne, etc, are all in fiction.

Kevin O'Kelly
Reference and Cataloging Librarian
Somerville Public Library
79 Highland Ave.
Somerville, MA 02143
(617)-623-5000


-----Original Message-----
From: cynthia organ <bsblcynthia at yahoo.com>
To: Publib at webjunction.org
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Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 10:41:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Publib] when does fiction become literature?

> At what point do you move fiction books (Sinclair Lewis, James Joyce
> for example) to the 800s, literature?
> 
> Many thanks!
> 
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