[Publib] when does fiction become literature?

[Victoria Kemp]

I agree with Kevin. Fiction is fiction; if you have all the fiction
broken out in a separate collection, all fiction needs to be there. My
library also has literary criticism, etc., in the literature area.	
HTH	
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!	


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:publib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Okelly
Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 1:08 PM
To: cynthia organ; Publib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Publib] when does fiction become literature?

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
Cc: 
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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