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From: Hilary Crew <hscrew_at_msn.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:36:01 -0400
Ginny, Dewey DC still reflects, unfortunately, the way things were regarded in the 19th century. But. in the Dewey schedules all literature is actually given a class number so that all fiction, poetry, short story collections etc. are placed in the 800 class with the option of treating fiction how we usually treat fiction in most libraries today. Dewey so organized the schedules so that literary criticism and fiction were classed together--and also used class numbers that equated the treatment of different languages in the 400 class (French grammar etc) with the literature DDC for different literatures so that 420 was allotted to English grammar and 820 to English lit. Folkore was considered a special study and research area. I agree that DDC could do with a shake-up in this area. There is a lot of lit. in the info. sciences about doing without Dewey and using other categories and concepts on how to organize and catalog materials for children. Kids Catalog was an outgrowth of some of this. Hilary hscrew_at_msn. com
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From: Ginny Moore Kruse To: Debbie Reese Cc: ccbc-net digest recipients Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:32 AM Subject:
Not Nonfiction
What a terrific discussion!
Before the topic changes, I'll note that somewhere along the way I noticed fleeting references to Poetry and to Folklore. The inclusion of these two literary forms in the Dewey Decimal System's "nonfiction" category has always confused kids. It also confuses most teaching about "nonfiction" in which all DDS nonfiction is included. Most of the messages on this topic haven't addressed Poetry or Folklore specifically, but I want to point out that in my opinion neither one really has a place in the topic of nonfiction.
Cordially, Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse_at_wisc.edu
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:36:01 -0400
Ginny, Dewey DC still reflects, unfortunately, the way things were regarded in the 19th century. But. in the Dewey schedules all literature is actually given a class number so that all fiction, poetry, short story collections etc. are placed in the 800 class with the option of treating fiction how we usually treat fiction in most libraries today. Dewey so organized the schedules so that literary criticism and fiction were classed together--and also used class numbers that equated the treatment of different languages in the 400 class (French grammar etc) with the literature DDC for different literatures so that 420 was allotted to English grammar and 820 to English lit. Folkore was considered a special study and research area. I agree that DDC could do with a shake-up in this area. There is a lot of lit. in the info. sciences about doing without Dewey and using other categories and concepts on how to organize and catalog materials for children. Kids Catalog was an outgrowth of some of this. Hilary hscrew_at_msn. com
----- Original Message -----
From: Ginny Moore Kruse To: Debbie Reese Cc: ccbc-net digest recipients Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:32 AM Subject:
Not Nonfiction
What a terrific discussion!
Before the topic changes, I'll note that somewhere along the way I noticed fleeting references to Poetry and to Folklore. The inclusion of these two literary forms in the Dewey Decimal System's "nonfiction" category has always confused kids. It also confuses most teaching about "nonfiction" in which all DDS nonfiction is included. Most of the messages on this topic haven't addressed Poetry or Folklore specifically, but I want to point out that in my opinion neither one really has a place in the topic of nonfiction.
Cordially, Ginny
Ginny Moore Kruse gmkruse_at_wisc.edu
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