[aisle] Poetry classification

[Brooke Fleuette]

I'm so glad you asked this question--I have had students visit the library
to check out a nonfiction book for class recently and then get upset when I
explain that although poetry is in the 800s literature section, it is
technically not nonfiction in the sense that their teacher is wanting them
to check out.  I have offered to meet with the class as a whole and explain
a bit more about the nonfiction classifications, but the teacher is not
interested in this and would rather send the students up individually.  I
have been debating pulling poetry and drama and making them a separate
section, but that doesn't seem right either.  Has anyone else had issues
with this? What would you do in this situation?  I like the idea of making
all the poetry 811, as some have suggested here.

Brooke Fleuette
Mercer County High School Library

On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 10:13 AM Lala Lala via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> We have 3 different Dewey Decimal classifications for our Poetry section.
>
> I'd like to consolidate.
>
> What do you all do?
>
>
> Thank you!
> Lori
>
> --
> Lori McGreal
>
>
> MAILMAN_MIMEDEFANG
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Brooke Fleuette
Mercer County High School Library

Currently reading : * Defy the Night* by Brigid Kemmerer
Currently listening to: *All My Rage* by Sabaa Tahir
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