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You might remember me worrying about whether we'd put the new Harry Potter in the nonfiction section with plays. Sure enough. A 327-page play in the

Posted by mara Jul 29 '16, 14:37

nonfiction section of the children's room. I guess I should be grateful it's not in my department.

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You have yours already? Amazon said ours won't ship until Aug 3. Library privilege? -- nm - Meg Jul 29, 14:43 4
- megga please - gerald Jul 29, 14:44
- It's in the catalog and holdable, but will be "in processing" until August 3. (52 holds!) -- nm - mara Jul 29, 14:44 2
  - But have you had a sneak read of it already? -- nm - The Roger More Innuendo Jul 29, 15:20
  - Ah, gotcha. Our kids librarian had me pre-order it in the hope it would be here for the event on Sunday. - Meg Jul 29, 14:49
What's the reason for it being in nonfiction? Is it actually a true story? -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 14:40 20
- No, it doesn't have to be true to be nonfiction. Nonfiction simply means it's not a novel or short story. -- nm - mara Jul 29, 14:41 19
  - Really? My understanding was nonfiction is writing based on truth. -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 14:45 17
    - Not necessarily. For instance, folklore, legends and myths can be cataloged as nonfiction. -- nm - mara Jul 29, 14:48 16
      - Plus stuff like ghost hunting, astrology, homeopathy, trickle-down economics... :-) In cases like that, of course, the author is *purporting* it to - mara Jul 29, 14:52 2
        
        astrology is real, yo. -- nm - all the boys love venus in scorpio Jul 29, 16:44
        
        That makes sense. -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 15:03
      - I can see it in those cases because they're based on a perceived truth in the stories. - Krusty Jul 29, 14:52 12
        
        It's totally made up, like most plays. But plays are not novels, so they're put in nonfiction. -- nm - mara Jul 29, 14:54 11
        
        That makes no sense to me. Plays are not really that different than a novel so why the difference? - Krusty Jul 29, 15:00 3
        
        See my last post below. -- nm - mara Jul 29, 15:10
        
        at my store we had ~80 sections - none were called "non-fiction" - mud Jul 29, 15:05 1
        
        Yeah, as much as anything else, libraries are just trying to come up with a single word to call the items with Dewey Decimal numbers. -- nm - mara Jul 29, 15:14
        
        Poetry, too. Edgar Allan Poe didn't actually meet a raven who said "Never more," but it's in nonfiction. -- nm - mara Jul 29, 14:56 6
        
        Wait, wut? -- nm - iSpam Jul 29, 15:09
        
        I feel like it should be on a case by case basis. -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 15:02 4
        
        You know what, I should retract some of this. There's actually a much better way to think of this. The 2 categories of texts shouldn't be fiction and -- (edited) - mara Jul 29, 15:10 3
        
        Got it. I'm sorry for dragging this out but I was genuinely curious. Thanks for the detailed answer. -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 15:16 2
        
        Heh, I was thinking of apologizing to ST, but *I'm* happy to talk about it. It's actually been helpful to me. -- nm - mara Jul 29, 15:17 1
        
        Cool. :-) -- (edited) - Krusty Jul 29, 15:24
  - interesting. -- nm - Epiphany Jul 29, 14:44

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