MMhummm roland has arrived :D
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MMhummm roland has arrived :D
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RUN AWAY! Rolandkun is here!!!!
Roland is such a loser!
:( i am not
just joking! you know that i love you!
NIGHTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!
Why can't I find anything in the library? Why are there so many different sections? How was I suppossed to know my library has a "High School Reading" section?
welll lets see do you know what band of library you have?
wait this is an american library isnt it...well the theory is the more you break it down the easier it is to find things (rubbish if you ask me but Ive yet to get high enough to change things).
Now gerally speaking your going to have a classics/ general fiction/ crime/ children/ young adult and maybe a hstorical fiction not to mention romance and westerns area. oh and scifi/fantasy
The idea liek I said id to make things easier personally I always say as the library assistangt its what we are there for. well one of the reasons, you might try looking on the tinternet to see if your library has 'gone digital'.
Otherwise your not really expected to know these things you learn as you go on course its agony when they start to change things but take an hour or so every year to just wonder round see what manic new sections have popped up... I used to do it every few months but then our library isnt very big:D
of course you might just have a nasty library we have one of those near us and its not really nasty I guess except they have those horrible rotating shelves where they just pile anything and everything on and it makes no sense at all.
A highschool reading section?:confused: really?
Not really so rare as you might expect depend son the proximity of the closest highschool and the state of their library or a case of combined fundings from multiple schools in the area for one good book centre.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niamh
I don't know why they don't lump everything in one big alphabetical category.
Ok so I did go back and look at the database and it does list my book in the high school section. but still it's counterintuitive especially since every other book by that author is in the general fiction section.
What's astounding to me is that in this day and age bookstores would still have a separate section for African-American literature. Trips me up every time....Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
Actually had to design somthing for coursework book website and we got into a tiff about weather African american/black british and GLB books ( fiction and nonfiction) should be sepreated from the rest or not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Basil
I wonder how people know, I mean for a lesser known author with out a picture in the back? Does the publisher tell you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
I could understand nonfiction falling into the category of "black studies": writers like W.E.B. Dubois, Albert Murray, etc. But why in the world should the work of Toni Morrison be literally segregated away from general fiction?
because apparantly it deals with 'black' issues, its somthing I cant get my head around personally but I dont understand alot of things and if its what people like *shurg* who am I to argue....although if anyone ever came into a library where I worked and asked me where the 'black' section was Id get very very annoyed. But then again luckely for me public libraries cant divide into those kinds of sections by law anyway.
And paya its about the themes rather than the author.
Your library must have a website? If you can reserve books through their website, your books will be waiting for you, nicely packed, anytime you go to the library! There is a small fee for that service here (50p) but it saves lots of hassle and at least the money goes to the library!Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
You mean regardless of the author's racial background?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
well there are those who would argue that no 'white' person could ever write a 'black' book but in theory yes regardless of racial backgroud/ sexual orientation if we are talking about GLB literature for example is it maurice? by forester ...oh wait google that hummm well I cant think of one oh I know the works of Wilde wouldnt fall under that category because they dont fit as it were.
Night, take a deep breath and start from the beginning, please? :)
You are saying you can find non-black authors in African-American section? Because the books are grouped according to their subject matter rather than the origin of the author?
Correct, in theory but in practise its rare becasue of the objections to the possibility of someone who is non black being able to relate to the situation accuratly and realistically. In the end whatever the policy it tends to go back to the orignal catalogers interpritation of the field.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
huh. interesting.