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Library question
- Thread starter Francine
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Our library does not have any religious texts in it at all (except Buddhist) it is necessary to go to the department of philosophy and religion if you would like to see one. We only have one Bible and in the 3 years I have worked here I don't recall anyone looking at it.
Non-fiction, in Colorado Springs. Only books on evolution go on the fiction shelves in this town.
Oh dear.
rojse
RF Addict
Is that a joke, or actually a serious comment? Hearing stuff like that, I can't tell, unless you use smileys.
Let's just say: it's Sunstone.
rojse
RF Addict
Non-fiction.
In the Dewey Decimal Classification system, which would most likely be what your library has, it would be under 220 - The Bible. Various parts of the bible are classified within 220 to 229. Books that discuss various parts of the bible and the Catholic faith are categorised uner numbers from 230 to 280.
It's not quite as bad as I stated. It's just close to being that bad.
Our libraries have a religious section, they have The Bible, The Qur'an, and other religions there as well. They also have books written about religion and religious people. And they are in non-fiction.
kai
ragamuffin
wow! respect there !
I'm sitting in the main office today where we keep all the books because the internet in my office isn't working so I thought I would take a look exactly how everything is placed just to give you the idea how it is done in a government Buddhist school. It appears we have 3 Christian texts in our entire collection and they are all in English which is probably why no one has any interest. The Bible we have is called "The Family Bible" and it is placed between "A 20 year long anti-Japanese revolution under the red Sunrays" and Charles Dickens "Great Expectations" Another book we have is "Christianity and government in Russia and the Soviet Union" placed between a Sand skirt dictionary and a Japanese to English dictionary (I think these books are not used at all so they are mixed in the last book case and they look older than me). And the last one is The New Testament between a book about Western ethics and Oxford word finder, I think these books have been abandoned as well.
kiwimac
Brother Napalm of God's Love
I was about to say that it is normally in the 200s in libraries using DDC. In various Colon Classification schemes, it differs from scheme to scheme, In the UDC it's in the 2's ; The Library of Congress classifies Bibles under B: Philosophy, Psychology, and Religion. Bliss Cataloging places it in P: Religion, Occult, Morals and ethics.
BTW, this is an example of why you should NEVER ask this question of a librarian.
BTW, this is an example of why you should NEVER ask this question of a librarian.
rojse
RF Addict
I would suggest they would be out of place.
If it is in a library, on the spine of the book, there should be a number, and three letters (assuming you have the dewey cataloging system there). The ordering of the books is by the number, and when this is identical, the letters.
If this is in place, I would suggest that the librarians need to recatalog it, because bibles do not go next to dictionaries, no matter how many people try to insist it is the single important reference material.
Either way, it's poor positioning might explain why it is borrowed out so little.
Dr. Nosophoros
Active Member
I have no concern for it but I do donate a large part of my collecting to local ones after I read them, I have been offered a plaque but I have no use for such things or really even care for them, my sole reason for the donations to local underfunded libraries is a hope that someone, somewhere might get something useful out of what I have given. If not, then they don't - but I can still check them out for free while someones else dusts them periodically.
fullyveiled muslimah
Evil incarnate!
In these libraries around here, if the building is small and without a religious section, they will put all religious texts next to the reference books.
The OP has me wondering-- Does anyone go to a library that puts religious writings in the fictions section? I mean, I have never seen that. 