rara-avis@icomm.ca wrote:
> From:
> You've never been in a library that had Science
Fiction, Mystery,
> Western, Horror, and/or Romance sections?
Ever?
> Never. Never ever. I seem to recall perhaps visiting
one library
> out of state that had mysteries grouped together,
but that was it;
> all other non-juvenile fiction works lumped under
Fiction..
> Otherwise it's always been a clear distinction of
two subsets:
> either Fiction or Non-Fiction. It certainly sounds
like your
> experience with various library systems vastly
outweighs mine, so
> I'll conceed that perhaps my experiences may indeed
be
> the exception and not the rule. My hope is perhaps
someday my
> local library system will follow your lead; I'd much
prefer the
> more brower-friendly seperation/catagorization of
genres.
How very odd. I'm more than a little nonplussed by this. If
you don't mind my asking, where are these libraries? I'm
wondering if this might be a rural-versus-urban
phenomenon.
At the very least I'd think the fans of genre works would
complain. God help me if I put Westlake or Pelecanos or
Lehane alongside, oh, Uris or Robbins. I'd be strung up if I
did that.
jess--of course, this is Texas....
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