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Cataloging @ UWCSEA East: Nonfiction cataloging

Required elements

Local SH: Nonfiction
Local SH: Broad term relating to Dewey hundreds

Possible elements

  • Narrative nonfiction or Creative nonfiction? Topical or Local SH?
    This genre tag is used for nonficiton books that employ literary techniques to tell a story. The book must be as complusively readable as a fiction book, not just conveying factual information. Examples; In Cold Blood, Seabiscuit, The Immortal Life of Henrieetta Lacks, The Devil in the White City, Into the Wild.
  • Young Readers' Editions as a Local Subject Heading; also add it to the resource list called Young Readers Editions.

Broad term subject headings by Dewey

Or is this better as a google spreadsheet linked to from this box?

6xx
Technology

9xx
History