to expect my school 'library' to have a non fiction section ?

[littleoldme]

I wanted to take my year 7 group to do some research. Our library has a reasonable amount of fiction but no non fiction. Our Head seems to think the web is sufficient for this stuff. I think it's quite sad.

Bloomin' heck.

That is pretty bad.

What does your school librarian make of it?

I took DC 9 to the library an he had no idea what fiction or non fiction meant or even how books were sorted (as in by surname). Dont they teach this in schools anymore??

That's terrible.

Our librarian works really hard to get what books he can but he's employed to manage to IT. There's lots of grants and stuff around for computers at the mo . It seems that books have gone out of fashion.

There's a myth floating around that you can get all the factual information you need from the internet.

That is dreadful. Both schools (secondary) I worked at, plus the one I went to had proper big libraries split into various sections, with probably more non-fiction than fiction.

DD's primary school has a small library (pone ininfants, one in juniors). Both have plenty of non-fiction, again diviided into categories, alongside their fiction books.

beanieb, I think that myth started on the internet.

no, yanbu.