I was trying to figure out if I had written about this before . I even did a search but did not come up with anything so I am not sure if I am repeating or not. Maybe someone will let me know if I did??
In both our Middle and High school, the fiction books are arranged my genres and then in alphabetical order. When I first got there , I said to myself that It would never work and I would have to change it back to regular arrangement.
But now I am sort of glad that we did not. Each genre has a different color label that goes over the call number , signifying the genre. (example purple for Historical fiction) What this does is that when a student knows he or she prefers science fiction, fantasy , or sports books, they can go right to that section to look for another book to read. They don't have to go the card catalog ( on line) to get books in the same genre, This also makes it easy for the library staff to recommend other titles in say the same genre or series
What we did also was assign another prefix to the call letters. So for a Historical fiction book, the call letters look like this in the on line catalog HF_Fic And. So if students find it on the catalog , they know where to look.
In both our Middle and High school, the fiction books are arranged my genres and then in alphabetical order. When I first got there , I said to myself that It would never work and I would have to change it back to regular arrangement.
But now I am sort of glad that we did not. Each genre has a different color label that goes over the call number , signifying the genre. (example purple for Historical fiction) What this does is that when a student knows he or she prefers science fiction, fantasy , or sports books, they can go right to that section to look for another book to read. They don't have to go the card catalog ( on line) to get books in the same genre, This also makes it easy for the library staff to recommend other titles in say the same genre or series
What we did also was assign another prefix to the call letters. So for a Historical fiction book, the call letters look like this in the on line catalog HF_Fic And. So if students find it on the catalog , they know where to look.
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