Genre-fying the School Library

Some Sports books

I've been talking to my twitter PLN and after much discussion, I've decided to re-organize the school library. Again.

As always, my goal is to make the library a space students and staff not only want to visit, but want to borrow materials from. I also want those materials to be as accessible as possible.

Last year we moved all the series books to one area in the library. I also order those books separately so that they have my special SER prefix instead of FIC.

This year I'm putting all the fiction, and some of the non-fiction, into genres! This will be similar to what you would you find in a bookstore but based on past student interactions.

We get lots of requests for mysteries, romance, sports, action, horror, and just general good books! We are keeping our good books table but will try to highlight a different genre each month!!

Since I started this over summer with very little help (thanks Jess!) there is still a lot of work to be done! Especially since I'm slow at this stuff - it took me a long time to decide on the genres then decide where things might go! I had Jess measure the shelf space too because that doesn't exist anywhere! No worries though, the library will still open in time! I'll just have the students help me along the way!

Not even 1/2 the books

Once upon a SER section