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My district is also using AR Enterprise or RenPlace. However, we haven't dealt with these issues. I'm wondering if your Enterprise purchase includes the availability of ALL quizzes. This can be purchase for a per student fee annually. Our district did not do this because 1) each school already had 1000's of quizzes and a collection to support those and 2) uncertainty of the ability to continue to fund annual fees per student for ALL quizzes. So, now I wonder if you question comes from this purchase of all quizzes. Are you planning to always make a distinction between quizzes your school has purchased and the ALL available options? If this is the case... it boggles my mind. How can you maintain this separately? Wow! I remember a summer listserv conversation about AR shelving, and the consensus was to shelve books according to Dewey. I personally advocate mixing AR and non-AR together also. I am fortunate that my fiction section and almost all of my Bio section are 100% AR. I accept the fact that never will my Easy and Non-fiction be 100% AR, so I am at peace with this shelving issue. Many libraries provide access to particular books in reading level order for quick selection. It comes down to what works in your world. Good luck with the Enterprise quizzes. Keep us posted.Lisa Hunt, NBCTLibrary Media SpecialistMoore, OK--- On Tue 10/31, Janice Askew < jma0525@EARTHLINK.NET > wrote:From: Janice Askew [mailto: jma0525@EARTHLINK.NET]To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDUDate: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:17:33 -0500Subject: AR Enterprise Users OnlyHi folks,I've asked once this before, but how are you organizing your libraries using AR Enterprise?We have our books organized by AR Levels for books in which we purchased quizzes. However, as children are checking out books in our general (non-AR) collection, I am placing stickers on the spine indicating the level. I am also writing BL, Pts, and Quiz # on the first leaf of the book since I don't have the funds to buy 4,000 stickers to label them.I have parents helping me shelve books. We are confused as to where to shelve books that AR quizzes available using Enterprise. Should we continue to shelve them with the general collection? Should we include them with our purchased quiz books?Another dilemma:My media center received significant water damage due to Ernesto. I lost my wall bookshelves due to mold and mildew -- Health Dept. mandated it.. They will arrive around the middle of January. I still have books available for checkout on my double-sided bookshelves. I know that I will have to pack up everything anyway. So, I'm wondering: Why not go ahead and rearrange the media center books if need be?I have 6 double sided shelves. I'm thinking of assigning one shelf per grade level (k-5) for fiction books. For grades K-3, I think my nonfiction would have to be on one side and the fiction on the other. For my nonfiction books in grades 3-5, I can place them on the wall shelves interspersed with the books that are not AR. The AR books will be detectable by their AR labels.What should I do with my fiction books that don't have AR quizzes? Should I have separate shelving for them?Can you picture what I'm thinking?The kids are loving having Enterprise, but it is an organizational nightmare! I have parents checking books and labeling them for me. They have already started shelving the books in the leveled sections with books that have purchased quizzes. I didn't know they were doing that until yesterday. When I looked, several books were not in their original places in the general collection (non-AR).Do you have suggestions?What problems/solutions are you all having with Enterprise?By the way, my new floor will be installed during our Winter Break -- I hope! Any words of wisdom would be appreciated.Janice AskewMedia CoordinatorT. S. 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