We have all our nonfiction together (K-5) but the easy nonfiction has red
tape on the spine. We try to get younger kids to limit themselves to red
tape books, and it seems to work pretty well.
--
Kay Weisman, Librarian
Willowbrook School
2500 Happy Hollow Road
Glenview, Illinois 60025
kweisman@district30.k12.il.us
(847) 400-8832
on 4/3/03 7:15 AM, Anne Timbs at timbsa@K12TN.NET wrote:
> I shelve all of my nonfiction together E and upper levels. However, I have
> a fiction section and an E section. I am in a K-6 school. Would it be
> easier to shelve the E nonfiction separately too? This is just my second
> year as a librarian so I am still learning a lot. I find that most of the
> time those looking for E nonfiction are teachers who want to use the books
> for a unit in their classrooms, and some upper grades students who are on a
> lower reading level, but like the nonfiction books. I had never thought of
> separating them, but maybe I should.
>
> Anne Timbs
> Roan Creek Elementary Library Media Specialist
> Mountain City, TN
> timbsa@k12tn.net
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phyllis Roche" <pmroche@COMCAST.NET>
> To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
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>
>> What happens when these students go to the next level? Is that library
>> arranged the same way? If not then it will be like they never used a
>> library before and that librarian will have to unteach what you taught
>> and then reteach universally accepted library structure.
>> It must be very hard to shelve the books unless you have them marked as
>> to where they go. If not then no one can help to shelve the books.
>> I have all of the Easy Fiction arranged in ABC order by author's last
>> name. I look it up for the kids on the computer and then tell them the
>> last name and what letter to look for. They don't seem to have a
>> problem.
>> I do have a display with all of the Caldecott winners but the rest of
>> the books are in the normal order.
>> I have the non-fiction books divided into 2 groups: Non-Fiction and E
>> Non-Fiction. Works perfectly.
>> Phyllis Roche
>> R.T. Cream K-8 Media Center
>> Camden, NJ
>> http://www.camden.k12.nj.us/S/Cream/page4.html
>> pmroche@comcast.net
>>
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