Dear all,
When I’ve done “Dewey Lessons” (hopefully in not too boring a way) with my
high school students, I always tell them that they are learning a Life
Skill. What they are learning will enable them to go into any “proper”
library in the world and find the book they want/need. It will also help
them find information on the Internet. (I was thinking long-term here, but
maybe it’s more of a professional fantasy? Who knows.)
A few times I’ve had kids point out that book stores don’t shelve by Dewey …
the answer I give is along the lines that retail outlets “want you to *buy*
particular products, but libraries are there to give you *free* information
and help you find the books that YOU want to read”. Seems to work.
Although I often think how much simpler school library life would be if we
shelved by cover color (all the red books together, all the blue ones, etc).
Amanda Credaro
Editor: Warrior Librarian Weekly
http://www.warriorlibrarian.com
Author: Biblia’s Guide to Warrior Librarianship
http://warriorlibrarian.com/buythebook.html
Day Job: Project Officer – Center for Learning Innovation, OTEN
E-mail: amanda.credaro@det.nsw.edu.au (work)
abcredaro@ozemail.com.au (home)
>Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:37:18 -0500
>From: sbrisco <sbrisco021@CHARTER.NET>
>Subject: Re: Target: Fiction Shelving in High School
>I wrote an article in Library Media Connection in
>January about shelving issues (Dewey or Dalton: An
>Investigation of the Lure of the Bookstore by
>Shonda Brisco. LMC, v. 22, n4, January 2004). The article
>(and my experiences) relate to not only the problems of
>locating materials in public libraries or bookstores when
>each group is divided by a (possible subjective) genre but
>also the problems that students will have when they reach
>the college level.
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