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I'm sorry, I didn't know LM_NET doesn't accept attachments. I have cut and pasted the list. Hope this helps. I shelve all my videos, kits, DVDs, models, etc. together by Dewey number. I want my teachers to be able to do one stop shopping and see all our nonprint resources together in one spot. My other self, however, is strongly considering shelving items by grade as I am getting tired of teachers taking items that sound interesting and stamping all over another grade's curriculum needs. I have one teacher who is especially thoughtless about this and no amount of talking with her helps. I shelve videotapes, audi tapes, teacher resources, class book sets, and puppets seperately because only the teachers are allowed to check out these items. Hope this helps. It depends on who is using the material. I interfiled the audiocassette books with the regular books. Then students who were using these materials could find them easily. I interfiled teacher resources (kits and videos and computer software) so that those patrons could go to one location to find everything on that topic. Some teachers prefer to have all the videos together because they aren't looking for material to support the curriculum. They're looking for a "video".....just be aware that's what they're looking for. I would shelve your regular collection separate from your professional collection. Then within your professional collection put all formats together. I think it is helpful to teachers to see there is a fabulous book that would go with what she is teaching while reaching for the video she always uses. It works for me! Oh how things never change.... 26 years ago my state department people were absolutely firm about this.... and being a high school, I knew if the videos were put on the regular shelves they would disappear in 3 minutes or less.... ;-) I just ignored them... even if they were right... and I still don't think so.... most of our videos are for the curriculum and the teachers absolutely don't want the students to have seen ahead of time, videos they are going to teach with.... because of course those students are going to be bored because they have seen it before....If the state people had followed up, I would have put the videos out.... but just the video/sound filmstrips holders... not the actual videos them self.... so it would have doubled my work effort in getting them to whomever wanted them... one to the shelf to get the holder and then to get the actual video to go in it. Intershelving was a big push in the 70's and early 80's but although most librarians thought it was a good idea philosophically, they found it rarely worked well in actual practice, with security issues, shelf sizing, etc., thus you rarely see it today. As a library user I would like all format intershelved, but as a librarian I see this as a real pain. The physical size, shape, type of container, etc. make this really hard to keep looking nice. From my experience, while it seems nice at first, it causes problems on the shelves--different formats are different sizes. This sometimes frustrates patrons when the smaller items fall off, etc. Also, makes a lot of work for the librarians. Tried it. Didn't work. I'm not sure why. The audio-visual things began to disappear. At the school I am at we separate material, except paperbacks are shelved with hardbacks. However, about 30 years ago when I was interning for my library endorsement I worked at an elementary school that shelved everything together. Special shelves were built to handle the books and boxes for kits. It worked out great at that level. The school also had a very generous budget and a grant for equipment loans, so a student could check out a filmstrip and viewer for overnight. My budget is such that I don't have enough equipment or software to check out to students and I also do not have shelving that would prevent small items from sliding through to the back. The one plus is that it helped students realize that information comes from all sources. I was at a workshop on Thursday and Friday so am just catching up. For ease of administration, I keep like formats together. Good MARC records in your OPAC will group items with similar subjects together for your patron. Sorry for the inconvenience. Penny Morgan, Librarian Lee Hill Elementary School morganrp@earthlink.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://elann.biglist.com/el-announce/ LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html --------------------------------------------------------------------