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When I changed schools at Christmas I discovered that the previous teacher-librarian had catalogued every soft cover book in the collection with Pb, whether the title was a picture book, novel or nonfiction. To make matters worse soft cover picture books were in piles by title and the soft cover nonfiction were in different locations around the library. I couldn't find anything and was having nightmares in January. I spent the last six months cataloging all these books and rearranging the collection. Books had been shelved across the walls instead of up and down in sections so that was a major job too. Thank goodness for a couple of wonderful parent volunteers. The collection contains a number of very skinny nonfiction books that the Kindergarten and grade one students were use to signing out. I catalogued these books, but decided to keep them in a plastic basket in the nonfiction section. To identify these titles when I did a subject search for a unit I put a * in front of the Dewey Decimal number in the item record. I'm using the Alexandria system and it was very easy to add this with one of the utilities. I didn't even need to go into each item record to make this change. I have put series labels on the spines of the books in the popular sets and they are located on a separate spinner. With this discussion on series placement I'm thinking it would be easy to add a prefix to the call number of these books too and the students could easily see the location when they are using the Alexandria system to search for books. S or Ser could easily be added to the front of the call number. This would even work for books in flower boxes. : ) Thanks for the discussion. It's great to get new ideas. Randi Randi Louise Hermans BCTLA Vice President Teacher-librarian Evans Elementary K-6 Chilliwack, B.C., Canada rhermans@shaw.ca -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/sub/ LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html --------------------------------------------------------------------