one of the things I really like about Destiny is the Visual Search section.
it allows lower level students to look for pictures to find what they want
and also makes searching in history easier for all. look at my catalog page
and click on visual search or go to destiny.polk-fl.net and click on
Mulberry Middle if the link won't work. I do think books should be in Dewey
order.
http://destiny.polk-fl.net/cataloging/servlet/presentadvancedsearchredirectorform.do?l2m=Library%20Search&tm=Catalog
Sandy in Florida
Media Specialist
Mulberry Middle School
griffith-s@popmail.firn.edu
S. Griffith
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From: "Deb Evers" <devers@CUSHINGHS.K12.OK.US>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 3:44 PM
Subject: [LM_NET] SEC/MID: Reorganization of Fiction into Genres--my
thoughts
> After reading and ruminating over all of your wonderful comments, I felt
> that I just had to put in my own two cents!
>
>
>
> I guess the reason I touch a nerve in so many people with the question of
> "reorganization of the fiction collection into genres" is that we all have
> such different ideas about our mission in school libraries. Some of us are
> more service oriented-just wanting to get that perfect book in the hands
> of the student! Some of us see our mission to prepare the students for
> "The Real World" by teaching them library skills that will serve them in
> other libraries out "there." Most of us are trying to strike a balance
> between the two.
>
>
>
> I really feel that there is a lot of truth in the comment that a "true
> reader" will find the books no matter where we hide them. Maybe it's my 17
> years of teaching learning disabled kids that makes my heart go out to
> those who really can't learn to use OPAC. Or if they can, they're
> completely overwhelmed by the sheer number of hits. Or maybe it's just my
> own feeling of panic whenever I find myself in a Library of Congress
> system library without a clue! But I tend to lean toward making the
> library easier for those kids.(I really love those
> "Deer-Caught-in-the-Headlights" kids)!
>
>
>
> When I think of this reorganizing as a radical change, I remind myself
> that Melville Dewey, himself, put the fiction in the 800's-not on a
> separate shelf. I wonder who was the first to get the great idea to take
> fiction books and put them somewhere else (and how much flack did they get
> because "It's always been done that way"?
>
>
>
> Will I reorganize my fiction collection into genre? Probably not. The
> jury's still out on that one. Actually, I'm pretty near retirement, and
> I'm afraid the librarian who follows me might not appreciate my labors.
> But, I DO plan to get some spine labels. And we'll go from there!
>
>
>
> Please forgive me if I choose not to respond to other comments on this
> thread. I've dedicated much too much time on this interesting and
> fascinating question.
>
>
>
> --Deb
>
> Deb Evers, Library Media Specialist
> Cushing High School
> Cushing, OK
> devers@cushinghs.k12.ok.us
>
> A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right
> to bring up children without surrounding them with books.... Children
> learn to read being in the presence of books. - Horace Mann
>
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