My district is also using AR Enterprise or RenPlace. However, we haven't dealt
with these issues. I'm wondering if your Enterprise purchase includes the
availability of ALL quizzes. This can be purchase for a per student fee annually.
Our district did not do this because 1) each school already had 1000's of quizzes
and a collection to support those and 2) uncertainty of the ability to continue to
fund annual fees per student for ALL quizzes. So, now I wonder if you question
comes from this purchase of all quizzes. Are you planning to always make a
distinction between quizzes your school has purchased and the ALL available
options? If this is the case... it boggles my mind. How can you maintain this
separately? Wow! I remember a summer listserv conversation about AR shelving, and
the consensus was to shelve books according to Dewey. I personally advocate mixing
AR and non-AR together also. I am fortunate that my fiction section and almost all
of my Bio section are
100% AR. I accept the fact that never will my Easy and Non-fiction be 100% AR, so
I am at peace with this shelving issue. Many libraries provide access to particular
books in reading level order for quick selection. It comes down to what works in
your world. Good luck with the Enterprise quizzes. Keep us posted.Lisa Hunt,
NBCTLibrary Media SpecialistMoore, OK--- On Tue 10/31, Janice Askew <
jma0525@EARTHLINK.NET > wrote:From: Janice Askew [mailto:
jma0525@EARTHLINK.NET]To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDUDate: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:17:33
-0500Subject: AR Enterprise Users OnlyHi folks,I've asked once this before, but how
are you organizing your libraries using AR Enterprise?We have our books organized
by AR Levels for books in which we purchased quizzes. However, as children are
checking out books in our general (non-AR) collection, I am placing stickers on the
spine indicating the level. I am also writing BL, Pts, and Quiz # on the first leaf
of the book since I don't have the
funds to buy 4,000 stickers to label them.I have parents helping me shelve books.
We are confused as to where to shelve books that AR quizzes available using
Enterprise. Should we continue to shelve them with the general collection? Should
we include them with our purchased quiz books?Another dilemma:My media center
received significant water damage due to Ernesto. I lost my wall bookshelves due to
mold and mildew -- Health Dept. mandated it.. They will arrive around the middle of
January. I still have books available for checkout on my double-sided bookshelves.
I know that I will have to pack up everything anyway. So, I'm wondering: Why not go
ahead and rearrange the media center books if need be?I have 6 double sided
shelves. I'm thinking of assigning one shelf per grade level (k-5) for fiction
books. For grades K-3, I think my nonfiction would have to be on one side and the
fiction on the other. For my nonfiction books in grades 3-5, I can place them on
the wall shelves
interspersed with the books that are not AR. The AR books will be detectable by
their AR labels.What should I do with my fiction books that don't have AR quizzes?
Should I have separate shelving for them?Can you picture what I'm thinking?The kids
are loving having Enterprise, but it is an organizational nightmare! I have parents
checking books and labeling them for me. They have already started shelving the
books in the leveled sections with books that have purchased quizzes. I didn't know
they were doing that until yesterday. When I looked, several books were not in
their original places in the general collection (non-AR).Do you have
suggestions?What problems/solutions are you all having with Enterprise?By the way,
my new floor will be installed during our Winter Break -- I hope! Any words of
wisdom would be appreciated.Janice AskewMedia CoordinatorT. S. Cooper Elementary
School237 NC 32 SouthSunbury, NC
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