[LM_NET] TAR: Eyewitness & Childhood of Famous Americans

[Roseann <reo3@VERIZON.NET>]

We will be rearranging our entire library next week because we finally got
some new shelves and also have about 500 new books.  While that is great,
trying to move the entire collection of 9500 books in a week is going to be
tricky.

 

We currently have our Eyewitness books shelved as a series but it seems that
many of the titles don't get checked out, like the Dance, Art, Music, etc
because it is mostly the boys who like to sit and browse through the titles.
Of course their favorites are Battle, Arms & Armor, and any of the war
books.  So I am wondering how you all file these books, as a series or with
the other books of the same subject.

 

My other question is about the Childhood of Famous Americans biographies.
We have quite a few of these but I am not sure how useful they are when
students are doing their biography reports since they are not only old but
don't really have specific dates/timelines.  I have read that they are
mostly fictionalized accounts.  When our students are doing biography
reports we try to steer them away from these.  Do you have these books, and
if you do where do you shelve them?

 

Thanks so much..we want to try to move each shelf only once.  Yeah, like
that is going to happen!!

 

Roseann Ogas

Library Clerk

Rancho Vista Elementary

Palmdale CA

reo3@verizon.net

 

Currently reading A Prayer for Owen Meany


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