[CASL-L] Diane Ravitch's blog post on school libraries

[Kathleen Smith]

I am getting some anxiety reading all these responses.  I am assuming those of you who responded work at only one school.   I work at two and see 30 classes a week.   Can't imagine reorganizing the libraries at this point, especially after we JUST this year automated.    

I am curious, for those of you who reorganized, did you somehow change call numbers in your catalogs?

I understand the reorganization so that students can find the kinds of books they like but I would argue that they would never bump into something they did not expect to like if the system was the old fashion "abc order authors last name" way.    My other thought is that don't we want kids knowing how to use the computer to find what they like, teaching them how to search and how the computer can connect them to related books?  Isn't that what will happen in their future?     They won't always have things neatly packaged for them, don't they need to know how to search for things.

Please don't attack me for saying that, I truly see both sides and am thinking out loud...trying to make my anxiety about it all go away.  :-).  

- Kathleen

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On May 7, 2013, at 12:58 PM, "Earnshaw,Tracy" <tearnshaw at RSD13.ORG> wrote:

> I haven’t done so yet, but I plan to create laminated lists of the titles of the different series and attach them to the shelves or put them in small picture frames.  My daughter’s elementary school does something similar by listing the titles of the series in order and placing the lists on the end caps nearest the books.  I shelve my ficion alphabetically.  I have separate sections for short stories and for graphic novels.
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> Tracy Earnshaw
> Coginchaug Regional High School
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> From: casl-l-bounces at mylist.net [mailto:casl-l-bounces at mylist.net] On Behalf Of Cathy Andronik
> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 12:29 PM
> To: Pamela Mudry; CASL_L
> Subject: Re: [CASL-L] Diane Ravitch's blog post on school libraries
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> Okay, I've got another series question.  (I'm in a high school.)  How many of us shelve series fiction alphabetically by title?  Or according to the "number" of the series, regardless of place in the alphabet?  (I often wish authors would think about this when they write trilogies:  Please start the first title in the series with an "A," the middle one with an "L" word, and the last with a "W"!!!!  : )    )
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> Cathy Andronik
> Brien McMahon HS
> Norwalk
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> From: Pamela Mudry <PMudry at ansonia.org>
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 7, 2013 11:10 AM
> Subject: RE: [CASL-L] Diane Ravitch's blog post on school libraries
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> I feel a bit awkward asking this, but…
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> I’m looking for any kind of info related to cataloguing and shelving series fiction.  Anyone follow their own rules to make it easier for your students to identify them, search them, and/or find them on your shelves.
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> Pamela M. Mudry
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