[CASL-L] Paperbacks in the library

[Fitzgerald, Joy]

Hello Doreen,

    Yes, paperback sections have been around for a long time in many types of Libraries.  If you have the shelving, go ahead and create a PAPERBACK SHELVING area.

    I have always had a separate FICTION PAPERBACK SECTION in every Library I have worked in (a grade 4-8 school and thre different High Schools).  I also moonlighted in a variety of Public Libraries and they also had a separate PAPERBACK Shelving section even before I worked there.

     Some libraries choose not to fully catalog paperbacks.  Some choose to make cards and pockets, others slap a barcode on them and check them out as normal books.  When I first arrived in my present library, they had a paperback section, not cataloged, so I did a circ-on-the-fly, and just kept a run of barcode numbers and/ batch of cards to check out the uncataloged paperbacks.  If you decide a paperback is going to be a classic or long term item, you might either put a PROTECTIVE cover, of some sort, on it and catalog it fully.

     I can see that if you didn't have shelving, the bins that Kristie mentioned would work too!

    Joy



Joy Fitzgerald, Librarian Media Specialist, Dept. Head.

Rockville High School Library

70 Loveland Hill Road

Vernon, CT 06066

Joy.Fitzgerald at vernonct.org<mailto:Joy.Fitzgerald at vernonct.org>

860-870-6050 ext. 336<mailto:Joy.Fitzgerald at vernonct.org>

Hours of Operation: 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. E.S.T.



What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about education.
Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education

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From: CASL-L [casl-l-bounces at mylist.net] on behalf of DOREEN LOPEZ [dlopez at waterbury.k12.ct.us]
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 1:05 PM
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Subject: [CASL-L] Paperbacks in the library

I work in a 2 year old pre-K - 8 school that did not come from an existing school. My library is huge and severely under-stocked. My budget is so limited that I had to purchase paperback books at the beginning of the year. I have also accepted many donations (which will fall apart very quickly).



My shelves are not full, the books fall over and the paperbacks get lost in the shelving. I am thinking of making an entire section of the library "paperbacks only". Does anyone else have paperbacks in the library? Any and all ideas / suggestions are welcome!



Doreen Lopez
Library Media Specialist
Reed Elementary School - 33 Griggs St. - Waterbury, CT 06704
dlopez at waterbury.k12.ct.us<mailto:dlopez at waterbury.k12.ct.us>
203-574-8180 FAX - 203-574-6884

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