[CASL-L] Biographies section question

[Shannon McNeice]

I have mine genrefied as well. The sports and music biographies circulate
like crazy.
The American History and World History are only used during the 8th grade
History Day Project, so I hang onto them...

Shannon

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On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 11:02 AM Jenny Lussier <jlussier at rsd13.org> wrote:

> Hi all - I have also found that my biographies got checked out much more
> frequently when I organized them by type - sports, science/tech, historical
> figures, and entertainers/artists. I do have a miscellaneous category for
> people that don't quite fit, but it's been so much easier for my younger
> kids to browse and find people. I'm not sure if that would help at the
> upper grades or not, but it has definitely made a difference here. I just
> put a tiny colored dot on the spine.
>
> Jenny
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> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:06 AM Michele Lane <mlane at colchesterct.org>
> wrote:
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>> Good morning,
>>
>> I am working on weeding my biography section and thought I'd crowd source
>> my question. My biography section sits neatly on the shelf, relatively
>> untouched for the past 5 years. It contains different level readability
>> books on the same person. As these are not read, and biographies are
>> readily available online, my desire is to weed down based on year published
>> and last circulation. Does anyone have thoughts on why I should keep
>> multiple reading levels of these biographies?
>>
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