[CASL-L] Biographies section question

[Elaine Lettiere]

I would love to consider genrefying but I am one person with two schools
and 27 classes to teach. I just can't wrap my mind around it!

However, when I feel like a part of the collection is not getting much
love, I pull books from the section and make a display with those books.
Often, I get a bunch of circulation when the books are in the spotlight. I
am careful though with my biographies that I have high-interest people~like
the creators of M&Ms and people who broke barriers.  I steer away from
celebrities and performers as their popularity is about one hot second.

Elaine

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 12:29 PM Laura Hedenberg <
lhedenberg at barkhamstedschool.org> wrote:

> I'm part of the genrefied group as well.  It has made a difference.  I
> also replaced many of my biographies with more up to date and visually
> pleasing ones for
> a unit in 2nd grade.  This helped as well.
>
> We use a lot of online resources including Epic Books and Fact Cite for
> biographies as well.
>
> Laura
>
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 11:14 AM Shannon McNeice via CASL-L <
> casl-l at mylist.net> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>> 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
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:06 AM Michele Lane <mlane at colchesterct.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 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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