HI. My library serves PK-6, and I took on organizing the library based on how students look for books.

Chapter books are by genre, which has been very successful.

Early Chapter books are organized by series in book bins, this has been GREAT. This is the first year for this.

Misc early chapter books are on a rack near the series bins.

Picture books are a combination. I find that students want books by author (Mo Willems, Eric Carle, etc) so most of the books are alphabetical by author. But I have several special areas: Dogs, Cats, Friendship, SEL, Makerspace, Fairy/Folk tales, ABC/123, School/Library, I Spy, and Mo Willems. I have several spaces where I highlight books, this month it's Snow and New Picture books. I rotate these, so next month will be Black History Month. Throughout my picture books I also have bins to highlight favorites: dinosaurs, unicorns, Pig the Pug, etc.

For fiction books I added locations for every book based on the genre or early chapter books.

Nonfiction is a work in progress. While I still have Dewey, I have changed things within the numbers. I have all of my military books in 358 and 350 (moved the ones from 600s and renumbered). Animals are whole number and then alphabetized or grouped, same for pets where I have all pets then horses, dogs and cats separate. In the 900s I rearranged everything so it was grouped by topic: ex: Countries are all together regardless of number. The next step is to renumber and update my OPAC to reflect the changes.

I am constantly looking for new ways to get books into the hands of my students. If anyone wants more pictures I can definitely send them.

Laura

On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 9:02 AM Christine Rosa <crosa@rsd6.org> wrote:

Hello Librarians!
I visited the Community Family Learning Center (CFLC) located at KidsPlay in Torrington last week where this small reference library has been totally reorganized in an amazing way. There are many different subjects labeled and within each are all the picture books as well as non-fiction. I don't want to really call it Genrefied, because it is more than just genres. Being that this is a parenting resource library, it is not exactly what I would imagine a K-3 library would look like. I am looking to do something similar in the elementary schools that I am reorganizing. I love the idea that kids can go to a section (animals, friendship, cultural diversity, ABCs, etc.) and find all the books on that topic.
Has anyone else done this? If so, can you share your subject lists and could I possibly visit your library?
Thank you!
Christine

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