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@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@mylist.net> wrote:
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...

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On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 11:02 AM Jenny Lussier <jlussier@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

On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 10:06 AM Michele Lane <mlane@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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