[LM_NET] AR Enterprise Users Only

[Janice Askew <jma0525@EARTHLINK.NET>]

Hi folks,

I've asked once this before, but how are you organizing your  
libraries using AR Enterprise?

We have our books organized by AR Levels for books in which we  
purchased quizzes.  However, as children are checking out books in  
our general (non-AR) collection, I am placing stickers on the spine  
indicating the level.  I am also writing BL, Pts, and Quiz # on the  
first leaf of the book since I don't have the funds to buy 4,000  
stickers to label them.

I have parents helping me shelve books.  We are confused as to where  
to shelve books that AR quizzes available using Enterprise.  Should  
we continue to shelve them with the general collection?  Should we  
include them with our purchased quiz books?

Another dilemma:

My media center received significant water damage due to Ernesto.  I  
lost my wall bookshelves due to mold and mildew -- Health Dept.  
mandated it..  They will arrive around the middle of January.  I  
still have books available for checkout on my double-sided  
bookshelves.  I know that I will have to pack up everything anyway.   
So, I'm wondering:  Why not go ahead and rearrange the media center  
books if need be?

I have 6 double sided shelves.  I'm thinking of assigning one shelf  
per grade level (k-5) for fiction books.  For grades K-3, I think  my  
nonfiction would have to be on one side and the fiction on the  
other.   For my nonfiction books in grades 3-5, I can  place them on  
the wall shelves interspersed with the books that are not AR.  The AR  
books will be detectable by their AR labels.

What should I do with my fiction books that don't have AR quizzes?   
Should I have separate shelving for them?

Can you picture what I'm thinking?

The kids are loving having Enterprise, but it is an organizational  
nightmare!  I have parents checking books and  labeling them for me.   
They have already started shelving the books in the leveled sections  
with books that have purchased quizzes.  I didn't know they were  
doing that until yesterday.  When I looked, several books were not in  
their original places in the general collection (non-AR).

Do you have suggestions?
What problems/solutions are you all having with Enterprise?

By the way, my new floor will be installed during our Winter Break --  
I hope!  Any words of wisdom would be appreciated.



Janice Askew
Media Coordinator
T. S. Cooper Elementary School
237 NC 32 South
Sunbury, NC  27979
jma0525@earthlink.net




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