I'm just doing some catching up on posts after being absent during break. If
this was a future school library graduate, I do not think he's happy in class
or does not realize in the field that a system must be used to place
materials in some order to make location of the materials easier. Like someone
else
mentioned, I've also never heard of a school library or been in a public
library that utilizes anything other than the DDS. Perhaps this is some idea that
has cropped up more due to reading programs like Reading Counts or Accelerated
Reader where RC or AR books are kept together by reading level and segregated
from the non-RC/AR books...something I vehemently will not do. I feel
students should be able to leave my library and go to another (school) library and
be
able to quickly locate various items. Instead we indicate RC books by
placing a bright yellow spine label protector over the call number, stamp inside
the
book with a custom-made stamp and write in the RL (Reading Level) and the
Points. All books are then filed with the "normal" set-up of Easy, Fiction and
Non-Fiction.
As Judy mentioned, I sometimes wonder why some topics are filed in certain
spots...but I would hate to have to recatalog items if they changed their call
numbers! Hopefully that'll wait until I retire! Ha...
Such are my thoughts...
Tony Pope
Library Media Specialist
McHenry Primary School
100 McHenry Dr.
Rome, GA 30161
Pope1966@aol.com
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