As recently as 6 or 7 years ago the Library of Congress was seriously considering
shelving books by size to make better use of space. Objections were raised by many
groups and I assume the idea died (haven't heard anything about it in years).
I have considered having a "folio" section for oversized books like a lot of
university libraries do. But I think in a high school those books would never get
used, like the short story section I inherited when I first started.
Now a color arrangement might actually work for some of my students...
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Tony Doyle, Library Media Teacher
Member California Young Reader Medal Committee
Livingston High School
Livingston, CA
tdoyle@MUHSD.K12.CA.US
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stop reading them."
Ray Bradbury
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From: School Library Media & Network Communications on behalf of jo turrentine
Sent: Thu 6/14/2007 6:28 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: [LM_NET] arranging a library humor
I am reading Here Lies The Librarian by Richard Peck. It is such a funny, tongue in
cheek book.
As the town resurrects the library and they are putting the books on the spanking
new shelves, a resident comments that it is interesting to arrange by Dewey Decimal
because the old librarian arranged the books by size.
Think it will catch on?
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