Clear DayGood morning everyone!
I received requests for a HIT. Here is my original question followed by a TON of
responses. If I receive more responses I will post a second HIT A Big Big Thank
You to everyone who took the time from busy schedules to offer advice. I do
appreciate it and this list serve. If by any chance this does not come through
properly please let me know and I will be glad to send an attachment.
With all the "new" magic school bus stories coming out based
> upon Joanna Cole and Bruce Degan's work but written by another
> author, how do you catalog them? For awhile I pu them in their
> Dewey sections but found the first graders had a hard time
> finding them all. Since primarily first graders check them out
> it would make sense to keep them all together in one place. If
> I put E COL on them all (meets my needs) I ignore the correct
> author. What have you done?
>
> Any ideas or advice?
>
> Thanks for your help. I do appreciate you all!!
Serena,
We have them all together where the kids who want them can find them all - but
never changed the call numbers (in case when I leave someday the next librarian
wants to change them back). It meets our needs and all the school knows where they
can be found.
We did that as well for the ones still in the more "picture book" format
within the Easy section. I think the chapter book adventures are also grouped
together in the Fiction section.
You could just file them under Magic which includes all the titles and
authors. We do this with a few groupings that have varied authors.
Scooby doo, Disney titles for the little ones in E. Also we have a
serial section for the Fiction series with differing authors. We keep
our American Girl Books, Pokemon, and a variety of popular series that
have multiple authors under Ser/F/series name
I use the first three letters of the title of the series when books are by
different authors so they will be located together i.e. Star Wars (E STA or F STA).
My MARC record lists the correct author for the book, the call code or call number
matches the series. I inherited my collection, and Magic School Bus books are in
both fiction and nonfiction. I haven't moved them to one location yet, but I've
moved lots of fiction titles.
Good Luck
After several years of frustration trying to make this type of decision I finally
chose a "special display." There is a spot in my library that is just perfect, so
all MSB book are displayed there. Every now and then someone accidentally shelves
a book in its true non-fiction spot, but the students all know just where to look
for MSB now. They check out so often it makes it easier for me too.
I had the same problem. I catalog them by the dewey/author but house
them on a low book shelf as a collection. I also have Magic Tree House
on the same self as well as Harry Potter books, so I call it my magic
corner. The kids love it. And it easier for me when I have a dozen kids
needing help at the same time.
I would keep them all in one "special" spot, but catalog them correctly
with the proper spine label on them. We have shelf where we keep series
books and that's where these are shelved. It makes life so much
easier!
Because of the same problem, I have done the following for years. I catalog them
correctly, they keep them together in some yellow school bus book ends that I had
purchased.
Rather than labeling them all Everybody Cole (they're that odd "in
between" that some are calling Fact-ion lately), I'd label them
"correctly" and then select an area for them to be kept in. I've been
finding that I like having the active series books shelved in their own
area - either on shelves (as at the one school I work in) or in separate
baskets (as the media specialist at my kids' school does). The school I
work at that does not have them separate has problems with "exploding
shelves" - where the books tend to fall when the shelf is "loosened" too
much for the bookends to handle.
What we have done with series like that with many different call numbers and even
different authors (e.g. Zoo Books, Eyewitness Books, American Girl books, etc.) is
to put them all together is a single location. Students always know where they are
and we have found that many kids want to read another in the series without regard
to it's subject.
have a section of everybody nonfiction. The books have a regular dewey call number
with an E as a preface. I also add a red dot as that lets us see them easily if
they are misfiled with the regular nonfiction. I could use at least twice as many
easy reader nonfictions as I have. Those books are some of my most popular of
anywhere in the library.
Have you considered creating a 'series' section and grouping popular books in
different series together? You could catalog them to reflect the correct author
but shelve them so they are accessible for your students' needs.
If you are talking about the ones with the red border on the covers
-- based on a tv episode - I give them a Dewey number and the correct
author info. BUT, I shelve them all together on their own shelf.
Sometimes the parent volunteer shelving them forgets, so I do a sweep
of the dewey section once a month or so, and pull out any stray ones.
The chapter book ones, I catalog as FIC MAG, so they end up
together on teh shelf anyway. You could put the more nonfiction
ones as E MAG.
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