[ISLMA-Share] color genrefying & categories

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I built mine off of Tiffany Whitehead after she was at conference a few
years ago...  and used her images and print them on avery address labels.

Her genres are
Inspirational,
Fantasy/Science Fiction
Historical Fiction
Sports Fiction
Realistic Fiction
Mystery/Suspense
Relationships/Romance.

I have added
Dystopian
Supernatural/Paranormal.

If I had it to do over again I might split fantasy and science fiction

I love to use titlewave to assign my genres.

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Email list for the Illinois School
Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I just color coded and moved mine into genres at the high school and I
> love it!   Trying to get all the middle school books finished now for the
> move.
>
> A few years ago I added genre stickers to the books at the middle school,
> but left them in A-Z order.  It made very little difference to the students
> looking for a certain type of book.  I am still in the process of
> relabeling and reorganizing the middle school and sticking to the genre
> stickers instead of color because they were already on much of our
> collection.  However, the see-through color labels at the high school look
> much better.
>
> Our middle school categories are:
>
> Adventure
> Classics
> Fantasy
> Historical
> Horror
> Mystery
> Realistic
> Sci-Fi
> Sports
>
> My high school collection does not have Adventure, but does have Humor and
> Romance.  I’m not done with middle school labels, but at the high school my
> largest sections are Fantasy, Realistic, Romance, and Sci-Fi.
> Surprisingly, Sports was very small.
>
> Jeanne Brucher
> Teacher-Librarian
> jbrucher at geneseoschools.org
> Geneseo Middle School (309) 945-0524
> Geneseo High School (309) 945-0316
>
>
> On Jan 13, 2017, at 10:59 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library
> Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
> Humor and Fantasy move the most at our school.  We have our fiction color
> coded and actually have them in genre sections.
>
> The kids love being able to find books similar to ones they enjoy reading.
>
> Kay Carter, Media Specialist
> River View Elementary
> 2097 Bronk Road
> Plainfield, IL 60586
>
> Currently Reading*:  I Am Malala by * Malala Yousafzai
>
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> I do! Email me at abendall at antioch34.com
> Amy Bendall
>
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> *Date: *Friday, January 13, 2017 at 10:42 AM
> *To: *"islma at list.railslibraries.info" <islma at list.railslibraries.info>
> *Subject: *[ISLMA-Share] color genrefying & categories
>
> I am thinking about color genrefying my library.
>
> They will still be arranged by author's last name, but they will be color
> labeled by genre so kids can find the translucent blue over the call number
> for mystery or purple for fantasy, etc.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this?
>
> Also, for anyone that has genreyfied, can you tell me the categories of
> genres that move the most at your schools so that I know how many colors to
> start with?
>
> So far I am thinking of
> Mystery
> Fantasy
> Science-fiction/Dystopian
> Sports
> Coming-of-Age
>
> What else should I do?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Mariela Siegert
> School Librarian
> Westfield Middle School
> @marris116
>
>
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Library Media Specialist,
Charleston High School

President-Elect,
Illinois School Library Media Association

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