[ISLMA-Share] dewey for mammals

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I change Dewey numbers on books to help students in searching.  When browsing books are together that need to be together for our purposes.  When looking for a book that a student has a call number for, all they need to do is go to that number on the shelf.  It doesn't matter if it is a different number than in another library.  Numbers all go in number order.

Example: biographies about sports figures.  Some libraries put all biographies in the 921 section.  Some put the biographies about football players in the 796.33 football section.

I believe we do whatever makes sense for our patrons, curriculum and space.


Peggy Burton, Librarian

Williams Elementary School

1709 S. 9th Street

Mattoon, IL 61938

217-238-2800

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Thanks so much for everyone's input. I believe in organizing my library to encourage students to read as well. I have been slowly reorganizing certain areas of the library so they are more student-centered.

But the main problem I am having is that when I order books, they come in with labels that just done make any sense sometimes. Randomly a zebra book will come numbered the same as a horse book and so on. This is just making books impossible to find for my students and parent helpers.

I am keeping the beginning of Dewey and working with the numbers after the decimal as well as the letters. Specifically the letters, like other librarians in the thread have mentioned are super helpful when organizing and finding similar books!

I am working on planets next then I'll tackle sports. I love the recommendations.

Sincerely,
Rikki Steinmetz
Pleasantdale School District
Burr Ridge

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On Jan 25, 2017, at 11:31 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info<mailto:islma at list.railslibraries.info>> wrote:

I agree with being concerned about students not being able to find books, but I have noticed our public library is doing more with organizing books differently.  I understand with fiction books grouping them by series, but I too have trouble messing with the Dewey classifications.

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info<mailto:islma at list.railslibraries.info>> wrote:
Ladies,

I keep reading how you are "changing" the shelf call #s, and I wonder how this will affect students if they go to other libraries?  As a middle school LMC Director, I'm wondering if this will cause students to be unable to search for books in different libraries?

Am I missing something here?

Have a great day,
Michelle

Michelle Fiorini
Library Media Center Director
Benjamin Middle School
LMC HomePage: http://bms-bsd25-il.schoolloop.com/lmc

"A book, too, can be a star, 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,' a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe."
― Madeleine L’Engle, from her Newbery Award acceptance speech for A Wrinkle in Time (1963)



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Subject: Re: [ISLMA-Share] dewey for mammals

I didn't think to do this with animals and sports. That's fantastic.  I did something similar with all my folktales.  I switched their call number to Folklore and then the common tale like Folklore Pigs for the 3 little pigs, Folklore Cinder, Folklore Gold (Goldilocks). Not perfect, but it at least grouped all the folk tales that teachers like to grab for compare and contrast lessons.


Taryn Hettlinger Parise
Library Learning Center Director
Longfellow School
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Currently reading: Hoot by Carl Hiaasen, The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley




On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 6:54 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info<mailto:islma at list.railslibraries.info>> wrote:
This post is just what I need! I have been wanting to tackle my animal section for years (!) and this will motivate me to do it. I am looking at retirement in 5+ years and I want to leave my library the way I wish I had found it...

I am updating my sports section and just added an updated set of NFL teams, which, of course, are by different authors, so I used 796.332 NFL. They look nice all together on the shelf and they come up in the catalog in alphabetical order by team name...


Christine Cahill
Teacher/Librarian
Carrie Busey School
304 Prairie Rose Lane
Savoy, IL 61874
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 6:15 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info<mailto:islma at list.railslibraries.info>> wrote:
I ended up doing this with all my sports books. Even I dreaded shelving them! So all my sports books are now 796 BASEBALL or 796 FOOTBALL. For my few odd balls, or general activity books, I labeled them 796 SPORTS.

I never thought of doing that with animals.  That's a great idea.

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 3:36 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info<mailto:islma at list.railslibraries.info>> wrote:
I had the same problem. It's really hard to be consistent with the animal numbers and they get so long.

We ended up going to one digit past the decimal and use the animal name instead of the author. Students, teachers, parent volunteers, and library staff love it.

599.6 Zebras
599.2 Koalas
599.7 Bears
597.3 Sharks
598.4 Penguins

We have labels on the shelves for the different animals. Similar animals are still near each other by going on digit past the decimal. It's easy to remember one digit past the decimal. Shelving and inventory are very easy. It means we need to change call numbers for all new books and make new spine labels if they come processed, but the consistency is worth it.

Jill Berry
Elm School
Burr Ridge

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <islma at list.railslibraries.info<mailto:islma at list.railslibraries.info>> wrote:
Does anyone know where I can find a very detailed list for mammals in dewey? We are looking through our mammals section and there are animals everywhere that are not very well organized. For example, I have zebra books that are labeled 599.66, 599.665, and 599.72. I have some awesome parents that are helping with this, but I am having a hard time trying to find the correct numbers from some of these animals (yes I took a cataloging class and that is helping immensely but it would still help if there was a place to find a nice long list!).

Thanks!
Rikki Steinmetz
Pleasantdale School District
Burr Ridge, IL
rsteinmetz at d107.org<mailto:rsteinmetz at d107.org>

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