[aisle] Where do you put books in other languages?

[Karen Doyle]

We are getting a brand new library in my school in a few years and are in
the planning process now.  (Yay!)  I'm wondering where people shelve their
foreign language books.

Right now we have them in a separate section and they never check out.  I
was at a workshop last year and the presenter suggested intermixing them
with the English books of whatever section they would normally fall in
(fiction, bio, etc).  I think that makes sense, but will it be confusing
for kids looking for books?  Should I mark them so they are more easily
identified as being in Spanish or Vietnamese?

My inclination is to intermix them with a label on the front stating the
language the book is written in.  I would then also add a colored spine
label cover as an indicator to myself.  Thoughts?

Karen Doyle
Library Media Specialist

Komarek School
8940 W. 24th St
North Riverside, IL 60546
708-447-8030
www.komarekschool.org
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