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

[Joanne Zienty]

I think if you are going to intermingle them, you should have a label on
the spine that patrons can easily identify, too. We have this:

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Joanne

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 12:31 PM Karen Doyle via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> 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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