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

[Tasha Squires]

I started a language collection a few years ago when it seems we had quite
a few students with the need for them. Of course, the one girl from China
that I was really hoping to help, I got the Manderian and she read
Cantonese. Follett just has it listed as Chinese so that wasn't helpful!

I put them in one area together because I can see a lot of kids checking
out a language that they don't read accidentally. Also, it is easy to grab
multiple books in one language to quickly support a student. That way a
student can see right away how many Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, etc. books
I have.

It is just cool that you are getting a collection for the new library!

Good luck with whatever you decide to do!

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 12:37 PM Joanne Zienty via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> 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:
>
> [image: x1280606a_m.jpg]
>
> 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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Tasha Squires
O'Neill Middle School
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Author of Library Partnerships: Making Connections Between School and
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