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

[Jo Anne Sundberg]

I have mine together in a separate section. They are labeled SPANISH (about
2 book cases), BILINGUAL SPANISH (1 bookcase) and URDU (about 50 books).
The call number is also E, FIC or DD number for nonfiction. The spine
stickers make them easy to sort and shelve.  Also,  this makes it very easy
to direct kids to a section when they are looking for other languages.

I have a few French books and books about language  but they are just on
the shelf with the other nonfiction books.

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
>
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JoAnne Sundberg
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