[aisle] Call Numbers

Wed Nov 9 11:26:22 CST 2022

Keary -

A few years ago I pulled books from both Fiction and Everyone to make a
First Chapter Book shelf. Often, 1st and 2nd grade teachers would send
students alone to the library with the instruction "Get a chapter book". My
FCB shelf is where we go.

My criteria: 1) must have defined chapters, 2) be at reading level AR 3.0
or below. It was a pretty big collection, so I didn't re-label everything.
I put a star on the spine of each book I pulled, as a visual for shelvers.
As new titles come in, they are cataloged as ER.

On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 1:26 PM Michelle Harris via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> Keary,
> I have something similar since I'm serving PreK-6th.  I have two sections
> for non-fiction: regular and easy.  The spines (for example) are 636.8 Joh
> or E 646.8 Joh.  E is for "Easy" or "Everyone".  The E non-fic also has a
> yellow label protector.  So it is easy to see at a glance if a little kids
> non-fic book gets mixed into the big kids non-fic because the yellow spine
> label is obvious.
>
> For fiction, we have 3 sections:  E for picture books (E Fic Joh)  ER for
> Early Readers (ER Fic Joh).  Those Early Readers are further split with a
> "red star" or "blue star" on the spine (with labels from Demco): the blue
> stars are the easiest early readers...think Elephant & Piggie all the way
> up to Mercy Watson.  The red stars are titles like Magic Treehouse and
> Notebook of Doom...longer chapters, but still early reader. And finally we
> have just plain Fiction (Fic Joh).  These are organized alphabetically
> within 7 different genres. Each genre is assigned a color dot at the bottom
> of the spine label.  Orange for Sports, Red for Horror, etc.   Teachers are
> very good about guiding students to appropriate reading levels.  "You 2nd
> graders are in the ER section and Mrs. Haynes will tell you when you can
> move from blue star to red star!"  We usually start moving students up to
> the genre bookshelves at about the 3rd grade level, but give them lessons
> in "How to Find a Good Fit Book" and provide bookmarks with titles like "10
> Best Sports Books for 3rd graders"  or "3rd Grade Loves a Mystery" to steer
> them towards appropriate titles.
>
> These sections have worked really well for us:  the call number is obvious
> in an online catalog search and the color coding is visually helpful once
> you get to the shelves.
>
> Michelle Harris
> Heyworth CUSD #4
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 12:22 PM Keary Bramwell via AISLE <
> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
>> I work at a pk-8th grade school that has call numbers all over the
>> place. I'm trying to come up with a more unified system and make it easier
>> for the different grades to find books at their level. The current call
>> numbers/categories for fiction are YA, FIC (this is mostly middle grade but
>> also can be a catch all), E (picture books), READERS, and GRAPHIC NOVELS.
>> But what's included in each area is all over the place and not super
>> consistent. I'm trying to create a section for chapter books (i.e. Acorn
>> series or Princess in Black) to help my kindergarten to second graders
>> navigate finding them easier. Right now, some of them are in the READERS
>> and some of them are in FIC, not to mention the few I found in E. Does
>> anyone have a section like this and if so, what do you call it or use for a
>> call number? Any other advice on how you organize your library when it
>> serves such a large age span to help the younger kids navigate it is
>> welcome! I am moving lots of my picture books into bins, but I have limited
>> space.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Keary Bramwell
>> School Librarian
>> Grace Lutheran School
>> kbramwell at graceriverforest.org
>> MAILMAN_MIMEDEFANG
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> Heyworth CUSD #4
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