<div dir="ltr">I did a set of biography videos last year for an English class, and did some categories like sports and arts, but I also did influencers and innovators, and the student liked those categories - it also kept it vague enough for those difficult to categorize biographies. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 12:26 PM Wagoner, Benjamin via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">We felt that if we created categories for our biographies that matched common themes that the English classes use it would support what our students are looking for at the moment. <div><br></div><div>Here are our categories:<div>Arts</div></div><div>Historical Figures</div><div>Military/War</div><div>Music</div><div>Personal Struggle</div><div>Social Issues</div><div>Sports</div><div>STEM</div><div><br></div><div>When we did this, our circulation of biographies increased. Good luck!</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 12:20 PM Mrs. Hamernick via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large">I changed all my bio call numbers to their dewey number based on topic. So all athletes are in the 700's, singers are in 600's, etc. They are intermixed with the other nonfiction books, but have a yellow spine label, so students know that it's a biography. I find this useful, as they typically know what area of nonfiction books they like to check out, so they can go to that area and now easily see the people associated with that topic.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 12:15 PM Flaherty, Megan via AISLE <<a href="mailto:aisle@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">aisle@list.railslibraries.info</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am in the process of heavily weeding our middle school non-fiction section and have removed a lot of the biography books because they are outdated and not circulating. I am brainstorming
different ways to organize the biography section in order to attract more students and make it more user-friendly. I have thought of separating it into areas based on what people are famous for (inventors, artists, government, sports) but would love to hear
other ideas. Anything you have done that has worked or are thinking of? <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance and hope you are surviving/enjoying the snow today<span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">😊</span> <u></u><u></u></p>
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