<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Keary,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">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. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">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.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Michelle Harris</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Heyworth CUSD #4 </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 12:22 PM Keary Bramwell 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 class="msg7244931084628343942">
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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.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.aisled.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.aisled.org/</a></div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Michelle Harris</b></font><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">District Librarian</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Heyworth CUSD #4</font></div><div><br></div></div></div>