Dynamic shelving

One of the things I’ve become known for is my colorful and visually engaging (and non-typical) shelving strategies. I like to call this “Dynamic Shelving” and I love employing the…

I recently partnered with Demco to present a webinar on “Rethinking Collection Organization” as part of their Demco Ideas & Inspiration Webinars series. The webinar recording will b…

Last week I wrote about how our elementary library collection is going through a major transformation. In the post, We Spiced Up The Shelves....And Ditched The Dewey, I told all about how we have moved away from being organized by the Dewey Decimal System to a nonfiction collection organized by subjects. So far we have the nonfiction collection organized into 90 different subjects and subtopics. You can see the list in the NEW Van Meter Library Nonfiction Arrangement Google Doc. Please feel…

A game to practice library shelf order for fiction, nonfiction (Dewey Decimal System), and alphabetical order

The best part of my job is being able to visit with librarians and talk with them about anything from programs to books and how I can help. One of the benefits of visiting them is seeing the …

This is the second post in my Ditching Dewey series. Read Ditching Dewey Pt 1: Dear Dewey, It’s Not Me, It’s You I discuss in my previous post the reasons WHY Dewey isn’t working …

Super Bowl ready!

I just finished genre-fying our high school library! I know a lot of librarians struggle with the “should I or shouldn’t I?” conundrum when it comes to genre-fication. I thought I…

Next week marks the start of National Library Week!

Learn more about how one librarian went about genrefying a Non-fiction book collection, and how you can do it too.