Genre-fying our Library
Last summer I took the plunge I had been contemplating for years and I genre-fied the fiction section of our library. I weighed the pros and cons: Pros Easier browsing More student-centered More student independence "New" books of interest are developed Cons Why ditch Dewey? This has worked for many years. Why reinvent the wheel? The system is well-established. Shouldn't I be helping my students use a system that they will find in other libraries? What ultimately pushed me to do this was the impact that I envisioned this would have on students. Students would be able to browse independently and discover more books in the genres they were interested in. No longer would they need to wait for me to travel with them through the fiction shelves and pull handfuls of books off the shelf that were "funny" or "scary." Our collection would be browse-able and student-friendly. The inspiration I had done some relocating and re...