If you are thinking about going to the bookstore format instead of using Dewey make sure you think about it a lot before you start moving books. I think that my students will benefit from this change but it is a lot of work. I first weeded and inventoried. Then with my printed out inventory list I looked at the list to try to figure out main category headings for my sections. I thought since I lived 35 miles from my school I could cut the inventory sheets into the main categories and subcategories and then go in and just pull the books from the shelf. I found that it was a good way to start but I really needed to have my hands on each book. I have spent many hours dividing the books up and just when I think that I have a section done I figure out that it should be different. Now that I am getting close to being done I don't know what to call this section. I want to pull some of my everybody fiction in to it but not all. I am thinking that in my holiday section I would like to have the everybody fiction that deals with a holiday in that section. When I finally get this section done I will post some pictures of what the shelves look like. I think it will look better when we move into our new library in the fall of 2013 because I really don't have much space in our current library.
