No More Dewey

This month I went to the WEMTA conference and listened to many interesting speakers talk about all kinds of things that I could do in my school as the LMS. I went to one workshop were in a side note the speaker talked a little bit about changing her library to follow the bookstore model. I had been thinking about that same thing for a while. I want to make it easier for my elementary students to find books. I want them to do more browsing instead of always picking the same thing. I am now on a mission to change my everybody fiction into the bookstore model. Here are the steps that I have taken so far.

1. I ran off a report on the use of all the books in the everybody nonfiction.
2. I highlighted every book that had 2 or less uses.
3. I am weeding the section using that report.
4. I am coming up with my categories that the section will be divided up into. I have looked at the BISAC website to help me with categories. Having the print out of the whole section I have started looking at titles to come up with the categories. 

Here are the categories that I have come up with so far.  These are still changing daily as I start pulling books off the shelf and seeing that I can create a new subcategory. I am trying to make sure that each subcategory has at least 10 book in it. If it has less than ten I put it into the general subcategory.