Greetings!
This week we will discuss the 400s. In this section we have books on languages. Usually when we think of languages, we think foreign (to us) languages, however, English is a language so put your dictionaries, grammar, vocabulary, and books on etymology in this section. You can see where to catalog books on other languages in the breakdown below.
400 Language
410 Linguistics
412 Etymology
413 Specialized dictionaries: Thesaurus, Synonyms
415 Grammar
419 Sign languages
420 English and Old English
423 Dictionaries
425 Vocabulary, grammar (or in 372 section)
430 Germanic languages; German
440 Romance languages; French
450 Italian, Romanian and related languages
460 Spanish and Portuguese languages
470 Italic languages; Latin
480 Hellenic languages; classical Greek
490 Other languages
What to weed from here? Discard old-fashioned and outdated books of grammar. Check the condition of the books and either repair or replace any that are in poor condition.
What to add? Check your dictionaries. Do you have any unique dictionaries? Consider putting in a rhyming dictionary, a book of idioms, or any other interesting ones that you come across. One type of 400 book that is popular in our library is the series “The First Thousand Words in . . .” published by Usborne. We have the typical Spanish, German, French, and Italian but a couple of years ago, students asked for Chinese, Latin, and Russian, so we added those as well. Check with your students to see what languages they would like to have in the library. As children see their ideas come into the library, they become more interested in using it. You might have Spanish-English dictionaries or other dictionaries with dual languages in it. Put those here.
Do you have any children going on vacation to a foreign country? Ask them to bring back a children’s picture book for the library written in the country’s language. I just talked to a girl who will be going to Thailand and asked her if she would try to bring something like that for the library. Most families would not think of this and would be very happy to try to find a book for you.
I hope you have a great day.
Audrey
Monday, April 20, 2015
Monday, April 13, 2015
Working with Dewey - 300s
Greetings!
This week we move on to the 300s and see what needs to be done there.
This section is the most confusing to me. It is Social Science, and is easily mistaken for Social Studies by children which is confusing since Social Studies (History and Geography) are in the 900s! Another reason it can be confusing is that there seem to be so many categories there. It isn’t as straight forward as the 200s – Religion or 400s – Languages. Here is a list of what is included in the 300s.
300 Social Science
306 Family, marriage, divorce, death
310 Collections of general statistics
320 Political science
325.1 Ellis Island, Immigration
326 Slavery
330 Economics
331 Careers
332 Money; allowances
333 Energy
333.95 Endangered species
340 Law
350 Public Administration and Military science
360 Social problems and services, associations
362.4 Physical disabilities
362.7 Personal safety
363.7 Recycling
370 Education
371.3 Study Skills – testing,
372 Elementary Education
372.4 Old reading series books
372.44 Vocabulary
372.6 Language Arts
372.61 Grammar
372.623 Writing – reports, essays, themes
372.63 Spelling
372.7 Math
380 Commerce, communications and transportation
383 Pony Express, Mail
390 Customs, etiquette and folklore
391 Costumes, clothing history
394.2 Holidays (Rogers separates the holidays out as shown below)
394.2 Christmas
394.21 Thanksgiving
394.26 All other holidays
395 Manners
398 Folklore, fairy tales, legends
So, let’s ignore 310 and 340. You likely won’t use these sections much if at all in the elementary library. Instead here is what you will likely be using most.
306 Family, Marriage, Divorce, Death
320 Political Science
325.1 Ellis Island, Immigration
326 Slavery
330 Economics
331 Careers
332 Money; allowances
333 Energy
333.95 Endangered species
350 Public Administration and Military science
360 Social Problems and services
362.4 Physical disabilities
362.7 Personal safety
363.7 Recycling
370 Education
371.3 Study Skills – testing
372 Elementary Education
372.4 Old reading series books
372.44 Vocabulary
372.6 Language Arts
372.61 Grammar
372.623Writing – reports, essays, themes
372.63 Spelling
372.7 Math – Teaching of math
380 Commerce, communications and transportation
383 Pony Express, Mail
390 Customs, etiquette and folklore
391 Costumes, clothing history
394.2 Holidays (Rogers separates the holidays out as shown below)
394.2 Christmas
394.21 Thanksgiving
394.26 All other holidays
395 Manners
398 Folklore, fairy tales, legends
Use this somewhat shorter list to see what you might put in your library. Do you have books on divorce? Consider how many of your students come from divorced families. It may well be a subject that is important to include in your library.
Books in immigration, Ellis Island and slavery will help support your curriculum as you teach these subjects.
Do you have any books on careers? Allowances? Money? Our Adventist Book Centers have a few books on money management and one or two are particularly focused toward children. Other subjects that are important to have in your library are books on endangered species, recycling, study skills, holidays, and manners.
Some subjects that are fun to include are books with costumes and clothing, and the Pony Express.
What should we weed out of this section? Check to see if the books you have are older than five years. If they are, it is possible that the information inside is outdated. Take a look inside to see what information is given and make a quick evaluation to decide if the book is still worthwhile to have in the library. If you aren’t sure, make a notation inside the front cover of the date you considered discarding the book. If in a year or two the book still has not circulated, you may then feel more comfortable about discarding it.
Look at the books in each section quickly.
1. Check the physical condition of the books. Weed out books that are marked up, shabby, have very small print or poor quality pictures, missing pages, warped cover or wavy pages damaged by water.
2. Check the content. Is the information obsolete? Do you have travel books from the 1960s? Do you have multiple copies that aren’t needed?
3. Do you have materials that aren’t circulating? Why aren’t they being used? Can you promote them so they will be used or would it be better to find other materials to replace them?
4. Is there other information on the same subject in your collection to justify discarding the book?
I was in a school a few years ago that had multiple shelves of old Reader’s Digest and Time Life books on countries and travel. The books were in good condition, and there was a lot of information and pictures in them. I would have discarded them since they were outdated but the teacher wanted to keep them. The books helped to support the study of different countries and any outdated information could be updated quickly by using the internet. You decide if the book will help support your curriculum or not. You might want to discard them, but if there is nothing else to replace the information, it might be best to keep the books until you can upgrade to a new set. Then you can discard the old set.
You might want to consider subscribing to a database such as CultureGrams from Proquest or Scholastic’s database GO!
CultureGrams includes a section about the United States and another section about the countries of the world. The information is updated every few hours so what the students learn is up to the minute.
GO! is a database that I don’t have, so I went to the website to find out about it. It looks like it includes three encyclopedias, two science resources – one on animals and one on science, a United States resource and a world resource, plus a Spanish resource for Spanish speakers. I don’t know anything about price, but you can check it out at this site. http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/grolier/
I hope things are going well for you and that you have a great week.
Audrey
This week we move on to the 300s and see what needs to be done there.
This section is the most confusing to me. It is Social Science, and is easily mistaken for Social Studies by children which is confusing since Social Studies (History and Geography) are in the 900s! Another reason it can be confusing is that there seem to be so many categories there. It isn’t as straight forward as the 200s – Religion or 400s – Languages. Here is a list of what is included in the 300s.
300 Social Science
306 Family, marriage, divorce, death
310 Collections of general statistics
320 Political science
325.1 Ellis Island, Immigration
326 Slavery
330 Economics
331 Careers
332 Money; allowances
333 Energy
333.95 Endangered species
340 Law
350 Public Administration and Military science
360 Social problems and services, associations
362.4 Physical disabilities
362.7 Personal safety
363.7 Recycling
370 Education
371.3 Study Skills – testing,
372 Elementary Education
372.4 Old reading series books
372.44 Vocabulary
372.6 Language Arts
372.61 Grammar
372.623 Writing – reports, essays, themes
372.63 Spelling
372.7 Math
380 Commerce, communications and transportation
383 Pony Express, Mail
390 Customs, etiquette and folklore
391 Costumes, clothing history
394.2 Holidays (Rogers separates the holidays out as shown below)
394.2 Christmas
394.21 Thanksgiving
394.26 All other holidays
395 Manners
398 Folklore, fairy tales, legends
So, let’s ignore 310 and 340. You likely won’t use these sections much if at all in the elementary library. Instead here is what you will likely be using most.
306 Family, Marriage, Divorce, Death
320 Political Science
325.1 Ellis Island, Immigration
326 Slavery
330 Economics
331 Careers
332 Money; allowances
333 Energy
333.95 Endangered species
350 Public Administration and Military science
360 Social Problems and services
362.4 Physical disabilities
362.7 Personal safety
363.7 Recycling
370 Education
371.3 Study Skills – testing
372 Elementary Education
372.4 Old reading series books
372.44 Vocabulary
372.6 Language Arts
372.61 Grammar
372.623Writing – reports, essays, themes
372.63 Spelling
372.7 Math – Teaching of math
380 Commerce, communications and transportation
383 Pony Express, Mail
390 Customs, etiquette and folklore
391 Costumes, clothing history
394.2 Holidays (Rogers separates the holidays out as shown below)
394.2 Christmas
394.21 Thanksgiving
394.26 All other holidays
395 Manners
398 Folklore, fairy tales, legends
Use this somewhat shorter list to see what you might put in your library. Do you have books on divorce? Consider how many of your students come from divorced families. It may well be a subject that is important to include in your library.
Books in immigration, Ellis Island and slavery will help support your curriculum as you teach these subjects.
Do you have any books on careers? Allowances? Money? Our Adventist Book Centers have a few books on money management and one or two are particularly focused toward children. Other subjects that are important to have in your library are books on endangered species, recycling, study skills, holidays, and manners.
Some subjects that are fun to include are books with costumes and clothing, and the Pony Express.
What should we weed out of this section? Check to see if the books you have are older than five years. If they are, it is possible that the information inside is outdated. Take a look inside to see what information is given and make a quick evaluation to decide if the book is still worthwhile to have in the library. If you aren’t sure, make a notation inside the front cover of the date you considered discarding the book. If in a year or two the book still has not circulated, you may then feel more comfortable about discarding it.
Look at the books in each section quickly.
1. Check the physical condition of the books. Weed out books that are marked up, shabby, have very small print or poor quality pictures, missing pages, warped cover or wavy pages damaged by water.
2. Check the content. Is the information obsolete? Do you have travel books from the 1960s? Do you have multiple copies that aren’t needed?
3. Do you have materials that aren’t circulating? Why aren’t they being used? Can you promote them so they will be used or would it be better to find other materials to replace them?
4. Is there other information on the same subject in your collection to justify discarding the book?
I was in a school a few years ago that had multiple shelves of old Reader’s Digest and Time Life books on countries and travel. The books were in good condition, and there was a lot of information and pictures in them. I would have discarded them since they were outdated but the teacher wanted to keep them. The books helped to support the study of different countries and any outdated information could be updated quickly by using the internet. You decide if the book will help support your curriculum or not. You might want to discard them, but if there is nothing else to replace the information, it might be best to keep the books until you can upgrade to a new set. Then you can discard the old set.
You might want to consider subscribing to a database such as CultureGrams from Proquest or Scholastic’s database GO!
CultureGrams includes a section about the United States and another section about the countries of the world. The information is updated every few hours so what the students learn is up to the minute.
GO! is a database that I don’t have, so I went to the website to find out about it. It looks like it includes three encyclopedias, two science resources – one on animals and one on science, a United States resource and a world resource, plus a Spanish resource for Spanish speakers. I don’t know anything about price, but you can check it out at this site. http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/grolier/
I hope things are going well for you and that you have a great week.
Audrey
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Working with Dewey - 200s
Greetings!
This week we will tackle the 200s and do our best to get them in shape. For most of us this section – the Religion and Bible section – is plentiful. We are Christian schools and we have access to Christian materials and can freely add in this section.
Below this post is the Dewey section of the 200s. I keep in mind that I have an elementary school library and not a university library or a theology major’s library. I can probably not worry about 210, 230, or 250. So, starting with 200, in this number would go anything that doesn’t really fit in any of the other sections. This is a more generic section. It is very likely that you won’t use this number, so don’t worry about it.
On to the 220’s. In this section we have copies of The Holy Bible, and a set or two of The Bible Story books. You probably have at least one set of these blue books in your library and possibly even in your classroom libraries, too. Older people often cull their libraries and like to donate these to schools. We also put our ‘Bible Biographies’ here. The books that are written about Bible characters such as Ruth, Samuel, Esther, and so forth call ‘Bible Biographies’. We have quite a collection at our school and have actually divided them into Old Testament and New Testament characters. If you don’t have too many of these I recommend that you keep them all together.
Next would be the 240s. I see lots of devotional books in schools that I visit and here is the place they belong. Put them in 242 and they will look nice all together.
Mission books belong in the 260s – in 266 to be specific.
If you have any books on the history of the church or history of Christianity, put them in 270. Books about the Waldenses specifically go in 272.
Books about Seventh-day Adventists go in 286.7, and other Christian denominations would be in 280.
If you have books about other religions, put them in 290.
Now, what should you weed out? This might be tough for you, since we never want to throw away Christian books. It might appear as though we are throwing away Christianity! Well, don’t worry about it. You are putting your house in order.
So, how many Bibles do you have? How many do you need? Are any of the Bibles in bad condition? Missing pages? Marked up and difficult to read? Here is a place to start. How many sets of The Bible Story do you need? Most schools only need one set. Choose one that is complete and attractive and get rid of the others.
How many devotional books do you need? I have been in small schools that have so many devotional books that each student could have two or three. Look at them and choose the ones that are child-friendly. Any that are for adults can be donated to the church and let the adults take them and read them. (Don’t accept them back in a year or two!) In fact, take a look and take ALL the books that are on an adult level to the church. These are probably too difficult for the children to read or not interesting for them and they take up space on the shelf that is needed for other things.
What about our Ellen White books? We actually have a separate section for Ellen White’s books. Take a look at all of the ones you have. I would expect that you have multiple copies of many of her books. Pull out one good set of the Conflict of the Ages series, one set of the Testimonies, and one of any of the others that will actually be used in the curriculum. Send the rest to the church library or put them on a table for members to take. Just because she wrote it does not mean that it is meant for children. Keep what you NEED and donate what you don’t need.
Now look and see what the other books look like. Discard any that are too adult, have few pictures or illustrations and tiny print, are too old or beat up, or aren’t attractive.
I hope this is a great week for you.
Audrey
200s
200 Religion
210 Philosophy and theory of religion
212 Bible atlas
220 The Bible
220.92 Bible Biographies (or can separate OT 221.9’2 from NT 225.9’2)
221 The Shoebox Kids, Guide’s Greatest, etc
230 Christianity and Christian theology
240 Christian moral and devotional theology
242 Devotional Literature (or can separate Daily Devotionals 242.2)
248 Christian experience
250 Christian orders and local church (preaching, texts of sermons, pastoral work and office, parish administration, pastoral care of families and kinds of persons)
260 Social and ecclesiastical theology (sacraments, other rites, religious education, spiritual renewal, public worship, associations for religious work)
266 Mission Stories
270 History of Christianity and the Christian church
272 Waldenses
280 Christian denominations and sects; general Christianity
286.7 Seventh-day Adventist denomination
290 Other religions (Greek, Roman, Judaism, Islam, etc.)
This week we will tackle the 200s and do our best to get them in shape. For most of us this section – the Religion and Bible section – is plentiful. We are Christian schools and we have access to Christian materials and can freely add in this section.
Below this post is the Dewey section of the 200s. I keep in mind that I have an elementary school library and not a university library or a theology major’s library. I can probably not worry about 210, 230, or 250. So, starting with 200, in this number would go anything that doesn’t really fit in any of the other sections. This is a more generic section. It is very likely that you won’t use this number, so don’t worry about it.
On to the 220’s. In this section we have copies of The Holy Bible, and a set or two of The Bible Story books. You probably have at least one set of these blue books in your library and possibly even in your classroom libraries, too. Older people often cull their libraries and like to donate these to schools. We also put our ‘Bible Biographies’ here. The books that are written about Bible characters such as Ruth, Samuel, Esther, and so forth call ‘Bible Biographies’. We have quite a collection at our school and have actually divided them into Old Testament and New Testament characters. If you don’t have too many of these I recommend that you keep them all together.
Next would be the 240s. I see lots of devotional books in schools that I visit and here is the place they belong. Put them in 242 and they will look nice all together.
Mission books belong in the 260s – in 266 to be specific.
If you have any books on the history of the church or history of Christianity, put them in 270. Books about the Waldenses specifically go in 272.
Books about Seventh-day Adventists go in 286.7, and other Christian denominations would be in 280.
If you have books about other religions, put them in 290.
Now, what should you weed out? This might be tough for you, since we never want to throw away Christian books. It might appear as though we are throwing away Christianity! Well, don’t worry about it. You are putting your house in order.
So, how many Bibles do you have? How many do you need? Are any of the Bibles in bad condition? Missing pages? Marked up and difficult to read? Here is a place to start. How many sets of The Bible Story do you need? Most schools only need one set. Choose one that is complete and attractive and get rid of the others.
How many devotional books do you need? I have been in small schools that have so many devotional books that each student could have two or three. Look at them and choose the ones that are child-friendly. Any that are for adults can be donated to the church and let the adults take them and read them. (Don’t accept them back in a year or two!) In fact, take a look and take ALL the books that are on an adult level to the church. These are probably too difficult for the children to read or not interesting for them and they take up space on the shelf that is needed for other things.
What about our Ellen White books? We actually have a separate section for Ellen White’s books. Take a look at all of the ones you have. I would expect that you have multiple copies of many of her books. Pull out one good set of the Conflict of the Ages series, one set of the Testimonies, and one of any of the others that will actually be used in the curriculum. Send the rest to the church library or put them on a table for members to take. Just because she wrote it does not mean that it is meant for children. Keep what you NEED and donate what you don’t need.
Now look and see what the other books look like. Discard any that are too adult, have few pictures or illustrations and tiny print, are too old or beat up, or aren’t attractive.
I hope this is a great week for you.
Audrey
200s
200 Religion
210 Philosophy and theory of religion
212 Bible atlas
220 The Bible
220.92 Bible Biographies (or can separate OT 221.9’2 from NT 225.9’2)
221 The Shoebox Kids, Guide’s Greatest, etc
230 Christianity and Christian theology
240 Christian moral and devotional theology
242 Devotional Literature (or can separate Daily Devotionals 242.2)
248 Christian experience
250 Christian orders and local church (preaching, texts of sermons, pastoral work and office, parish administration, pastoral care of families and kinds of persons)
260 Social and ecclesiastical theology (sacraments, other rites, religious education, spiritual renewal, public worship, associations for religious work)
266 Mission Stories
270 History of Christianity and the Christian church
272 Waldenses
280 Christian denominations and sects; general Christianity
286.7 Seventh-day Adventist denomination
290 Other religions (Greek, Roman, Judaism, Islam, etc.)
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