Biography Organization

Welcome back to a new school year!

As our students return this fall, they will see a new and improved biography section in our library! Previously, most of our biography books were organized alphabetically by who the book is about and our "Who Was..." books were in a separate spinning rack.  While the "Who Was..." books have always been popular, the rest of the biography books rarely get checked out.  

This summer, I decided to rearrange the biographies based on topic and I hope this will make it easier for our students to find biographies that they are interested in.  Our topics include: Presidents, Musicians & Artists, STEM, Authors, Athletes, and other Important, Influential & Historical people.

Each topic is a different color with a color dot on the spine of the book to make them easier to put back on the shelves.

Also, all of the books were scanned into different sub-locations in our catalog system (for example: Biograph-President (Red)).  This allows students to see where they are in the library when searching the catalog.

We still have the "Who Was..." books in their own location but hopefully students will now begin checking out the other biography books this year.

I'm looking forward to another GREAT year of sharing reading and books with our students!!