They also LOVE Alex’s Good Fortune! Thanks for sharing the activities 🤓 I was so happy to find your books!

We grew up in the country, so we were all on well water, but my cousins grew up in the suburbs. They were on city water, and they both went to the wastewater facility in elementary and middle school.

A high ponytail really would have pulled the whole look together 😂

I clocked her banned books sweater right away! Loved it

I think this hits that sweet spot of browsable vs searchable. Kids can walk up and find topics easily, but we can also search for a specific book in the catalog and find it on the shelf now! #TLsky #LibrarySky #EduSky

Yeah I agree. I think Metis is uniquely wonderful for an early years setting. My friend did just reclassify her nonfiction collection to topic based whole word call numbers (inspired by Metis) and her circulation has increased wildly. Like some sections by 500%

Terrible! I reclassified my early years collection to Metis and it is SO much better. Circulation doubled because it makes sense to students AND, as a bonus, it’s not so heinously offensive.

Yaaasss. DDC is the worst, but I don’t have the staffing, time, or resources in this library to do a full reclassification to whole word call number. This is like the bootleg version of that lol. I reclassified our early years library using Metis, and it is amazing. Gottta ditch Dewey!

So many ancient books, so little time 🤣

Franken-Dewey! I’m making each shelf about one topic. So it’s a lot of weeding and changing call numbers. For example, we’ll have a 305 shelf about community workers that I’ll put all the jobs books on.

Hahahaha it’s my fav thing to do. It’s like finding a time capsule 😂 I work in China and I just weeded a book about the Mayflower from 1969

How will we live without this book about American football from 1992? 😂🤣 #EduSky #TLsky #LibrarySky

I’ve never had the physical shelf space to reorganize and dynamic shelf-ify (shout out @kelseybogan.bsky.social) my elementary collections. How did you do it?

I was a whole school librarian for 7 years and reorganizing to make it more browseable is easy to do with MS/HS nonfiction collections because circ is lower and the curricular support is often digital, but my elementary nonfiction sections have been large and they get SO much circ.

I love talking to librarians about this stuff 🤓 Are the pictures in your first reply from your library? I’m always interested in how elementary school librarians reorganize their nonfiction.

I thought about keeping the baskets and changing the call numbers, but because of the shelves’ width, they can only hold two baskets which isn’t enough to hold the collection.

I think the missing piece was not changing call numbers to either whole word topics (like Metis classification) or changing DDC call numbers to make a basket have a small, set range (like a food basket with only 641.5) that could sit where it should go if it were spine out.

It looks good, but isn’t functional. I was recently moved to this school, and I was excited to see that someone had tried to make it more browsable. It’s just that some books in baskets and some books spine out is VERY confusing. I can’t find anything. Kids can’t find anything.

We’re ditching the baskets and going to one topic per shelf. I’m going to have to change a lot of DDC numbers to make it make sense, but that’s fine. We don’t have the space to do everything in baskets (which is my first choice). Hopefully this hits the sweet spot between browsable and searchable