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My first ha-Safran posting! It's been really helpful hearing from other librarians for the past month or so. My school is K to 8. I catalog all nonfiction together, regardless of difficulty, except for the very easiest "learn-to-read" type books. In that case, if the book has so little factual content that it would not be useful for writing a report or just learning information, then even if it's technically non-fiction, I put it with the easy readers, on the grounds that it will be found and used a lot more there. I don't restrict the younger children from the regular non-fiction shelves, since they are often very curious about a certain subject and will enjoy and learn from the illustrations and being read aloud to. I also, as it seems the other contributors here do, keep the holocaust books separate and less accessible, even the "picture books". Actually for me, a bigger organizational issue is how to deal with cataloging both Judaic and non-Judaic books, since our library needs to include both. We ended up using the Weine cataloging system for the 200's (and I include fiction books for the Jewish holidays there), the Dewey Decimal system for everything else, even if it has some Jewish content, but pulling the Israel 900 books and putting them on a separate shelf. If a book is fiction with general Judaic content (anything from the All-of-a kind Family books to Julia's Kitchen), it goes on the regular fiction shelves, or regular picture book shelves. That seems to work for us. Any other suggestions? Anne Biermann Lippman Jewish Day School Akron Ohio Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
