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Publication Date: 2005-Oct
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Give 'em What They Want! Reorganizing Your Fiction Collection by Genre
Dumas, Elizabeth P.
Library Media Connection, v24 n2 p20-22 Oct 2005
As a former elementary library media specialist now in a new middle school library media center, it was frustrating for the author to not have enough time to assist students and discouraging to see the apathy that so many of the students displayed toward books and reading. Middle schoolers are busy with social activities, sports, and schoolwork. To attract these 'tweens and teens the author realized it was time to re-evaluate their library media center program and some of the traditional ways of thinking. In this article, the author describes how she reorganized the fiction collection by genre which was preferred by the majority of the students.
Descriptors: School Libraries, Library Services, Fiction, Classification, Middle Schools, Literary Genres
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Middle Schools
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Language: English
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