New Picture Book Section!

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 The NEW picture book section is complete!!  I'm very excited to present our new organization system for picture books.  I hope that it will make picture books more accessible to students and helpful for teachers and community members.  Picture books are already circulating more than before!!



The picture books are now organized based on topic rather than author's last name.   The topics have been grouped together based on similar topics with a color code.  So a book's call number will include the color bin it will be found in to help narrow your search in the stacks.  An example is P Purple Funny.  The P stands for Picture Book.  The Purple stands for the color label/bin.  Funny is the specific bin to look in. There are colorful labels on the shelves to help direct you to the right spot! 


The reason behind this new organization is mainly to help young learners.  Kids don't care who wrote their favorite books, they care what it is about.  There are many kids who ask for cat stories or dragon stories or books with cars and trucks.  Instead of needing me or another adult to pull out the books from the different shelves, kids can go right to the bin with all the cats, dragons, or things that go.  They are also facing forward instead of spines giving kids a better view of what the book actually is about!  

                             

This project has taken a lot of time this year and I want to thank everyone for putting up with a section of the library being under construction.  I hope this new structure will make things easier in the future! 

Lastly, I want to thank Nancy Daigle at Brookside School in Waterbury for introducing me to the METIS system (organizing by topic rather than author).  She is amazing!  

Here are the topics you can find in our picture book section:

Picture book categories

Gray

Things That Go

White

Math

Money

S.T.E.M.


Green

Nature

Seasons

Animals

Aquatic

Bird

Bugs

Dinosaurs

Amphibians & Reptiles

Mammal

Bears

Deer

Mice

Rabbits

Squirrels

Raccoons

Elephants

Tigers

Lions

Hedgehogs

Wolves

Pets

Dogs

Cats

Farm Animals

Fantastic Beasts


Pink

Art

Music

Performing Arts

Sports


Orange 

Family

Friends

Community

Home

School


Blue

Emotions

Growing up

Identity

Social Emotional 

Mindfulness

Imagination


Red

World

Food

Perspectives

Holidays

Christmas

Halloween

Easter

Valentine’s

New Years

Solstice

Hanukkah

Groundhogs Day

Thanksgiving

St Paddy’s

Eid

Kwanzaa

Diwali 

Yellow

Wordless

ABCs

Literacy


Purple

Funny/Humor

Mystery 

Adventure

Fantasy

Historical

Favorite Authors

                Carle

                Polacco

                Van Allsburg

                Wells

                 Rey

                Seuss

                Steig

                Cousins


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