There was a post on Facebook the other day (by the awesome
Debbie Diller) that asked how big our classroom libraries are and what
grade we teach. It was really interesting to read about how many books all
kinds of teachers have. Several had hundreds, and several more (like me!) have
thousands of books in their libraries. It inspired me to share my classroom
library with the great big world.
I don’t technically have an exact count, but according to my
Booksource app, I have 2,156 books. This isn’t exact because I still have half
of my non-fiction books to scan and all of my picture books, plus all of the
class sets of novels that are hidden away until we need them! (Whew, that’s a
lot of scanning!) I’m estimating that I have close to 3,000 books. I’m hoping
to get them all scanned before summer- wish me luck.
Since we have around 3,000 books, we have them everywhere!
We have huge bookcases that were built into the wall last summer, and tons of
littler bookcases surrounding the room. Our books are sorted into fiction and
nonfiction, and further sorted after that. Most of the fiction is sorted into
genres, with authors and series pulled out for easy access. The nonfiction is
sorted into categories, but not as much as the Dewey Decimal system. It seems
to work well for us.
Pictures:
Next year, we are going to try a checkout system with our
class iPads. All of the books will be listed in an online system (Booksource)
and student will check out the titles they want, just like at the regular library.
I’m REALLY hoping it will work! Anyone have experience with keeping it going
all year? I usually start out really well, and by October, I’ve given up!
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