Give 'em What They Want! Reorganizing Your Fiction Collection by Genre
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2005
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| author | Dumas, Elizabeth P. |
| author_facet | Dumas, Elizabeth P. Dumas, Elizabeth P. |
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| contents | Give 'em What They Want! Reorganizing Your Fiction Collection by Genre Dumas, Elizabeth P. School Libraries Library Services Fiction Classification Middle Schools Literary Genres 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. |
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| institution | ERIC Institute of Education Sciences |
| language | en |
| publishDate | 2005 |
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| spellingShingle | Give 'em What They Want! Reorganizing Your Fiction Collection by Genre Dumas, Elizabeth P. School Libraries Library Services Fiction Classification Middle Schools Literary Genres Give 'em What They Want! Reorganizing Your Fiction Collection by Genre Dumas, Elizabeth P. School Libraries Library Services Fiction Classification Middle Schools Literary Genres 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. |
| title | Give 'em What They Want! Reorganizing Your Fiction Collection by Genre |
| topic | School Libraries Library Services Fiction Classification Middle Schools Literary Genres |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ762294 |