How can you set up a small school library?

Answer 1

ask some children to bring some books and donate it to the new school library and also tell em that this way they can look into other books too other than theirs The above one sentence answer needs to be expanded upon. As it stands, the library above might be considered the corner of a Rec Room

A Library is a collection of items (usually beginning with books) that have been organized in a way that their contents can be ascertained without reading each book. Each book has a label indicating its address in a format called Dewey Decimal (like an old fashioned book GPS) where it can be found. A library has a catalog that allows one to for example - find all works on dogs. And every book has a library property label. There is also at least one person dedicated to acquiring, selecting, cataloging, labeling, shelving and de-selecting the books. One can have all the material and equipment of a library but without a librarian it decays rapidly - imagine a restaurant not looked after.

A collection of books without this structure is a book room or reading room. Setting up the library worth any effort is done over at least two years. It will need to have multiple groups of key people interested in its success in order for the effort to get underway and stay healthy. Key people are those whose opinions matter to the school community. It may include an accreditation body, the PTO, the Principal and/or certain teachers. The lead for the effort should be someone familiar with the workings of a library - a library professional or library aide. Consider them the General Contractor. They gather a team, find the space, build it out, describe the books wanted/ not wanted, decide upon a cataloging method [index cards, Exel spreadsheet, specialized Library Catalog packages, online services] and then spread the word. The biggest problem in the United States cities and suburbs is not getting hit by all the donations come flying in your way. The more serious hold-up in getting the library going is learning to do the cataloging as quickly as the books come in - this never happens. It is not uncommon to have a backlog of 70% in the cataloging queue.

Of course, this all speeds up if you can start throwing money at the problem. The best use of any initial monies is hiring an expert who can train staff in key skills such as asking the right questions and training in the basics of librarianship. If there is money for a software library catalog, it needs to be one that can accommodate at least two terminals - one for student searches and one for the cataloger/checkout station. Having a catalog that only the librarian can touch means that students will never be able to search on their own....this is a major oops The benefits of a library are the ability to open up to the entire student body all types of books- not just ones that were in their classroom - and access to more expensive books that need to stay in one place - the big book of flags for instance. But who the ^&*%% needs more books you say?! It's all going to be on the internet soon so why bother about anything other than textbooks.!....If nothing else, consider that the best way for children to learn to read is still via paper. And the process of learning to read continues way after they've finally decoded un-der-pants. Typically it is not until late middle school that the typical student can be considered fully fluent. That is when it can begin to make more sense to substitute electronic sources for print.

Answer 2

If you want to organize a library, there are many ways to categorize the books. Some ways would be by author, topic, or title.