Shelving Fiction Suggestions by Joy Millam https://padlet.com/jmillam/shelvingSanity LM_Net list - shelving suggestions. The majority said to let it go and simplify. en-us 2016-10-26 18:25:51 UTC 2023-07-26 10:11:57 UTC hello@padlet.com Author Dividers can help & draw attention jmillam https://padlet.com/jmillam/shelvingSanity/wish/133440598 Sara Nielsen uses these to bring attention to a series or author. ]]> 2016-10-26 18:31:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jmillam/shelvingSanity/wish/133440598 Change label protector color to assist helpers in identifying a series jmillam https://padlet.com/jmillam/shelvingSanity/wish/133441210 A tinted label protector can work as well. One person used a highlighter on the label.
Use different colors for each series by an author.  ]]> 2016-10-26 18:32:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jmillam/shelvingSanity/wish/133441210 Just let #4 go jmillam https://padlet.com/jmillam/shelvingSanity/wish/133444629 I have them do:

1) books are fronted and held up by a bookend,
2) books are in order by spine label (first 3 letters of author's last
name),
3) books by the same author are together and if they are part of a series, in series order (series are marked with a spine label showing the # in the series, if the publisher didn't include it on the spine). 

I do not care about alpha by title nor the first names of authors with the same last name.
]]> 2016-10-26 18:41:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jmillam/shelvingSanity/wish/133444629 More for letting #4 go... jmillam https://padlet.com/jmillam/shelvingSanity/wish/133445099 I don't care about # 4 at all. I do care about the first part of #3 that books by same author are together plus I try to keep an author's series titles together (maybe not always in series book order but I try :). ]]> 2016-10-26 18:42:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jmillam/shelvingSanity/wish/133445099 Longer spine denotations and added info for series jmillam https://padlet.com/jmillam/shelvingSanity/wish/133448620  I've started labeling FIC with the author's full last name. That doesn't solve all your problems, but for me it helps a LOT more than the vagueness of three-letter spine labels. (I've even started adding additional lines for series books, like "FIC Clare Infernal v.1" for the Infernal Devices series]]> 2016-10-26 18:51:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jmillam/shelvingSanity/wish/133448620 Dot this jmillam https://padlet.com/jmillam/shelvingSanity/wish/133452152 Colored dots can help students identify a series and just write the book # on the dot. 
Denote different series by a single]]> 2016-10-26 19:00:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jmillam/shelvingSanity/wish/133452152 My question posted on the list jmillam https://padlet.com/jmillam/shelvingSanity/wish/133491683 My original question: ]]> 2016-10-26 22:33:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jmillam/shelvingSanity/wish/133491683 Print a shelf list  jmillam https://padlet.com/jmillam/shelvingSanity/wish/133515597 Have the students work the shelves from a printed shelf list. 

]]> 2016-10-27 02:59:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jmillam/shelvingSanity/wish/133515597 Cut #3 jmillam https://padlet.com/jmillam/shelvingSanity/wish/133515697 Relax your expectations, it is enough that the books are in order by last name.]]> 2016-10-27 03:00:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jmillam/shelvingSanity/wish/133515697 Place Series books in a separate section jmillam https://padlet.com/jmillam/shelvingSanity/wish/134800509 For large series (6 books or more) we put the books on a Series Wall. It keeps our shelves from having big empty spots when a series is all checked out. ]]> 2016-11-02 14:53:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jmillam/shelvingSanity/wish/134800509