Circulate the…ah! Extension cord! [thud]Â
In the same way that giant inflatable gorillas do not inspire me to buy a car:
showing a guy riding on a cart does not make me want to buy that cart. Demco, you need to practice more.
Actually, I take that back. You’re doing the best you can trying to sell carts. If I were the ad agent, here’s a sample:
We have been asked to create Valentine’s Day rose cards. Here is what we need:
Here’s a list of authors that we have in the library who are known for their easier vocabulary. Once students visit the library homepage, these links should become active for them to be able to see the details of the book.
I love my job (as if that had to be restated). I just got home from the AZLA conference (actually, just back from Basha’s with celebratory donuts, danishes, and milk).
First, I chatted with the woman who would be presenting for the Dewey/Don’t We and I need to clarify. For fiction, I love by author, no genre.
But you can tell my bias towards fiction. Hardly anyone checks out nonfiction in my library. The presenters were talking about using the bookstore genres for nonfiction. You know what? That’s actually a pretty decent idea. I know that Dewey already is divided into subjects, but maybe re-organizing the nonfiction into bookstore style might actually get more checkouts.
The woman from Dewey/Don’t We also helped me fulfill a dream.
[Begin nerd obsession]
I met Michael Stackpole! This is the guy who created the Star Wars: X-Wing/Rogue Squadron series. Devin, I know! The creator of Corran Horn and the guy who made Wedge Antilles more mainstream. He agreed to let me podcast his talk, the photos, and he might even come to my library for a signing.
Woo! (Or as Wedge would say, “Wooha!” and then the AT-AT blows up.)
I will need time to make sure that the audio is maxed to how I want it, so it might take a little bit.
[End fanboy stalking moment]
The conference was great, Mango’s was great(mmm…fish burrito), and we received many positive comments from our audience members. If you are reading, thank you!
Check out Michael Stackpole’s site at stormwolf.com.
Today someone’s going to present on setting up their library in a bookstore style by genre. I think that it’s great to present on that because it’s very current.
Here’s my take (representing/speaking for only myself): Setting up by genre instead of Dewey pigeon-holes authors and encourages a reading rut for students.
Meg Cabot is a great example. Sure, she’s got the Princess Diaries, but what about the 1-800-WHERE-R-U? series. Or Avalon High? I have students that “read only fantasy”. They’re die hard (like me with Star Wars). What if I have them read Avalon High and they love it? (Very possible.) They might want to read more of Cabot’s stuff.
Would it shake the world if a fantasy die hard read a mystery?
But if I take them over to a different section of the library, I’m shaking their identity as a reader. I have a friend who reads only sci fi. I had him read Killer Angels because the awesome show Firefly was influenced by the book (woot, Joss Whedon). My friend read the book, could appreciate the tactics, but it wasn’t as good because it wasn’t sci fi.
Now, a positive for the genre model is Darren Shan. If that boy branched out into anything but horror, I would be shocked. He’s got his niche. (As if R.L. Stine would write a dating comedy.) But what about Stephenie Meyers’s Eclipse? Is it horror? But everyone tells me, “It’s not a vampire book!” (They’ve got fangs, they drink blood, they’re not Republican (I joke at my own political party)(if you keep reading after that, congrats to your open-mindedness!).
The bottom line, though, is whatever works to get students reading (and have them get ready for college libraries, or a library that’s not set-up the same, or…okay, so we have to balance a lot of needs).
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