Whew! Today was a very busy day. Students are returning their books for the end of the year sweep, and the YA shelves are full to bursting. That’s good and bad news. Good because we have so many books, bad because I had to find a way to expand the collection to free up the shelves.
The problem was solved by having to move the entire fiction collection for grades 5-6 out of their current location. Shelf by shelf, beginning with the letter Z and working my way to A, I moved about a thousand books to free up a wall of 20 shelves. When that was done, beginning with the letter Z and working my way to A, I moved some of the YA collection to those shelves and spread them out on their current 16 shelves. When it was done, I heaved a sign of relief.
Both collections have room to expand and, with the YA collection enclosing the grade 5-6 collection on 2 sides, these students can be directed to go “on the edge” to find their books. This is a little play on words I made up to describe the types of books the collection has – books that will keep students “on the edge” of their seats.
Tags: expand, on the edge, YA, YA collection
