How books are classified and arranged in the library?
Classification of books in the library...
Biography Genrefication
The last part of making my middle school library 100% genrefied was doing our biography section. Before the biography books were organized by who the biography book was about as the call number (ex.
a Kobe Bryant book would have B BRY as the called number).
Classification scheme in library science
However, once I saw a fellow librarian of mine out of Grand Prairie ISD who had their biography section genrefied by different categories the biography books could go into I knew that was what I wanted to do with my collection because it really has never gotten a lot of check outs.
So I did what I did with nonfiction (see previous post). I took all the books and put them into different bins by categories. There are less of these than what I used for nonfiction so I can list them: Actors/Celebrities, African Americans, Artists, Authors, Chefs, Inventors/Explorers, Musicians/Singers/Rappers, Native Americans, Presidents/Government, Religion/Mental Health, Scientists, Social Justice, Sports, Texas, War, and