Genrefying our Fiction Collection

This year one of our ISC goals has been to genrefy our fiction collection. It is an enormous project but one that is extremely worthwhile as I can confidently say that not  only will it  increase borrowing , our students will love it  as well and  be able  to find books they want to read more easily and quickly. School libraries that have moved to a genre arrangement have reported greatly increased borrowing and user friendliness.
Traditionally fiction is arranged by the author's surname from A -Z. Using a bookstore model, we will be arranging fiction alphabetically within genre sections. Genres will include aboriginal fiction, fantasy, action/adventure, historical fiction, dystopia, crime/mystery, sports fiction, family saga , romance, classics, humour, war and animal stories.
As readers we all have preferences and arranging books by genre provides a scaffold in the selection process. It will help students understand and articulate what they like to read and why and will give our ISC team the opportunities to discuss genres and further wide reading.

With Term 3 just about over, we are halfway through the genrefying  process and so behind  our hoped schedule to have the project completed by the end of the year.   This is disappointing for me as I would have loved to have seen all the genres set up by the end of year   but it is still great knowing that it is a "work  in progress" and will happen in its entity next year.