Book battles and shelf guides

Miriam Tuohy at Russell Street School Library shared on the list serv news of Round 2 of the Year 5 and 6 students' Bookapedia book club and the school-wide "Book Battles" they have organised...

Here is a link to the website all about the Battle of the books http://bookapediabattles.weebly.com
and here is the Russell Street Bookclub Blog http://rssbookclub.edublogs.org/

What lively and fun reading promotion is happening at that school!

Miriam also shared this link for icons for labels
http://icons.mysitemyway.com/category/glossy-black-icons/
and her Dewey labels are on the SLANZA wiki as an attachement at the bottom of this page http://slanzawiki.wetpaint.com/page/Dewey+Decimal+Classification

Dewey, signage and non-fiction

Here is an interesting article about the future of Dewey to classify non-fiction in public libraries.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6698264.html

A key aspect I take from this discussion is the importance of having good signage, and I think shelf guides with words on them do add a useful element for library users browsing for information...

Here are subject shelf guides in the non-fiction at Paihia School (click on the picture to enlarge it).