Genrefy your library

Genre-fy Your Library

Gaye Lynn Kuhn & Sarah HibbittsKeller ISD

Library Media/Technology Specialists

Why not genre-fy?

Why genre-fy?

Where are the mysteries?!?Where are

the scary stories?

How do I start?

Decide and commit

• Partial: choose favorites or most obvious genres

• Full: Label genre for every fiction book.

Choose Genres

labels/ roll of 500 7.99

Label protectors/1000 15.00

Buy Your Supplies

Wo/manpower priceless

Dive in!

• Partial: Pull lists from reports on system 650 subject headings

• Full: pull one full shelf at a time; label, change call number in system; return to shelf, ad nauseam.

*put sticker above or below spine label*call number: FIC RIO Fantasy or FIC PIL Humor

or change spine label Fantasy RIO

Helpful hints: I depended on CIP, Round Rock ISD ; any large public library catalog

• Sort genres and reshelve.

• Signage: • Genre Posters

• Wordle• Use ADVANCED to weight words and keep names together• Create a list in a word document so that you can copy and paste the

words.

Have a grand reveal for students (and staff):• Student/staff commercials to

“sell” their favorite genre• Scavenger Hunt• Sticker Reward per genre read

Reward yourself with an evening off and a good book!

Genre Types PowerPoint91 slides with definitions and examples of text

Freeclub lessons and powerpoints

Readerpants Lesson Many books could easily fall into more than one genre category. We turned this into a lesson for all our students by putting a sticky-note on those books, listing 2-3 genres we thought would fit best. We kept these books on a table with some pencils, and students in the library could read the book blurb and vote (on the sticky note) on which genre they thought it should be. Since the whole point of this project was to help students find books where they were looking for them, the genre receiving the most votes for that book was the one that stuck. This was also our sneaky little way to get students school-wide reading lots of different book blurbs 

Partial Genrefy from Mean Old Library Teacher: http://www.meanoldlibraryteacher.net/2010/12/genre-fying-my-school-library-part-one.htmlhttp://www.meanoldlibraryteacher.net/2010/12/genre-fying-my-school-library-part-two.html

Full Genrefy and color coding: http://readerpants.blogspot.com/2011/09/genre-fication-project.html

Wordle: www.wordle.net

Genre Types PowerPoint by Emily Kissner: http://www.slideshare.net/elkissn/fiction-genres

FreeClub Web: http://www.freeclubweb.com/powerpoints/languagearts/genres.html

Genre Posters : http://flashmedia.glynn.k12.ga.us/Goodyear.cfm?subpage=30133

Supplies: Demco.com

Round Rock ISD: https://www.roundrockisd.org

Resources

Presenters:

Keller ISD LM/T SpecialistsGaye Lynn Kuhn

[email protected] Hibbitts

[email protected]

Choices—Kuhn/Hibbitts

• adventure• classics• fantasy• graphic novel• historical fiction• humor• mystery• realistic fiction• scary• science fiction• sports• short stories